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Moron Alert! Moron Alert!
I believe in my fellow man, that the world is inherently good, and that things will always get better, even with all of its troubles. But sometimes, I wonder. As a Master Business Coach, it is my job to be an architect of attitude. It’s my job to believe in the many possibilities and opportunities…
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Size Doesn’t Matter
I see it all the time, nearly every day. When I work with business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives, we discuss employee performance issues, and the conversation and blame always turns to all the reasons and excuses for their poor performance. I get paid, as a Master Business Coach, to help organizations, large and small, solve…
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Thanks For Calling
I would rather be infested with fleas, bed bugs, cooties and head lice than have to deal with another spam phone call! I’m sick of it. I’m on all the “no call” lists, and I still get nearly 20 calls a day from robot callers, call center solicitors, or pitch men. We even pulled our…
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Fear of Change – Change Can Be Good
by Dr. Ormond L. Wimberly, Jr., PhD After twenty-five years of separation, Ralph and Ken had renewed their relationship at their high school reunion. They lost contact after high school. Ken didn’t take long to notice that Ralph hadn’t made any shift from high school to life. He hadn’t matured in twenty-five years. How does…
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The Truth About Trust
The truth about trust is that it is tough to earn and very easy to lose. I don’t know who said it, but a person very experienced in the emotions of broken trust said, “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” More than at any other time in the history…
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Your Attitude Sucks
I practice observation. I have trained myself to see everything or at least try to. I look for the little nuances in a person’s behavior, body language, and vocal tone. They can tell you a lot if you look for it. They can tell us if someone is happy, sad, mad, frustrated, mean, or kind.…
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A Rare Sighting
I had the rare opportunity to observe a remarkable event the other day. While some people get giddy over the sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker, I people-watch. I’m obsessed with it. Last week, I made the rarest of sightings. I saw a family of four dining in a restaurant, talking with each other. They were…
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Extinct Species
We’ve all had our “Oooh, squirrel” moments—you know, those times when we lose total focus on what we are doing to focus on something that is just a distraction. In one of those recent moments, I found myself thinking about extinct species: the woolly mammoth, the saber-toothed tiger, the dodo bird, Hollywood Video stores, Kodak,…
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Enough Already
I have no tolerance for whiners! No tolerance at all. These people moan and groan about all the reasons their life isn’t better. They blame everything and everyone: their age, their income, their education, their gender, their family background, lack of education, the government, the president, the Channel Five weather guy, bullies, and spouses. Enough…
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Adding By Subtracting: Via Negativa
Much has been written throughout time about the elements that will move us to real success. We are constantly beaten over the head and virtually bombarded with information about the power of positive thinking, the value of mindset, the necessity of goal setting, and umpteen ways to be motivated. But I’m always looking for more.…
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