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Are Eeyore Vampires Invading Your Work? Deal with Negative People without Becoming One

It’s challenging enough for most of us to do more with less at work as we’re all forced to do in this economy. But when Eeyore Vampires—negative people—invade, the dark shadows take over. I refer to negative people as “Eeyore Vampires” because just like Winnie the Pooh’s friend, Eeyore, negative people respond to most everything with “It’ll never work.” They are “Vampires” because these negative people morph at sunset into creatures who fly around your thoughts and suck time, energy, and attention away from enjoying your family and friends.

Primary topic: Leadership

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The Profitability of “Thank You”—Three Great Ways to Give Thanks from Your Business

Study after study in which we say “Thank you” to our customers reveals that they both spend more money with us and tell their friends about the exceptional service and products we deliver. Volumes of books chronicle how employee productivity zooms skyward when appreciation is expressed. (The best of which I’ve read recently is Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage.) Vendors go the extra mile to extend credit and deliver “just in time” when they hear gratitude regularly.

Primary topic: Leadership

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A Maple Tree Business: Three Ways Your Business Stands Out in 2012

Nearly all of the trees on our farm had dropped their leaves by last month except for one maple tree. This one maple tree held on to its leaves like a kid hanging on to his blanket when mom says it has to be washed. Finally it let go of its leaves. The other trees were gray and looked like sticks. This last maple tree put on a show of color, its green leaves turned yellow, then orange, and red against the mundane backdrop of the woods.

Primary topic: Leadership

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10 Ways to Live Positive on a Dog's Budget

10 Ways to Live Positive on a Dog’s Budgetr Dr. Joey Faucette, Author, Coach, & Speaker Gas prices are going up daily and food costs are at an all-time high. We have cut our “fun budgets” way down. So how will we enjoy spring in a fun, positive way? Positive Coach, speaker, & author of Listen to Life with Your Pet, Dr. Joey Faucette says, “Learn how to live positive in a negative world from your dog.”

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 No-Cost Ways to Positively Receive More Business

Zig Ziglar describes well the essence of the fifth core practice, “Receive,” of a Work Positive lifestyle in which you increase sales with greater team productivity so you get out of the office earlier: “When you help others get what they want, you get everything you want,” he said. What goes around, comes around. You reap what you sow. So how do you actually practice “Receive” in your daily business? Here are 3 No-Cost Ways to Positively Receive More Business: Discover What Your Customers Wantr

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

Three Personal Reasons to Shop Locally this Weekend

Shoppers will crowd the super centers and malls this weekend following Thanksgiving. Friday and Saturday are really busy shopping days in the U.S. In fact, over the next several weeks, retail stores will do 50% or more of their business for the year. So where will you go? And who will you do business with? If you truly want to create a Work Positive impact with your holiday spending, here are three reasons to shop locally this Saturday, November 26, which is Small Business Saturday. Personal Servicer

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

3 Positive Ways to Do Business with Ideal Customers

It costs too much to do business with some people. Who are your “some people?” How much time do they steal from your enjoyable customers? How much energy do you give them? How much attention that can be more profitably invested in your ideal customers’ relationships? You’re throwing good time, energy, attention and therefore money after bad. So why are you doing business with “some people?” Select one of them. Just one. The most obnoxious of the bunch. Fire them. Here are 3 Positive Ways to Do Business with Ideal Customers: Displace Themr

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Reasons to Serve Others as You Work Positive

Last week, I spoke to a group of State Farm agents and team members in the Houston area about how to Work Positive in a Negative World. During the workshops, I interviewed selected agents as positive examples of the five core practices. One of those agents, Corey LeJeune, serves The Woodlands, and has a son who turns one year old in a couple of weeks. His son’s birth prompted Corey to look ahead to birthday parties. He imagined great celebrations for his son, but then began thinking about less fortunate children whose parents couldn’t afford to give them a party.

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Ways to Positively Grow Your Business with Gratitude

You’re increasing your sales. Your team is more productive. You get out of the office earlier to do what you love with those you love… …and yet there’s something missing. You struggle to keep all the business plates spinning simultaneously. It’s exhausting to be you some days. Your family and friends ask, “Are you okay?” The missing something is Gratitude. Here are 3 Ways to Positively Grow Your Business with Gratitude: Gratitude Focuses on the Positiver You see what you look for. Is your default zoom set on what’s wrong with your business? That’s a source of exhaustion.

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Timely Strategies to Positive Change

The time changed for most of the U.S. last weekend. We “fell back.” How does this change affect you? Pretty much like any change does. Here are 3 Timely Strategies to Positive Change: Acknowledge the Changer Like most change, the reversal back to Standard Time came without our permission. Congress extended Daylight Savings Time without so much as a phone call to my office…or yours. That’s the way change operates. It shows up without so much as a warning for many of us. We find ourselves blindsided by a software change, a systems change, a pricing change, and the list goes on.

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

How Do You Finish Your Day Strong?

You discovered your productivity trigger. You are more productive in that all-important first hour of your day. You set boundaries around technology intrusion on your productivity. You are well on your way to doing more in one hour than most business professionals do in a month. But there is one more question to answer for greater productivity as you start the final quarter of 2012: How do you finish your day strong? The concluding actions of yesterday ring loudly as you greet tomorrow-becoming-today. Here are three strategies for you to finish your day strong:

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

3 More Positive Strategies to Deal with Your Eeyore Vampire Boss

A couple of weeks ago I shared with you “3 Positive Strategies to Deal with an Eeyore Vampire Boss.” I knew there were flocks of negative bosses everywhere, but evidently more tha I realized. Your overwhelming response prompted me to remember some of my Eeyore Vampire bosses. The one who was so insecure she didn’t want the organization to grow. Another who wanted me to trade product for pot. The one whose boyfriend was jealous of my success. I reflected on what I learned from them and here are “3 More Positive Strategies to Deal with Your Eeyore Vampire Boss”:

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

How Do You Give Exceptional Customer Care?

In the last few months, our team has run up a steep learning curve in developing a new product line and the means to administer it. We’ve experienced a great deal of change and discovered as we’ve run this race that exceptional customer care is an integral part of a successful process. Here are 3 characteristics of exceptional customer care we experienced that created “raving fans” out of us. Ask Great Questionsr

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

Run Your Business Like the Cardinals: 3 Ways to Win Despite the Odds in a Negative Economy

The St. Louis Cardinals defeated my favorite team, the Atlanta Braves, on the last day of the regular season to make the National League play-off series. The Phillies were supposed to sweep the Cardinals in the league championship. The Cards beat them. In the World Series, the smart money was on the Texas Rangers. The Cardinals defeated them, too, and are now the World Champions. Their post-season run to become World Champions included 13 games they won by a single run. Of those, they won 3 by walk-off hits. Five of those 13 games were decided in the final at-bat.

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

How Do You Focus on the Positive at Work?

I was lying flat on my back in the grassy outfield, trying to come around. I had drifted back from my third-base position for the Little League team White Sox into shallow left field to catch a fly ball. I missed the ball with my glove and instead caught it with my forehead. Someone said, “Son, you’ve got to keep your eye on the ball.” Little comfort when your head is killing you and your ego is dead with embarrassment. And you find out later that regardless of how much you keep your eye on the ball, it won’t help. I needed glasses. My focus was off.

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

3 Olympic Things to Do Every Morning So You Work Positive Today

While watching the London Olympics track events, I noticed that the announcers analyzed most of the shorter races by talking about the runner’s start. “She got off to a great start” or “He had a lot of ground to make up from a poor start.” While most of the focus is on who crosses the finish line when, the start is critical to the runner’s success. Your work day is like a race. Your start charts your day’s successful finish. Here are 3 great starts to guarantee you win the company gold and Work Positive today: Get Up on Timer

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

Slow Down to Speed Up: 3 Ways to Productively Work Positive

The truck in the next lane weaved toward me. I looked over. He was texting. The car ahead of me at the now-green traffic light didn’t move. “She’s on Facebook on her phone,” my wife said. The SUV zoomed ahead of me, and then slowed down. And again further down the interstate. Each time, the driver was on a call when I went around, and off the phone when he sped up. And the thought popped in my head, “If these people are ‘always on’ when driving, how are they at work?”

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

3 Ways to Positively Love Your Work

Remember the saying, “Do what you love and love what you do and you’ll never work another day in your life?” Sounds great, but how do you do that? Here are 3 Ways to Positively Love Your Work: Love What You Do for Workr The physical and mental activity of your work must reward you emotionally in order for you to love what you do. For some people, it’s mentally knowing a difference is made, whatever that might be. For others, it’s the physical exertion that creates an endorphin rush. You love your work when you intrinsically value it and enjoy most of the associated activities.

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

3 Low Cost Tips to Positively Profit at Work

The banks aren’t calling to loan you money to grow your business…or start one. So how will you expand in the most profitable manner? Here are 3 Low Cost Tips to Positively Profit at Work. Discoverr Think of business as a discovery mission. Daily you have multiple opportunities to discover more customers, more niches, more problems your business can solve, more…you fill in the blank. You must invest some time in creating conversations in order to discover. Ask your best customers, “Who do you know that we can help the way we do you?”

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

Work Positive Like The Beatles

Did you see Paul McCartney performing for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee? The world still loves the music of The Beatles fifty years later. They’ve sold 600 million albums internationally with 20 songs going #1 on the U.S. Billboard charts. So how did The Beatles achieve such amazing results? More importantly, how can you learn from them and discover your business’ success in the silver lining of today’s economy? Here is how The Beatles grew their brand and business through the lens of the five Work Positive core practices: Perceiver

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Positive Quick Meals to Sell More Productively

Positive salespersons sell 56% more than their negative peers. Positive leaders see team productivity increase by more than one-third. So if you want to increase sales with greater productivity, be positive, right? The question is, How? How do you Work Positive in such a negative world? Feed your mind these 3 positive 10-minute meals daily to increase sales with greater productivity: Positive Breakfastr Just like breakfast is your body’s most important meal of the day because it sets your metabolism, your mental breakfast is equally important. Take 10 minutes each morning and:r

Primary topic: Leadership

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The Most Important Thing Your Business Needs Today

Most of the stories my grandparents told were about how hard just making a living was during their growing up years in the Great Depression. Their stories always left me with a certain sense of financial uncertainty, of “Whew! Glad I didn’t grow up back then because I would have had nothing.”

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

3 Business Truths for Valentine’s Day

When my wife was pregnant with our first child, she really wanted a certain kind of baby crib. It even had a name—the Jenny Lind crib. Frankly, at that point in my life, I didn’t have enough money to buy it, but I really wanted to purchase it because it meant that much to my wife. I was discovering even then how to Work Positive. So I changed my perception, released my imagination, conceived a complementary relationship, believed that I could find the money, and acted on my attention and intention so I achieved the positive result of buying that crib.

Primary topic: Leadership

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You See What You Look For: 3 Strategies to See the Positive at Work in a Negative Economy

You are interested in buying a new vehicle. You go to the dealer’s lot and look at a white Honda Accord. You test-drive it. You really like it, but the salesperson won’t get the price right. As you turn out of the dealer’s lot and drive down the street, guess what you see? A white Honda Accord. You pull out onto the expressway and merge into traffic right behind . . . a white Honda Accord. You look across the median at the traffic and a white Honda Accord passes you. You think, “There are white Honda Accords everywhere!” Now are there really?

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

5 Ways to Positively Win an Oscar at Work

How do you walk the red carpet at work and up onto stage to accept the Academy Award for increasing sales with greater productivity so you get out of the office earlier? Here are 5 Ways to Positively Win an Oscar at Work: Focus on the Partr As talented as you are, you have one part to play. Focus on that part and make it your role despite the distractions of a large cast of customers and teammates. Repeat the positive lines of success over and over until you get them right. Filter out the negative experiences.

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Strategies to Positively Profit from Change

The most common sentence I receive in coaching today is, “We’ve gone through a lot of changes and more are coming.” Ironically, each client believes their situation is unique. It’s all of us. Some of us are excited by it. Others are terrified. Most are just trying to keep up. So how do you increase sales with greater team productivity and get out of the office earlier while experiencing a fire hose volume of change? Invite your customers to show you how. Here are 3 Strategies to Positively Profit from Change: Focus on Changer

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 No-Cost Ways to Positively Profit from Changing Your Customer Experience

A friend of mine told me about his customer experience with an oil change. He arrived before the shop officially opened, simultaneously with another customer. She tried the door, found it open, and walked in. He followed. The two chatted, waiting for the attendant. When he arrived from the back, he gruffly said, “What are you doing in here? We don’t open until 7:30,” turned and went back. My friend assured me he will find a new oil change shop. If you’re the owner or manager, how do you find out about such experiences? When business drops?

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Joey FaucetteRecently published1 topic

Three Reasons to Positively Take Time Away

Around this time of year, we take some time away from work. At least those who have jobs… For those of us who own the business, such time away seems elusive. Here are some reactions I receive when I coach entrepreneur owners to positively take time away from work and my responses: “I can’t afford to take any time away.” You can afford it, and will benefit. Recall the last time you tried to remember something—a customer’s name, your password, or a vendor—and failed. The harder you tried, the further it crept into your memory. When did you remember it?

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Ways to Find Time to Read Positive

When we connect with someone on LinkedIn, we welcome them with an invitation to read free chapters of one of our books. We hope just one idea will coach the reader closer to achieving business dreams. One connection recently replied, “Thanks, but I don’t have time to sit down and read a book.” “I don’t have time” are four of the deadliest words you’ll ever say.

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Positive Things to Do When Your Business Lights Go Out

Super Bowl 47 will best be remembered as, “The Night the Lights Went Out in N’Orleans.” Adversity happens at the most inconvenient times in unexpected ways, and not just at the Super Bowl, but in business, too. Everything from product outages to a teammate goes out or a vital system fails. It happens. What is a business to do? Here are 3 Positive Things to Do When Your Business Lights Go Out: Anticipate Itr

Primary topic: Leadership

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5 Secret Questions the Positively Successful Ask Daily

While studying Great Depression businesses created by successful entrepreneurs, I discovered five core practices that were daily habits for them. They asked themselves five questions daily that charted their course to success. You become a successful business person, also, by asking yourself these same five questions daily. The five questions to ask so you become positively successful are: What Am I Thinking?r

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Things You Gotta Believe about Your Business

What do you believe about your business? Your business beliefs are the core values of your “how” in leading your relationships and managing the details. Have you ever taken four minutes and written them down? Make sure you include these three things you gotta believe about your business: Business Pacer When my daughter ran distance races, she trained her body to build endurance by putting in the necessary miles daily. She also exercised her mind to learn course management.

Primary topic: Leadership

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Do You See What I See?

You have read story after story of random acts of kindness. The person at the drive-thru window who pays for the coffee of the person behind them, who then pays for the coffee of the next person, and so on for up to 27 customers. The same type of generosity occurs at traffic toll booths.

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Ways to Deal with Squawkers in Your Business

I enjoyed some quiet time early one morning before the demands of my day started. All of a sudden, a bird began squawking just outside the window. At first I ignored it, but it loudly persisted so I got up. As I stepped out on the porch, I saw the bird squawking at Maybelle, our cat, who sat on the porch, staring off across the horse pasture. The bird bothered me, but not Maybelle. She sauntered over, giving me permission to pet her while the bird still screamed at us. But Maybelle didn’t mind. She knew the bird was there, but chose to ignore it and enjoy my petting.

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Strategies to Positively Turbocharge Your Productivity

What one word describes what these three scenarios share: Many states have passed a “no texting while driving” law. The gallery is quiet while a golfer putts. You are overwhelmed at work. So what’s your one word? Mine is… …focus. Texting diverts your attention from driving and you wreck. Noise distracts a golfer’s attention. You try to do everything at once and do a small portion of it well. So how do you improve your focus with greater productivity so you get out of the office earlier? Here are 3 Strategies to Positively Turbocharge Your Productivity:

Primary topic: Leadership

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How Do You Limit Technology’s Intrusion on Your Productivity?

You discovered your productivity trigger and transformed your first hour to be more productive. The third question to answer as you increase sales and achieve greater productivity so you leave the office earlier to do what you love with those you love is this: How do I limit technology’s intrusion on my productivity? Marilyn vos Savant says, “Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.”

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Positive Strategies to Finish Your Day Strong

Most business professionals today that we coach are overwhelmed. They get to the end of the day with an ever expanding to-do list and fall exhausted into the evening commute. They return the next morning after reversing the commute and fall exhausted into their desk chair, thinking, “Here we go again…” And yet there are those who do more in a day than most do in a month. Who increase their sales with greater productivity and get out of the office earlier. Who make a life and a living. You wonder, “What is their secret?” One of their secrets is this: they finish their day strong.

Primary topic: Leadership

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What's Your RROI?

You’ve had numerous conversations about your ROI—the Return on Investment—your company achieves. But what about your RROI—the Redefined Reality on Investment—you achieve? Think of your RROI as what’s different—new and improved—about your business and lifestyle since you started your company. If you previously worked for someone else, what’s better now that you own a business? A desire to Redefine our Reality is the #1 reason most of us buy or create our own company. But is your investment of time, energy, and money redefining your reality in the ways you imagined?

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Reasons Vacation Positively Clears Your Business Cache

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale talked about how a constantly bent bow will break. The bow needs pressure released to function well. Dr. Stephen Covey extolled the seventh habit of sharpening the saw. If you saw without a break to sharpen, you work harder with less production. In today’s technology-driven environment, I think of this same principle as clearing your cache. You know how your browser slows down, and perhaps your computer, if you don’t clear your cache? Recently, a week-long vacation cleared my cache. With little exception, I avoided browsing in my businesses.

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Ways to Positively Gain Time

Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend in most of the U.S. We “lose an hour” to supposedly gain more sunlight at the end of the day. So how do you deal with this lost hour? And all the other lost hours of productivity at work? Here are 3 Ways to Positively Gain Time: Prioritiesr Dr. Covey was fond of saying, “The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Ways to Give Positive Customer Service

The relationships we have with our customers are the most important assets we possess. Easy to understand and take care of, right? Nope. As I travel, I encounter a great deal of customer service and disservice. Last week, I learned 3 Ways to Give Positive Customer Service from some positive and negative experiences. Here they are: Listenr As my assistant made reservations for my stay, the Marriott property had obviously listened to previous patrons and anticipated my needs. They asked,rn--“May we pick him up at the airport?”rn--“Will he want a ride to his meeting?”r

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Positive Ways to Lead in Adversity

Our attention this week in the U.S. focuses on celebrating the life and accomplishments of noted civil rights leader, Dr. M.L. King, Jr. Dr. King positively led a movement in the midst of much adversity. What can you learn from him about how you can positively lead in business while experiencing adversity? Dr. King’s example gives us these 3 positive ways to lead in adversity: Expect Adversityr

Primary topic: Leadership

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5 Secret Steps the Positively Successful Take in Response to Change

I live in a part of the U.S. that received a once-a-decade snowfall last week. At least 12,000 flights were cancelled. Millions of people were home from work, rearranging untold numbers of meetings and assignments. Such rapid change is commonplace in our world today. Snow is forecast. Other changes are not. How you deal with it determines your positive success at work. Here are five secret steps the positively successful take in response to such rapid change: Relaxr

Primary topic: Leadership

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What Hour is the Most Productive in Your Day?

Last week you discovered your productivity trigger. I found mine standing around a family member’s grave, watching dragon flies and remembering their 30-day life spans. A new focus emerged for me in doing business, one that defines success by my clients’ success. My to-do list is better now—more focused with less time required for completion. The second question to answer as you increase sales and achieve greater productivity so you leave the office earlier to do what you love with those you love is this: How do I act in my first hour on my productivity trigger?

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Low Cost Ways to Grow Positive Profits

Everyone is watching their budgets and doing more with less. So how do you grow and increase profits most effectively? Here are 3 Low Cost Tips to Positively Profit at Work. Discoverr Business is a discovery mission. You have multiple opportunities to discover more customers, niches, and problems your business can solve. Invest time in creating discovery conversations. Ask your best customers, “Who do you know that we can help the way we do you?” Ask your best clients, “What other _______ problems do you wish we helped you with?”

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Ways to Make Your Business Sing On-Key Despite the Flat Economy

At times we allow the negative noise of the flat economy to drown out any positive, on-key music in our businesses. Soon the negative noise has an effect on you. You become filled with: Fears about finances—“The bank called. Surely they’re not calling in my note.” Suspicions about an employee—“He sure talks about our competition a lot.” Mistrust of a vendor—“She says she’s doing me a special favor with this contract, but…” What’s a business owner to do?

Primary topic: Leadership

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3 Delicious Qualities of a Work Positive-Solid Business

My grandmother gave me a chocolate bunny every spring when I was a child. I always looked forward to getting it, but there were some chocolate bunnies I liked better than others. Some years she gave me a hollow chocolate bunny. Now I really liked the chocolate, but when I bit into it, there was nothing but air. Other years she gave me a marshmallow-filled chocolate bunny. It was great because it had something inside. But marshmallow does get a little old after a few bites and it’s just not chocolate.

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3 Strategies to Keep a Work Positive Environment in a Negative Election Year

Welcome to the 2012 Election—the Year of Negativity. Like the weather, everyone’s talking about it, yet no one is doing anything about it… …yet it does have a negative effect on your business. The advent of 24/7 information channels creates a constant media feeding frenzy of irrelevant, trivial snatches of negative spin hurled by candidates at one another. This hourly barrage of unsubstantiated negativity drains positivity from your work environment. Mission focus scatters. Morale suffers. Productivity follows. Profits diminish. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Primary topic: Leadership

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Three Reasons to Do Business Face-to-Face

Recently, I delivered a keynote presentation about business growth, “Fence Posts to Trees,” to the top forty emerging leaders of a U.K.-based pharmaceutical company. I ate with one of their five senior VPs during the meal that preceded. He lives in Scotland, commutes to London weekly, and travels to other countries. We talked about his travel schedule a bit and I asked, “How much do you employ technology to conduct virtual meetings?” To my surprise he answered, “More tha I like. When we’re doing business in other countries, it’s difficult to virtually communicate some things.”

Primary topic: Leadership

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Do More with Less: Three Strategies to Accomplish More at Work

I was putting up some fencing around our horse pasture. Like most men, when I get involved in a project, a trip to the home improvement store becomes necessary. And I have to look around and make sure there’s nothing else I need, especially if power tools are involved. Well, I bought what I thought I needed to do the fence. When I returned, I discovered that I already had the parts I needed from a previous project. I learned that if you do an inventory, you discover what you need and what you already have. You do more with less.

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