Entries from February 2010

Destiny calling? Let VISION be your guide

February 19th, 2010 · 18 Comments

What is your destiny? Where will you be in five years? Or 10,  or 30?
Of course, no matter how hard we search, no one can answer that question with certainty. But while we can’t know our destiny, we CAN know and change our direction.
The journey toward destiny always begins with VISION. Vision is the roadmap [...]

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Tags: dream · put your dream to the test · success · vision

Be impressed, not impressive

February 11th, 2010 · 35 Comments

Too often we think that if we can impress others, we will gain influence with them. We want to become others’ heroes – to be larger than life. That creates a problem because we’re real live human beings. People can see us for who we really are. If we make it our goal to impress [...]

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Tags: Attitude · Communication · Influence · Maxwell Daily Reader · leadership

Do you have a personal plan for growth?

February 8th, 2010 · 39 Comments

On Twitter and Facebook on Sunday, I quoted my friend Paul Meyer, mentioning that he was the person who helped me create my first personal growth plan. In the hours afterward, I received dozens of requests, all asking the same thing: “How do you create a personal growth plan?”
The answer to that takes more than [...]

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Tags: Twitter & Social Media · personal growth · quotes and illustrations · success

Are you moving toward breakdown … or breakthrough?

February 3rd, 2010 · 39 Comments

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. Dick Biggs, a consultant who helps Fortune 500 companies improve profits and increase productivity, writes that all of us have unfair experiences; as a result, some people merely exist and [...]

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Tags: Attitude · Failing Forward · Maxwell Daily Reader · mistakes · success

The final countdown

February 1st, 2010 · 37 Comments

Well, the countdown has begun…

The final edits are complete, contributions from commenters have been added, and Everyone Communicates, Few Connect is currently at the printer.
If you remember the cover design from November, you may notice that it’s been modified just a little. After I previewed it, Justin Wise at BeDeviant.com pointed out its design similarity [...]

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Tags: Communication · Everyone Communicates Few Connect · books