What Do You Want?

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re hungry. Your tummy is growling, a headache is galloping toward you, your mood is having more ups and downs than a carnival roller coaster, and the idea of eating is eclipsing all other thoughts.
Imagine, for a moment, that you race into the kitchen, throw open the fridge and devour [...]

The Most Humiliating Thing I’ve Ever Done!

Actually, I’ve done so many humiliating things that it’s hard to keep track of them all. But this doozy tops the humiliate-her chart!
My main motive for sharing the single most humiliating experience of my entire professional
career is this…
Having already completely and publicly mortified myself, I might as well make certain it wasn’t a wasted experience.  [...]

SHRINK TO FIT: Playing Small Isn’t Playing at All

Here comes some tough love:
You are never, ever, ever, going to fit in! And that is “a cause for celebration, not an apology”. You will never make anyone completely happy: that is not your job, it is theirs. Therefore, the only person who can absolutely, positively, be happy with who you are, with what you [...]

FEAR: The number one reason you don’t have what you want

There are a multitude of reasons we fail to turn our brilliant ideas, our intellectual capital into actionable items and bottom line results.
The two biggies are, predictably, fear (90%) and timing (10%). Everyone experiences fear. “Getting It Done” people have the identical fears as the “Talking it to Death” folks. And the quantity of fear [...]

Pink Is The New ….. You!

I double dare you to watch this video without moving your hiney…..

See, I told you you couldn’t do it. Now pass it on and make somebody’s day!

To All The Kids Who Survived The 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

If anyone knows who wrote this gem of a piece, would you let me know so that I can give credit where it’s due? Thanks!
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don’t
read anything else, please read what he said.
Very well stated, Mr. Leno.
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First, we survived [...]

Courage is a decision we make every day.

To be more precise, it’s a decision we make every moment.
There are actually two kinds of courage: instinctive and deliberate. Instinctive actions are, well, instinctive….. like rescuing a child from a burning building or helping a disabled person who’s confronted by a mugger.
Deliberate courage, on the other hand, is an attitude or a frame of [...]

Integrity: When You Do What You Say You're Going to Do

There are few days as celebratory as when I adopted both of my children. Yesterday wasn’t in that category but it was a close runner up in the special department. My first book, Impact! What Every Woman Needs to Know to Go From Invisible to Invincible! was born. As in, delivered. To Microsoft: A spectacular [...]

Entrepreneurs Can Change the World

It’s been almost seventeen years since I went into business for myself. At the time, one of the local banks had launched an ad campaign apparently geared to attract small business owners. Join me, for a moment, as I try to paint as accurate a picture of this ad as I possibly can.
The backdrop of [...]

Marketing and Selling Fun

Fun is a state of mind. In particular, yours. Just ask any 4 year old— although you won’t necessarily find the same thing funny as your little one, watching him or her laugh hysterically over something obviously not-funny will be funny to you.
Fun is where you find it. But that requires looking for it, doesn’t [...]

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