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Success Principle 2 - Get More Effective Results by Sharpening Your Mind How many times a day do you feel like your time is being wasted? One of the most overlooked reasons for breakdowns in personal and business productivity is "right behind your eyes!" Too many times, our mind is in a fog with assumptions and convictions chattering away, thereby blocking your ability to listen with an open mind, think analytically about the information you have or need to get, and develop targeted solutions. Success Principle 1 - Get Your Business Vision Focused by Getting the Chaff Out! Ever sit in a meeting that is going nowhere? This is not the time to be going in circles or spending time arguing over what needs to be done—keeping things stalled. When this happens, it can usually be attributed to lack of Vision resulting in wasted resources. Companies are hungry for someone to give them a clear direction with a Vision they can sink their teeth into. Which Of These 3 Business Management Mistakes Are YOU Making? Are you looking for changes within your business organization? Are you wishing that things could be different? Wishing is merely the spark—it's the notion of getting a different result. If your business is dependent on your wishing, hoping, and praying, you may be making some mistakes. 4 Keys to Ending the Entrepreneurial Aloneness Blues As an entrepreneur, do you struggle with feeling along? I've found many of my clients dealing with the 'aloneness blues.' They're focused, they have vision, they have space, but they're still alone. They're often missing some critical elements. 5 Ways to be More Productive in Business When working from a home office, there's often a new set of distractions and interruptions. Let's look at some tricks for this environment--tricks that will help us to stay on track. Thankfulness Steps for Growing Your Business Did you know being grateful actually increases your results? Studies show that daily gratitude exercises resulted in higher levels of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, optimism and energy. People who used regular appreciation exercises made more progress toward personal goals. Let's look at 3 steps that can boost your success. Is It Time To Lose Your Luggage? Often times, I've found that how we handle our physical luggage is practically the same as how we handle our travel luggage. And there's a better way to handle our suitcases and our mental baggage. Explore with me how we can 'pack' so that we're more efficient. Small Business Acceleration - Be the Leader! Too many times our attitude is that our businesses are too small to need a leader. But too often we come unfocused and aren't growing our businesses the way we should. Here are some common challenges of small business. Break The Fright Cycle, Out-Smart The Business Ghouls Are you tired about all the news about the bad economy? All the bad things that are going to happen to you? Maybe it's time for you to take a walk in the woods. In other words, maybe it's time to focus on what you have control over. High Payoff Living - Keeping Your Vision Alive! As business owners, we're often looking for the step-by-step road map to how to get it all in focus and under control, and make more money. We give everything in our lives the same importance and the same priority. Except one thing... 3 Ways To Break Deadlocks on Your Team In your position as a leader, do you often view yourself as a referee on the grammar school playground during lunch break? Holding this image in your mind can help you calm the disputes and get everyone refocused on the elements that have broken down and led to the finger pointing. Lessons From Luggage - Plan Your Business's High Payoff Voyage Luggage, and how we use it, is a great reflection of how we live our business lives. We often carry the 'luggage' of our Know How and skills and use our resources through our business lives and are unaware of the results we get from our old ideas, old decision-making habits and old communication style. Here are some steps to ensure you're you're getting the best value out of what you're taking with you. Are You Practicing High Payoff Avoidance? You've heard many people talk about the natural and necessary progression from idea to decision to action. Their list consists of Hunger, Desire, Avoidance, Emergency. I've found them truly the most frequent triggers for action. I imagine you're familiar with them in your personal life. But, do you realize how they influence your actions in leading and managing your business? 3 Ways To Weather The Tough Times In Your Business Has your confidence by shaken by the economic news these past few weeks? Feeling like you don't have any control over what is going on in the world and how it may influence your business and personal lives? Are you looking down your 'pipeline' and everything looks dry? Here are several techniques you can use to fill your pipe-line, right now, when you've got that extra time on your hands. Business Systems Lessons from the ICU Using the assessment of 'business systems' in healthcare, let's look at the common challenges in business, no matter the industry. The NEW 80-20 Rule for Business? Are you using the 80-20 formula in your business? My private 80-20 formula: 80 percent of my time is on 'business' and 20 percent is on 'being fit and limber for business.' The irony in doing this is that my income has quadrupled and my responsibilities have spread, down, down, down. From strategist to file clerk. Maybe you're experiencing the same discovery? Business Lessons from the Lazy River Often times our businesses can be humming along so steadily that we forget to notice the changes we could make to enliven our workday daylight hours, and even to create High Payoff results for ourselves. Join me as I walk through observations of people on a lazy river. High Payoff Lessons from Delos, The Captain and Art Have you ever found yourself doing the 'pivot dance.' You know the one. You have the ball of one foot anchored to the ground as the other foot circles around it. You start to step forward, pause, turn back, pause, waver back and forth as you try to decide where you meant to go. Competing thoughts overload your brain until you have to stand still and laugh! Are you doing the 'pivot dance with your business? Make Antoni Gaudi's Secret to Success Your Own! One of my favorite times in my consulting and coaching is when a light bulb goes off and the person I'm working with has an 'ah ha!' moment and spots a new opportunity. It often takes some real in depth probing to uncover the high payoff idea that no one else has spotted. 90% of the time those ideas come your own personal passions and interests. Is Your Business Waiting For a Quake? If you haven't ever experienced an earthquake before, 20 seconds of the earth trembling beneath your feet can shake up your life! Sometimes it takes shocking external events in our lives to help us refocus on what's important. 1 Simple Action to Boost Your HIGH Payoff Life In our busy, busy lives, have we forgotten some of the simple courtesies? Do you regularly greet people you come into contact with a Hello? Maybe it's time to stop and pay more attention to the simple courtesy of greeting people. 5 Steps To Overcome Procrastination Problems with procrastination? Putting off those things that are so easy to do it later...or tomorrow...or next week. Sometimes it's easier to stay in our comfort zone, to create something new rather than deal with needs to be done. Procrastination seems to be an ongoing battle. How to Avoid the "Poof, Gone!" Syndrome - Use Systems That Work For YOU To be successful in business, you must have systems in place. There are lots of systems 'guaranteed' to work for you—everything from cute little cards that go in your shirt pocket, sophisticated computer systems that 'ding' to remind you of your next item on your calendar, and enormous expensive 'organizers' that every single thought, meeting and commitment are captured in. Let Me Reduce Your Stress! - Productivity Tips Are you as productive as you can be? Do you have focus to your activities? Let's be productive. Let's focus. Let's have a vision and use it everywhere with everyone. Let's include a plan and make sure it includes "who is doing what, by when?" And, key, let's put systems in place that you can use to train, evaluate and stabilize everyone's efforts. These 5 Steps Get "Low Payoff" Out of Your Life We each face the same issue when we're immersed in a topic or a challenge: We get lost in a forest of low payoff ideas that show up and lose sight of the High Payoff choices right in front of us. Successful leaders and managers don't escape from running into low pay-off opportunities, they're just very effective at keeping their attention on the High Payoff activities that will get them to the results they're set on. 3 High Payoff Tricks to Get Your Decisions Made! Still Stuck? Not making any progress on that To Do haunting you from the top of your list? Feel like the same ideas over and over? This sure gets in the way of coming up with new approaches to situations that are stalled. In fact, the end result of that 'helpful' mental activity is that we often give the available options no attention at all. Let's change your frame of reference. Bust OUT of "Stuck!" 3 Steps That Release Your Breaks! Do you find yourself full of new ideas, things being pushed to the back burner, decisions not getting made? Do you feel a sense of overwhelm to the point of inaction? Many times we are bombarded by more information, more ideas and more opportunity than we can follow through on - that's success! Check out my 3-step process to bust out of being stalled and overwhelmed. Step Up And Create Your High Payoff Meetings Are you facing so many competing issues that you can't figure out where to start: strategy, capabilities, products or services, and so on? Here are 3 quick tips to make your meetings more effective and productive, immediately. Cut Through Habits And Transform Your Business Set aside time every week to get your thinking stirred up. Linda shares 3 ways you can use 5, 10 and 15-minute increments to release the sparks to boost your results. The Perfect Argument - The True Secret to Winning! Here's a High Payoff technique you may never have thought of to shake up your thinking and boost your results. Up With The "P" Word! Use High Payoff Procrastination Today! Procrastination is an outward signal that the approach you are taking on a task may in fact be getting in the way of finding solutions. Instead of wasting hours, use it as a technique for leveraging the rest of your mind's ability to join in and solve things- sometimes much faster than expected. Seizing Opportunities - 3 Keys to Setting Yourself Up For Success As you look at last year, do you ever feel like there wasn't enough time in the day? Did entire afternoons...and sometimes days...slip by without your even noticing? Were you "too" busy? And when you look ahead this year, does it feel like you might relive that? Bust Out of "Stuck" 3 Steps That Keep you On Track Get a handle on the tug of war for your attention, or your future is at risk! You will always be bombarded by more information, more ideas and more opportunity than you can follow through on - that's success! As you keep your attention focused, you'll retain control over your attention and find each item is dealt with much faster than you had anticipated. In turn, you'll find the sensations of overwhelm and being 'stuck' will be gone!