When I first start working with a client who wants to take their business on the internet, my first question is “What’s Your Why.” We all have a main reason why we blog, or sell products and/or services via the internet. But before you write another blog, before you put up your first or your […]
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8 Simple Strategies to Nurture Your Online Brand
This post was most recently updated on February 3rd, 2013It is my pleasure to introduce you to my blogging friend Marquita Herald. Marquita is a personal growth specialist, a “Top 50 Personal Development Blog Award” recipient for IGG-Tips, Tools & Tantalizing Ideas, and the published author of 4 books on the art of living your […]
How I Became A Techie In 20 Minutes
This post was most recently updated on January 26th, 2013My readers know by now I am not a technical person. Heck, I have to ask someone to put in a plug in on my blog because I just don’t have that kind of mind! I have a good friend, Kimberly Castleberry, who is one of […]
Things Go Wrong
What is “personal development” anyway? To some degree, it involves growing through adversity instead of shrinking from it. I want to share what happened to me last week when EVERYTHING went wrong! It started when people were telling me that they couldn’t comment on my blog. I checked it out and I could […]
The Voice Of Freedom – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This post was most recently updated on February 22nd, 2014Today, we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous “I have a dream speech.” I was 8 years old when this happened and was so impressed by Dr. King. As an innocent child, he made all the sense in the world to me. What […]
Balancing Act Of An Online Entrepreneur
There Is A Balancing Act Of An Online Entrepreneur If you are an internet marketer, network marketer or some other type of online entrepreneur, you may find it a bit of a struggle to balance all the various tasks on a daily basis. Conducting business online is different than most real world jobs and careers. […]
Mastermind Groups
For the past two months, I have met with a group of people on Google+ Hangouts. We first met in a blogging community and ended up getting to know one another so well, it evolved into a mastermind group. We started out introducing ourselves and revealing what we were doing on a weekly basis […]
REVERSING NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
Everyone gets stuck from time to time, not quite mustering the energy they need to push forward with their job, relationship or project. This is often just a little bump in the road, a rut or a brief detour. But sometimes it can take you down a dead end, and totally terminate your journey. Negative […]
Is It Crazy To Talk To Yourself?
This post was most recently updated on January 17th, 2013 My mother used to walk me quickly through the subway station so I wouldn’t be exposed to the “crazy” people talking to themselves. Get on the D-train, but they were still there. She’d move our seat. Get a transfer uptown, get out and walk […]
How To Condition Yourself
We all hit those roadblocks where we find ourselves overloaded. Sometimes we lose energy and burn out from completing even our simplest daily tasks. We may even lose our desire for success. Once that happens, you’ll find an instant drop in your self-confidence level. To prevent this downward spiral, there is a solution: Condition Yourself! […]
Success Quotes
My last post was about “Fear of Success” and I wanted to list some quotes from great people for you to ponder. Quotes sometimes can be affirmations. Weather you have a fear of success or not, the following quotes are some food for thought. If one particular quote speaks to you, use it as a […]
Fear of Success
It’s not uncommon for me to consult with a client hampered by a “fear of success”. Your knee-jerk reaction could likely be this… “What? Why wouldn’t anyone want success?” But so many people this tendency, that I wanted to address the issue. Why would a person reject success, so much so, that they actually fear […]