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2010 What Ifs

January 6, 2010

A preview to my San Antonio Business Building Boot Camp, January 13, 2010:
One of the things I love about Twitter is the ability to connect and speak with people I never would have met otherwise. This week I had the fortunate experience of speaking with two super-intelligent business owners: Patty Farmer of Envoy Mortgage & [...]

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Beach Houses And Business Planning

December 28, 2009

When you started your business, did you do it because you wanted to work 80 hours a week? When you took the plunge, was it your hope that you would never see your family? Did you want to lose sleep, lose hair and make Tums your own personal food group? Of course not.
Most small business [...]

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It’s Easy To Be Extraordinary

December 21, 2009

I went to a Christmas bazaar and there was a table full of jewelry goodies. In fact, there were a couple of tables with jewelry goodies. But I stopped at this one because of the woman’s smile. She was engaging without being sales-y:  she asked about me, whether or not I was ready for Christmas [...]

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How To Create An Irrelevant Brand

December 9, 2009

None of us ever wakes up, looks in the mirror and says, “Today, my goal is to be irrelevant.” When you go to a networking event or a Tweetup you don’t introduce yourself by saying “Hi. My name is Rose Pineda. I’m a mortgage lender with Mortgages Are Us and I’m irrelevant.” Of course not!
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Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein And Sheryl Crow

December 2, 2009

If you want to succeed, you better commit this quote to memory: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Now, you can decide if you want to be on “Team Ben” or “Team Al,” because no one seems to be quite sure if Benjamin Franklin or [...]

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Vampires Friends And Sales

October 29, 2009

So I’ve got a couple of friends who are emotional vampires. Take “Sherry” for example. We started out as great friends! We’d laugh together, shop together, support each other and just hang out. Something started changing though. Sherry started having drama in her life. Serious drama. This happened, that happened and “it’s so terrible.” Over [...]

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Is Winning Everything

October 20, 2009

October, 1996, an upset happened in the boxing world that no one expected. Heavy-weight champion Evander Holyfield hit Mike Tyson, knocked him out and Evander won the much anticipated match.The media, the fans and Mike all asked for a rematch. They got it on June 28, 1997.
It was a $100 million rematch. We had [...]

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Please Dont Like Me

September 17, 2009

This is one of my favorite scenes from the movie “Ocean’s Eleven.” This is where Rusty (played by Brad Pitt) is instructing the newbie Linus (Matt Damon) how to con the casino owner.

Ever felt that way?
Just like Rusty, well-meaning people in your life will tell you what you need to do to be successful. “Do [...]

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Are You Being A Zax

September 11, 2009

As a child, you might recall reading the Dr. Seuss story called “The Zax” in which two Zax found themselves coming from opposite directions only to come face to face; neither of them were willing to budge or to change. As one Zax stated “For I live by a rule that I learned as a [...]

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The Secondary Guest at Disney World

August 18, 2009

August 17, 2009 (Day 1) – 5:35 pm
This was the first day of formal training in the Disney Institute program. We are getting a behind-the-scenes peek at what Disney does that makes them so successful. After six hours of training, it is a little difficult for me to decide which golden nugget I should write [...]

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