I love seminars.  Don’t you? And it’s not just because of the insider information that you get from it, but the people that you meet and re-meet who may just clinch the next deal for you. Really, you don’t know what you’ll get in those – sometimes it is the education (which is the reason [...]

I do not usually reprint what has been sent to me via press release, but when I saw the word “share” in this release from Andrea Woroch, I was suddenly reminded of the book Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.  What fragile memories we have, author  Robert Fulghum intimated, that we only [...]

And why only some?  Aren’t we all genetically predisposed to be the best that we can be? The answer, simply, is no.  Otherwise, no one would be successful.  And our journeys would all be, for lack of a better word, boring. Here are some speakers in the Money Summit 2011 who defied the odds and [...]

Those who are larger than life, and seemingly possessed with superpowers, are humans too, like the rest of us. This is what I learned when I engaged some of the speakers of the 2011 Money Summit in a conversation via Facebook messaging.  Some of them are downright funny (hilarious even), and all are inspired and [...]

An email ruined your day. It came from a particularly annoying customer whom you cannot please.  Cannot may even be an understatement.  You have done everything short of moving heaven and earth and yet he is unhappy.    The sun is hot, he says.  My cat is meowing, he cries.  The grass is greener on the [...]

Hubby likes men’s magazines and comic books and art books and Sun Tzu.  And that is perhaps the entire repertoire of stuff that he reads. So it was a surprise to me when he picked up my book -Able, one of the books sent to me for review (one of the more wonderful perks of [...]

  In making the ad that sells, it is not about you, or your product, or your company. Yes, branding is okay.  Being perceived as the expert, as trustworthy, is okay. Having a great product is okay – even great. But before all the smoke and mirrors, before the hype about your product and its [...]

Everyone is obsessed with time. It is both a cross and deliverance.  It flies and drags.  But like an illusion, it does not exist.  There is only now. But what do you do with your time? Like everyone else, you are probably not very good with it.  You probably spend at least 2 hours of [...]