Listening Like You Mean It
I Am Listening It is a Sunday morning at about 4:45 a.m. Like many of you, I do some of my best work when I wake up in the middle of the night. Listening to the silence around me helps me to concentrate. Sometimes it is very clear that I won’t fall right back to...
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Entrepreneur Coach Helps Your Vision
Entrepreneurs Can Lose Focus An entrepreneur coach does not need to know the particulars of how to run your business or profession. Instead a good business coach needs to know how to get the best out of you. When people find out I am a coach for entrepreneurs they...
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The Opportunity to Manage
It Is a Matter of Perspective Would you rather live a life of opportunities or a life sentence of obligations? Often people talk in terms of “having” to do something. When the reality is they actually “get” to do it. Think of those times when you hear a co-worker talk...
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Starbucks Coffee and Confidence
An Open Letter to Starbucks Dear Starbucks; The manager of that Starbucks store in Philadelphia really screwed up when she called 911 to make a report about the two African-American men sitting in her store not buying anything. Okay, now that we have stated the...
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Unshakable Confidence
I Will Not Lose My Confidence I went into the practice of law to help people. There was always something inside of me that made me feel that the justice system was weighted in favor of some while it was weighted unfairly against others. My confidence in the decision...
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Confidence Counts
Have Confidence In Yourself First It is difficult to see yourself as others see you. Having confidence that you are really as good as people tell you is something that has to be developed. It is part of creating a Culture of Confidence™. Do You Hear What I Hear?...
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Confidence in the Outcome Counts
Confidence Can Control the Result The fact that a person has very little confidence in the positive outcome of an event has a great deal to do with the outcome of that event. That statement seems evident and at the same time I encounter people almost every day who are...
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5 Elements Every Entrepreneur Encounters
Entrepreneur Success Rate Running a small business is no easy task. If it were easy everybody who started one would be a success. Instead, most small businesses don’t make it. Fifty percent fail in the first five years. Sixty percent fail in the first ten years. Those...
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Confidence in Hiring Is An Important Consideration
Confidence Should Start at Hiring Just the other night I was at a birthday party for one of the leading entrepreneurs in the St. Louis area. It was hosted at a friend of his house. The guest list included long-time friends and many business leaders. I will let you in...
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Steam Room Confidence
Confidence is Developed A man in the steam room at the gym asked me what I spoke about. I told him that I work with organizations that want their people to be confident, decisive and productive. I speak about creating a Culture of Confidence™. He asked me to expand on...
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