Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

Vincent T. Lombardi

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Start A Company; It's Your Only Hope Of Living The Life You Want

Quitting your job may not be as risky as it seems. You should have done what you wanted a long time ago!

You've done what you were supposed to do. You graduated high school. You may have gone to a great college and even graduated with decent grades. You landed your first job and were then promoted. Maybe even multiple times!

You now are making decent money—more money than you ever thought you'd make. You're married and now have responsibilities – kids, a mortgage, parents who may outlive their savings.

But you're not living the life that you envisioned. The great job that you worked so hard for years and years to put yourself in the position to get is now your jail.

The Philosophical Quandary Of Work-Life Balance

Experts of all stripes offer tips on how to rethink the work-life juggle and escape stress. Here's why doing so is nearly impossible.

Make Your Employees Motivated Missionaries

As your company grows, you can't plan for revenue growth alone. You need to plan for leadership and culture growth as well. Here's how Stella & Dot does it.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says,"I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

Jim Rohn

Have a great week everyone and stay positive!

Motivational Tips 2

Make a Commitment to Succeed

You have to take ownership and be responsible for your life. If you truly want things to be better then you are the best chance you have for positive life changes.

Don't limit your dreams

If you knew you couldn't fail, what would you want for your life? If you want to live a great life then you should dream big dreams and set goals to make them come true.

Get Excited

You have so much to look forward to. Become inspired as you imagine living your ideal life.

Motivational Tips 1

Avoid Negative Self Talk

Eliminate words such as never, can't, impossible, failure, stupid, and no from your vocabulary. Whether you realize it or not - you constantly feed yourself messages all day long. The more you can avoid negative self talk the more optimistic and confidence you can become.

Walk Tall

Hold your shoulders back, stay alert, and walk with even confident strides. Your body language reflects your thinking and vice versa. Have you ever noticed someone who is overwhelmed or tired? You can see the signs their body language. They are slower and lack energy. You get the idea.

Expect Positive Things to Happen

You experience what you think about most.Therefore, forward thinking with positive expectations is what you will get or backward thinking with negative expectations is what you will get. You chose.

A Story About Motivation

I was walking back to our apartment in Manhattan, the hood of my jacket pulled tight to keep the rain out, when I saw an older man with a walker struggle to descend the slippery stairs of his building. When he almost fell, I and several others went over to help.

There was an Access-A-Ride van (a Metropolitan Transit Authority vehicle for people with disabilities) waiting for him. The driver was inside, warm and dry, as he watched us straining to help his passenger cross the sidewalk in the pouring rain.

Then he opened the window and yelled over the sound of the rain coming down, "He might not be able to make it today."

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire and intent on going broke."

Brendan Francis

Have a great and fabulous weekend everyone!

Why Oprah Admires Lady Gaga

This video shows the side of Lady Gaga that WE NEVER SEE ON STAGE! Watch this video and listen to Lady Gaga's message to all of us, I GUARANTEE YOU IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF!

After interviewing Grammy-winning superstar Lady Gaga for the first time in 2010, Oprah says she developed a deep appreciation and respect for what Lady Gaga does and who she is. Watch as Oprah describes the backstage moment she and Lady Gaga shared. Plus, find out why Oprah believes this inspirational artist is living the life she's meant to live.

How Honoring Your Calling Feeds Everything in Your Life

After meeting Donna, a woman who devoted her life to rocking sick or abandoned babies, Oprah realized that if you use your life to serve the world, you will find that it also serves you.

What Oprah Knows For Sure About Finding Your Calling

It won't always make you famous or even pay the bills, but your job in life is to discover who you were meant to be. Oprah knows one thing for sure about finding your calling: Sometimes the calling is just a whisper, and when you begin to honor that whisper, you end up being the best you can be.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."

Mark Caine

10 Questions That Create Success

Want help focusing on what really matters? Ask yourself these on a daily basis. Think that success means making lots of money? Think again.

Pictures of dead presidents have never made anybody happy. And how can you be successful if you're not happy? And buying things with that all money isn't much better. A new car, for instance, might tickle your fancy for a day or two–but pride of ownership is temporary.

Real success comes from the quality of your relationships and the emotions that you experience each day. That's where these 10 questions come in.

6 Mantras For Business Success

These six mantras help keep me focused, and help keep my business sailing along, no matter what the day brings. I’ve founded two companies and co-founded two others, but some days, I still feel like I never know what’s going to hit me next. Luckily, I’ve found a few simple mantras that help me stay steady even when things get ridiculously hairy. Some have more to do with business, and others are more about the personality and mindset I need to bring to the business. They all help me cut through the mental clutter and uncertainty that can come with entrepreneurship.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

Tom Blandi

15 Characteristics Correlated With Success

What makes one person successful while another flounders? While luck will always play a role, there are a number of personality factors that can also be a big part in helping individuals get ahead, whether it's in school, work, or their personal lives. Though there is no one recipe for a successful life, there are some characteristics that are found in many people who've made it big in one way or another. If you're looking to stand out from your peers at work or in your college years, consider honing the characteristics we've listed here. Many are strongly correlated with success, but even if they don't lead you to a corner office they will make you a better, stronger, and possibly even happier person, which is well worth anyone's time to pursue.

How To Live As Long As The Rich

A recent study released in the U.K. revealed that the gap in life expectancy between the rich and poor is widening. At age 65, men in the highest socio-economic group are living, on average, 3.5 years longer than those in the lowest socio-economic group. Twenty years ago, this difference in life expectancy was just 2.3 years.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"Life is an attrition. You feel sorry when you lose something precious and you feel happy when you lose something irrelevant."

Dr. Pete Ong

If You're An Average Worker, You're Going Straight To The Bottom

The way we do business is changing fast and in order to keep up, your entire mentality about work has to change just as quickly.

Never Be Late Again: 6 Simple Steps

Nobody likes to be late. It's stressful and can trash your rep as a responsible, competent leader or employee. But for some of us, tardiness is a tough habit to break. I spoke to Julie Morgenstern, author of "Time Management from the Inside Out" about how to make being prompt your new way of life. Figure out which of these 6 tips works for you -- and you may never be late again.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Lou Holtz

What Oprah Knows For Sure About Finding Your Calling

It won't always make you famous or even pay the bills, but your job in life is to discover who you were meant to be. Oprah knows one thing for sure about finding your calling: Sometimes the calling is just a whisper, and when you begin to honor that whisper, you end up being the best you can be.

America's Money Class with Suze Orman - Money Secrets Revealed (FULL EPISODE)

Class #1: Money Secrets: Erase your debt forever; steps to buy a home; what to know if you're losing your home.

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Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."

Merle Miller

Web Goes On Strike!

January 18th, 2012 is the largest online protest in history, to stop the internet censorship bills, SOPA & PIPA. Join in by blacking out your site and urging everyone you can reach to contact Congress now.

Internet Set For Wednesday Shutdown

Wikipedia, Reddit, and a host of other popular sites are gearing up for a total blackout on January 18 in protest of the controversial anti-piracy legislation.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars."

Frederick Langbridge

11 Businesses You Can Start in Your Pajamas in 2012

If you're looking for some ideas on what home based business to start, check out this article! Let your innovative and creative juices start flowing!

Mark Cuban's 12 Rules For Startups

Anyone who has started a business has his or her own rules and guidelines, so I thought I would add to the memo with my own. My "rules" below aren't just for those founding the companies, but for those who are considering going to work for them, as well.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you."

Zig Ziglar

How I Became a Customer for Life

When my family was in crisis, one company came through for us. It changed my feelings about the company & about customer service in general. I'm fortunate enough to work with some of the greatest experiential brands in the world. My clients across a range of industries—travel, sports, theater, tourism, arts—live and die by offering incredible service and understanding the value of going "above and beyond" for customers. So I thought I had seen it all when it came to incredible customer service.

Will That Prospect Buy From You?

Once trust is established, a potential customer is far more likely to buy. There few piece of information more valuable in selling than knowing whether or not a particular prospect is likely to buy from you. Most of the time, however, you can tell whether or not a prospect is “hot” based upon how that particular prospect got into your sales pipeline.

Have A Great Weekend Everyone!

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money Is Sexy...Sell The Sexiness, Not The Price

You know you are going to talk about price -- you know that it is first and foremost on the buyer's mind and yet we avoid it like we avoid someone to whom we lost a college football rivalry bet.

You have to move the discussion from your product/service/solution and its price to their financial outcome. The most effective sales people are able to discuss price outside of the context of their own competitive market and in the context of the real numbers of the decision-maker's business. The best sales people see all dollars spent by their customers as investments made in changing the customer's business outcome.

Who Are You And Why Are You Hiding From Customers?

"Please do not respond to this e-mail, this account is not monitored."

"I'm sorry I am unable to assist with your request. May I suggest you consult our online help center, where you will find answers to many common questions."

"Sincerely,
Acme Customer Care"

What's wrong with this note, besides everything? The thing that bugs me even more than the complete lack of assistance (which most customers have sadly come to expect) is the "anonymity barrier" -- an unsigned note with no contact person and no way to reply.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

Muhammad Ali

The 6 Best Words In Customer Service

Two comedians can tell the exact same joke, with the same timing, and one will have people rolling in the aisles while the other will get blank stares and an awkward golf clap. The joke itself may not even be funny, but the difference can come down to a single word choice. The same can be said for customer service -- the delivery often determines the reaction.

How To Focus On Prospects -- Not Prices

We all fight price. The China price, the internet price, the sharpen-your-pencil-or-lose-the-business price. It is relentless for many of us in the marketplace. The pressure to focus on price above all other things is one of the most exhausting parts of developing new client relationships.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it's successful outcome."

William James

Make Customers Want You More By Needing You Less

Every good company knows that you can never do too much to make customers happy. But "too much" shouldn't be thought of by its literal, quantitative definition. In fact, in many ways, true service success can often be measured by how little you interact with customers. Or perhaps put a better way, how little they need you.

6 Small Talk Ninja Skills For The Socially Challenged

Every time I turn around, there are potentially awkward situations for small talk. Get-togethers, cocktail hours, new coworkers at lunch, etc. - the small talk opportunities are everywhere. If you find yourself less than excited about these encounters, here are a few tips to help.

Inspirational Quote Of The Day

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

Martha Washington

The 5 Essential Functions Of A Great Boss

Great business owners become great based on their actions. Intentions are meaningless. Words are important. Results are everything.

How To Be The Master Of Your Cash

"How do I manage my cash while focusing on all the other things I need to manage?"

Motivation Down? Take On A Rival!

If your motivation or enthusiasm is on the wane, sometimes a rival is just what you need -- even if your "competition" is completely one-sided and imaginary.

8 Tips To Get Your Great Ideas Acted Upon

Great holiday party themes, starting a recycling program, changes to the compensation system, ways to expand the business globally...regardless of the category of idea or the scale, you've probably had a great idea somewhere along the way that never got heard, despite valiant attempts. That's because you were probably thwarted by the "Idea Vampires," those people who reject your brilliant insights, and for any number of reasons. In order to get heard, you have to learn how to work with these people to move your idea from concept to action.