Many of the people I’ve talked to lately have either been so focused on their work they are losing site of other things or just down in general. On the radio this morning they were talking to the author of “The Book of Awesome” http://1000awesomethings.com/. It was such fun to hear them talk about becoming a regular at a restaurant or having a purchase total come out to a round number! These things are so little but they can make you happy for several minutes and change your attitude. The other day my daughter and I drove through town and hit every light green from Target to our house. We definitely celebrated for a couple minutes and she’s brought it up since! So as we sit here at the beginning of the third month of the year, if you were tasked to submit three things […] Continue reading
Brains Are Not For Picking
I do a lot of networking – like 24 hours a month. I meet many new people and some of them are really cool. My least favorite thing to hear when meeting a new person is, “I would love to pick your brain”. Yeah, I know. Now don’t get me wrong. When I first started my business I found this flattering. I would schedule coffee with the person, usually have to buy my own, sit and tell them the answers to many of their questions. They walked away feeling great about me and I knew I had helped someone. Go me. But over time I realized these people weren’t then sending me business or in some way returning the favor. Somehow they felt entitled to receiving free information and I had just done what I’m suppose to do. In fact the only referrals I got […] Continue reading
Do You Participate?
I had a wonderful opportunity today to speak to the Society of Human Resource Management group in Medina today. Â Tomorrow I will be speaking to a group from the Akron Chamber on LinkedIn. Â Last week I did a session with the Young Entrepreneurs Academy. Â In each session, you could clearly see who came for a reason and who came because they had to do so. Â And it got me thinking…. When you go to a meeting, why are you there? Â Do you know? Â Can you answer? Â I’m on the programming committee for the Medina Chamber and we plan speakers for meetings. Â There are those who believe the speaker topic is the reason people come out. Â One person told me attendance is largely driven by the weather and in bad weather people stay home. Â So does that mean a truly compelling topic would motivate them to […] Continue reading
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