June 15, 2009

Why Hire a Coach

I want to talk with you about one of the most impactful, powerful, and highest leverage things that you can do to make this year a success.I’m talking about something that all of the top performers in any field do. I’m talking about a coach. Someone in your life, whether it’s a mentor, a friend or I would actually recommend hiring and paying for a coach to help you live your life more prosperously.

There are two reasons why it’s so important to get a coach to help in achieving your professional and personal goals.

  1. We have found it’s impossible to be qualified to do something that you have never done, unless you get help. Albert Einstein said that we Read More...

June 12, 2009

Video – Malcolm Gladwell Interviewed on Success

Filed under: Reviews, Videos — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Freedom Personal Development @ 6:00 am

Best selling author, Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Pointand Read More...

June 11, 2009

WIIFM Referrals

What’s In It For Me, WIIFM, the basic biological fundamental radio station that most of us humans are tuned into throughtout the day. We hear Bryan Tracy, Zig, and Tony Robbins talk about how that is what our customers and prospects are thinking throughout our sales presentations and that we must tailor our talks to accomodate their needs. This seems to be true, at least in my experience, and today I was reminded of this principle in a big way.

I was having a conversation with a client about referrals. He had been having a terrible slump with getting referrals for the past 5 or 6 weeks. He had been asking most of the right questions, at pretty much the right times, and we were trying to dissect if maybe there Read More...

June 10, 2009

Free Resource: How to stickK to Your Commitments and Goals

We just found a super cool (and free) website/service that increases your accountability to your goals and commitments by allowing you to put a “contract” on yourself.  

The website is www.stickK.com and it is free to use.

You make a “Commitment Contract” with yourself and set the stakes as to what happens when you miss a check-in or your goal.

The Commitment Contract concept is based on two well known principles of behavioral economics:

1.  People don’t always do what they claim they want to do, and
2.  Incentives get people to do things

Here is how it works:

1 – Go to Read More...

June 9, 2009

Top 10 Referral Tips

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Referrals, referrals, referrals.  Every business professional knows how important referrals are.  With them you can work smarter, make more money and grow your business faster than any other method.

In today’s economy, referrals are vital to keep business rolling. 

For today’s Top 10 Tips Tuesday, we are going to focus on how to generate referrals.  What you should know and how to professionally cultivate more. 

 1. Ask for them outright. Explain what you do and say you’d like referrals.
The #1 reason people don’t get Read More...

June 8, 2009

What are Your Points of Passion

Filed under: Cultivating Passion and Significance — Tags: , , , , , — Freedom Personal Development @ 6:00 am

Not many things feel as good as experiencing the perfect day. You know the feeling, when everything seems to just go right. I know some of you reading this are thinking… “how about the perfect hour” that would be a good start. 

The thing about the perfect day that is important to understand is that they don’t happen by accident. Many times it seems like an accident, but in reality there are a couple of things that happen when everything just seems to go right.

For starters, the perfect day almost always has at least one, if not several moments that are highly Read More...

June 5, 2009

Video – The Book Google’s Leaders Recommend

In this video, Jim Kouzes visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book The Leadership Challenge. This event was part of the Leading@Google series.

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June 4, 2009

What Makes You Laugh Contest

The benefits of a good laugh are endless: it improves your attitude; decreases stress and depression; it is a workout for your abdominal muscles; it increases oxygen to the brain and your muscles; it strengths your immune system; and laughter makes you more attractive.

Here is an interesting fact for you: On average, adults laugh 15 times a day.  Children on the other hand, laugh over 400 times a day!! 

So, what makes you laugh? That is what we want to know for this month’s blog contest.

Enter by simply entering your name and email below with either: a link to a video, a joke, a picture, a story, part of a movie or a situation that cracks you up. We are Read More...

June 3, 2009

Your Things To-Do List: Where is Your Passion?

Filed under: Cultivating Passion and Significance — Tags: , , , , , — Freedom Personal Development @ 6:00 am

Until recently, I’ve spent much of my life occupying my time with small projects and a list of things to do that has kept me constantly busy. This process has become second nature and I’m quite good at playing the game of being organized and on top of things. Having this list provides a regular sense of accomplishment – crossing off items makes me feel I am making progress.

At the same time, this list also keeps a certain level of stress revving in the background; never quite accomplishing everything because I have so much to do and am so busy. I’m working from sun up to sun down. It can’t be helped. The real problem is these activities are just a big facade – a mask of busyness, Read More...

June 1, 2009

Contest Winners Announced for Best Business Book

The Freedom Team had a very difficult time narrowing down all of the books that were submitted for the Best Business Book Contest.  There were so many great ones to pick from AND a ton of great recommendations I know our team will be reading this summer.

I complied all of the entries so you can have an easy to reference ”to-read” list. One aspect of this list I found interested was that not all of the books submitted would be found in the business section of a book store, but the information in the books can be directly applied to your professional life.

The Best Business Books as Voted by our Read More...

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