Making the Most of Your Time

 

Don’t Give Up on December 2011!

Give up

Are you “in it to win it” or are you ready to give up on your goals for 2011? As we near the end of the year, you may be thinking to yourself that you haven’t accomplished everything you’ve wanted to. Maybe you don’t have

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Create Your Perfect Network!

Network

Yesterday, I was at a networking event, and I was discussing “Your Competitive Edge”  tips with Person X.  They said to me: “Jos, the tips sound great, but I’m curious as to who is reading them.  Who is in your community?” Amazingly, this was the

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Plan to Have FUN!

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When I was coming home from my honeymoon, I looked at my husband, Scott, and said, “So, what’s next?” Scott said, “Are you crazy? We’re still paying off the wedding” … lol… and don’t worry; the marriage didn’t end there. Instead, Scott and I had

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Do 1 More Thing THIS WEEK!

Calendar

Yogi Berra, a former American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder and manager, once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The question then becomes what’s not over for you yet?   What do you still need to powerfully complete before the end of this week?

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Stop Settling for Anything Less than AWESOME!

Derek

“You don’t just accidentally show up in the World Series.” -Derek Jeter, American baseball shortstop and five-time World Series champion If you want to get known as “The Best in Class” in whatever you do, you have to be intentional.  You can’t just wait to

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The Secret to Being BEST in CLASS

HOLTZ

Lou Holtz, retired American Football Coach, once said, “I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing, and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team.” Coaching people in the sports world is no different

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Tell Me the Books You Read, and I’ll Tell You Your Likelihood of Success!

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Christopher Morley once said, ”Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking.” In other words, continually develop yourself into The BEST Professional you can be by seeking out knowledge from many different sources. Go out of

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Bye, Bye Reasons…Hello Results!

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale once said,  “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” Now think about the 3 most important goals you want to accomplish this week.  Take about 2 minutes and write them down now.  Next, write down your

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Trust Yourself to Succeed

Career Success

Maxwell Maltz was quoted as saying, “You are generally underestimating your own abilities and overestimating and exaggerating the nature of the difficulty before you.”   If you don’t trust in your ability to succeed, no one else will either. You project what is going on

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Stay Connected

Lost Connections

Just because you’re in transition, does NOT mean that you warp into some theoretical dreamland and leave humanity.  Au contraire, career transition is the best time to both connect and reconnect with people you know or want to know better.  Specifically, I would recommend doing

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