Tom Brady has some advice on how to be successful and live a joyful life: Stop blaming everyone else. “Life is about always changing and adapting to different things. Today, the world wants to blame, and shame, and guilt, and fear everything all the time,” the Tampa Bay Buccaneers superstar said. “We would never teach
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Most baseball fans can recall growing up with Topps baseball cards with free bubble gum in every pack. For decades, 70 years to be exact, Topps owned the baseball card market. They had an exclusive contract with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). A few weeks ago, Topps was blindsided
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I’m sure you’ve heard this phrase many times in your life. Right? So many years ago, I was in an appointment with a new prospective customer. I gave my spiel. She told me some of the challenges the company was having and asked what solutions we could offer. My response. “There’s more than one way
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I love the movie, Shawshank Redemption. In that movie there’s a famous line, “Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying” where the lead character, Andy Dufresne is focused on getting out of prison and living the life of his dreams. Truth is that many of us have been in a “prison” of sorts just like
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You’ve heard of Sir Isaac Newton. As the story goes, he discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head while he was sitting under an apple tree. He also discovered a famous law of physics, “an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest”.
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It is my experience that most people postpone success because they are waiting for perfect. Waiting for the perfect moment. Waiting to perfect their industry or sales knowledge. Waiting to perfect their finances. Waiting for things to be perfect is a perfectly terrible excuse. The truth is that once you get started doing anything, no
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You have all heard the saying, “money doesn’t grow on trees.” We all get that. But what no one tells you is where money does grow. The truth is that money grows in “other people’s pockets.” So how do you get your share of money in “other people’s pockets”? Relationships. I have said for decades
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Let me ask you, what are you doing in your business today that is NEW to you? Truth is that in the beginning of your career in our industry everything was new to you. It was frightening and exhilarating at the same time. You were green. You were raw. You were learning product knowledge, selling
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There are many admirable characteristics that help accelerate success in business and life. One characteristic is “reliability” which can be measured by your say/do ratio. Your say/do ratio is simply the ratio of the promises (things you SAY you will do) to the promises you keep (the things actually you Do) that you said you
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Our mindset is critically important to our success in life because thoughts become things. Steven Covey, in his best-selling book The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, introduced us to the abundance mindset. An abundance mindset is when a person believes that our world if full of plenty of opportunities for all people to be
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