Relationships

Positive People: Start Sharing and Watch Your Business/Life Grow

January 16, 2015 ♦

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Is Sharing a Key to Success? It’s no coincidence that the happiest people I network with online are the biggest sharers and likers online. One person in particular Likes and Retweets more than she Tweets. She’s great and it’s the intent of her sharing that matters. Another woman I know is very…

Dreamers and Directors – Discover a Powerful Partnership (revised)

August 27, 2014 ♦

Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships

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Identify and then Compensate for your Weaknesses If you’re an entrepreneur, you should know what your strengths and weaknesses are. Maybe you’re taking courses or psychotherapy or something to try to fix your weaknesses and failings. And then you discover that you can’t do much to alter your basic makeup or…

Twitter Tips – Taking it to the Next Level

August 12, 2014 ♦

Career, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Social Media, Work

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There’s Lots of Ways to Make Twitter more Effective Twitter has had its 8th birthday this year and it’s still going strong. It’s the top microblogging platform and millions of businesses use it. Whether they use it well is another matter. It can be a great way to connect with…

Motivating Others May be the Greatest Power You Possess

July 20, 2014 ♦

Career, Entrepreneurship, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Uncategorized, Value Proposition, Work

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What Motivates Key People in Your Life? If you haven’t the foggiest idea of what motivates people, it will be virtually impossible for you to get the best work, effort, and outcomes with them. People are motivated by different values – their value system. That set of values, which very…

Why Generation Y is So Important

March 27, 2014 ♦

Career, Entrepreneurship, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Work

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Generation Y is the biggest, most interesting topic of our time. Don’t doubt it. This sort of generational thing has happened before. And business, investment, politics, culture and everything else flowed out of that change 46 years ago. Future Shock In 1969, a Montrealer named Alvin Toffler wrote a top…

Prospecting: Choose Your Customers Wisely

March 23, 2014 ♦

Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Work

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Years ago, launching my first startup, an Internet marketing consulting business, I targeted top notch International clients (not Canadian). Yes, an amateur, but for my first business, it was a fairly decent success. I did what I was passionate about with a vision of the CEO/CMO I wanted to attract.…

Generation Y – Positives and Negatives (updated)

March 13, 2014 ♦

Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships

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Gen Y and Their Marriage to Technology isn’t all what it seems Generation Y will make up a big chunk of the employed population and very soon they’ll shape our work environment. Researchers are gathering more insight into this generation. I’ll have a series of posts on Gen Y. Their…

Progressive House Vocal Songs + Lyrics

January 10, 2014 ♦

Entertainment, Progressive House Music, Relationships

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(It’s sometimes tough to understand the vocals, so I thought I’d put them in for you. Hear more progressive house music.) Calvin Harris – I’ll be Thinking about You If I told you, that this couldn’t get better baby And your heartbeat, it lets me know you feel the same I…

Blood Groove & Kikis & Roald Velden

January 8, 2014 ♦

Entertainment, Progressive House Music, Relationships

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A couple of easy listening melodic songs beginning with some nice videos. Roald Velden – Complicated

Success for Women. Why is that Still Novel?

January 2, 2014 ♦

Career, Networking, Relationships, Self-Improvement

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This is part of a segment on entrepreneurialism, a reality we’ll all have to come to grips with as our economy evolves. Most of us will live at a much lower level of happiness, freedom and wealth than we deserve. And as the (20%) rich get richer faster, and everyone…

Shakespeare

December 24, 2013 ♦

Relationships

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Creative Exploration – Open Your Mind for Discovery

October 21, 2013 ♦

Creativity, Relationships, Self-Improvement

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Beauty Is In the Eye of the Beholder Many years ago, I visited the Glenbow Museum in Calgary (it’s right in downtown Calgary on 8th Avenue. It’s a unique gallery and I highly recommend it). Just inside, in the main foyer, they had a large oil painting on the wall.…