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Dream It, Do It
The power of positive visualization is one of the most effective techniques to maximize your potential, to turbo-charge your efforts. Aaron Rodgers is quarterback of…
January 31, 2011“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefontaine How good do we have to be? How much is…
January 4, 2011Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!
Third in a series of blog posts urging, begging, pleading with you to turbo-charge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for the coming year! I think…
December 29, 2010Asking Effective Questions
Not all questions are created equal. An effective question is one that is – Open ended (difficult to answer yes or no), and – Requires…
December 21, 2010Wisdom on the Fly
I find quotations valuable because they can encapsulate wisdom. Life’s challenge is to DO as well as we KNOW; in the critical moment of decision…
December 20, 2010Lean and Hungry
Disque D. Deane passed away November 8, 2010, at age 89. Deane, a shrewd real estate investor who once controlled the GM Building on New…
December 6, 2010Simple Ideas, Complex Execution
The secrets to success often lie in plain sight. They are secrets only because we chose to overlook them. Sometimes the most mundane can serve…
November 30, 2010To Know and Not Do Is To Not Know
I sometimes lead a short personal leadership course for the incoming real estate grad students at the University of Florida. I often tell them the…
November 11, 2010Mental Muscles
About 6 o’clock one recent Saturday morning I went downstairs and did a few reps on a Nautilus machine. The longer I live, the more…
November 9, 2010The Courage to Lead: I’m Still a Work in Progress, Always Will Be
For a long time I was reluctant to engage in certain forms of leadership. The straight business side, such as goal setting, planning, and directing…
November 2, 2010Feedforward
Feedforward is in contrast to feedback. Feedback often focuses on what people have done wrong in the past. Thus it frequently engenders emotional resistance as…
October 27, 2010