Top 10 Business, Faith & Faith-at-Work Podcasts (Part 2)

Alrighty, then: Here’s the second (and final) installment of podcasts that send my gray cells a-dancing . . .
Sales Guy’s Quick and Dirty Tips For Getting The Deal Done
I confess: As an introvert, the word “sales” used to scare the daylights out of me. But I’m learning we’re all in sales, no matter what we [...]

Top 10 Business, Faith & Faith-at-Work Podcasts (Part I)

If you made me choose between eating and being able to listen to my favorite podcasts for a day, that’d be a tough one for me. They’re my brain food, and consuming them makes me smarter, wiser and happier.
One simple (yet very, very powerful) success principle is choosing carefully whom we listen to and what goes into [...]

Housekeeping, Giveaways & What Makes You Tick

Have I told you lately that I love you? I do.
In fact, the plan was to surprise all you email subscribers today with a nifty little gift as a “thank you” for keeping your eyeballs on this blog. (Seriously, I’m digging into my pocketbook for this one and saving the receipt as a business expense.)
Then [...]

Freaky, Freaky Fresh

(That’s a line from Hannah Montana, for those of you who aren’t “with it.”)
Forgive me if you’ve already seen this video, but I find it fascinating . . .  (I even tried to force my husband to show it to his Social Studies class.) It both excites and scares the bejeebers out of me.
Once thing is [...]

Grammar Police

(A little something to entertain you while I compose a more thoughtful post.)
This one’s kinda old, but it never fails to make me chuckle (any other grammar nerds in the house?)
So… true story:
Someone calls the local Wal-Mart and orders a cake with the following instructions:
“Write: ‘Best Wishes Suzanne.’ And underneath that, ‘We Will Miss You.’”
This [...]

OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE: You can either read it as “Opportunity is Nowhere” or “Opportunity is Now Here”–your choice. (I totally stole this one from Dan Miller.)
I know the economy is bad, but I’m surprised by how many people have emailed me lately asking me to forward their résumé (or a loved one’s) due to [...]

Yay, more free books!

Hi, gang,
What’s better than a free book? Three free books!
This is probably the busiest week of the year for me so I haven’t been able to draft a thoughtful post — instead, I decided to bribe you (you know, in the spirit of Christmas and all). Below are three nifty resources I stumbled into:

For a limited time, Zondervan is [...]

Free Book: The Power of Who

As promised, I’m donating a few of the pre-release books I’ve received from publicists in the past year or so.
Today’s giveaway is
The Power of Who: You Already Know Everyone You Need To Know by Bob Beaudine, and one of you will get it before it comes out to the masses in January, 2009. (Isn’t that [...]

The Other Secret

It seems the universe is kicking Rhonda Byrne’s butt these days – some have called it a “karmic backlash” against the author of The Secret.
In her best-selling book, Byrne writes “Nothing (good or bad) can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts. Your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. Your [...]

Talent Is Never Enough

A couple of years ago I heard John Maxwell, author of Talent Is Never Enough, expand on that thought at a conference. While I never read the book, his words still ring in my ears today.
Consider these facts:

More than 50% of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies had C or C- [...]