I’m recently (and still, it seems) recovering from a hamstring issue. It’s healing, slowly, but healing nonetheless. Sunday, I decided to test it out with an eight mile, progression run (gets faster each mile). Normally, an eight mile run is not a big deal. Unfortunately, I had not been that far in two months. While all in all, the run went well, there were a few middle miles when it… Read More »Back to Basics Works (Again)
The famous words of Scarlett O’Hara in the final moments of Gone With The Wind have been the anchor for procrastinators everywhere: “I’ll worry about that tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day.” Some things, as we know, are better left for another day. SOMETIMES, the best thing to do is to put off until tomorrow…. So, with the help of Success magazine, Psychology Today and the people at Creative… Read More »Postive Procrastination
Contrast. You know, contrast, like up/down, in/out, day/night/ black/white. Contrast gets our attention. In fact, contrast is what separates one salesperson from another. I’ve read two books recently that focus on the importance of contrast in sales (although neither were necessarily focusing on sales), Neuromarketing by Patrick Renvoise and Resonate by Nancy Duarte. In Neuromarketing, Renvoise discusses the brain and how people make decisions. He says that only six stimuli… Read More »Contrast: A Not So Hidden Secret
The headlines this morning were: Travel Bans Lifting, Big Storm Not As Big As Forecasted. Really? The biggest storm in the history of the universe did not come to fruition? Snowageddon didn’t actually occur? I am, in the words of Kramer’s ever poignant lawyer Jackie Chiles, “Shocked and Chagrined. Stupefied and Mortified!” Actually I am not. In a world where the media will do anything to capture the public’s attention, over… Read More »Is Attention Worth Dishonesty?
A great journalist and entertainer, Stuart Scott, died after a seven year fight with cancer Sunday morning. He was 49 years old. My sons grew up with Stuart. He was their introduction to sports from a perspective to which they could relate. He was different, he was fun, he was COOL. Stuart Scott was more than cool, however, he was a leader. He was a Black leader in a business… Read More »Five Leadership (and Life) Lessons From Stuart Scott.
Occasionally life and work can become amazingly simple. A goal(s) can make things clearer. Sometimes all we’d like to do is get/be better. Fortunately, there is a pretty simple three step process to achieve that and it was given to us by Tony Robbins. First, if you want to be better, you have to have a higher standard. If you want to be “better” then yesterday’s expectations, yesterday’s standard, must… Read More »A Better Life: Two Minute Tip 25
It’s been awhile but the Two Minute Tip is back with Tip 24: two (well, three) new technology additions from Apple, a joke (hilarious) and a call for tip topics. Enjoy….
Yesterday marked the halfway point of the year. It’s halftime so to speak. So, how’s the game going so far? You winning? Losing? Not keeping score? While it’s a pretty good idea to consistently monitor your goals throughout the year, halftime is a logical time for an in-depth check and maybe some tweaking, restructuring or ditching. Some of your goals are right on the money. You’ve done the work and… Read More »It’s Halftime: Tip 22
The real estate business is high pressure, high anxiety, high stress, not to mention a lot of work. To be able to function at your best: to be practicing what we like to call full engagement, takes it’s own special kind of effort. So with your permission, let’s talk about your LIFE! To be at your best, you have to be….well…. At your best. There are a plethora of areas… Read More »Butting Into Your Life: Tip 21
This is the Monopod. It is a lightweight, sturdy single-legged camera support that offers relief from arm fatigue while steadying the camera for sharper capture and accurate framing. It is great for shooting that selfie you can’t resist or that BombBomb video you send to your latest lead (more on BombBomb next week). They run around $15-40, mine was fifteen and is awesome. You can find them anywhere on google… Read More »Tip #18: The MonoPod