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I had a great conversation today on Intrepid Radio with Todd Schnick about what holds people back in their careers and their pursuit of success.
This was a fun and interesting conversation. Have a listen here. Read More
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on Maximizing Your Strengths
If you missed it you can
download the podcast
or
download whole webinar
(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)
Here is what we talked about:
Satisfaction: If you want to feel great about yourself and like your work more, start here. Read More
Every month I do a webinar, and then I do a blog post with a summary and a link to listen.
So…here is the link to
Download: BUILDING & USING YOUR NETWORK
But this month, and because this webinar was about networking,
I wanted to share a networking story about how 2 days after the webinar I met Clint Eastwood and Bill Murray…
…for the sole reason of being scared to do it, and doing it anyway. Read More
Recently, I keep finding reasons to think about being scared. Or more specifically…
…getting reminded that being scared is OK.
Successful people spend as much (or more) time being scared as they do feeling confident and comfortable.
The difference is that they do it anyway. Read More
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on Ruthless Priorities & Guilt.
If you missed it you can download the podcast or the whole webinar (includes presentation, worksheets and templates.
(more information below)
Here is what we talked about:
No one is helping you: Definining and sticking to Ruthless Priorities is one of the most important and hardest things we are asked to do as business leaders. Read More
I often talk about the importance of Ruthless Priorities – You can download a free excerpt about this from my book, RISE.
But often, people say, “Patty, I am good at prioritizing, I do get the most important things done, but how do I deal with the guilt I feel about all the things I am not doing.” Read More
As much as you’d like to believe that good work should stand on it’s own, it doesn’t.
Building credibility and trust is essential.
But you can’t have credibility if you are invisible.
You also can’t have credibility if you are annoying! Read More
Corporate crap is all that extra, low-value work and random pressures that interfere with delivering on your job…
It’s the stuff that drains your time and energy, and annoys you a lot…
It’s the stuff that makes you feel like you are not controlling your own destiny. Read More
I recently received some input from a reader that defined the perfect storm of being stuck in the workhorse trap. Here it is…
“I’m the workhorse for our volunteer emergency communicator group. There are 4 of us, but here lately I’ve been the only one answering the calls from the City for severe weather (tornadoes, severe hailstorms, etc.) Read More
I love this book.
It is rare to find a business book that inspires you to be a better person.
In Today We Are Rich, Tim Sanders outlines how we can improve our confidence, our life, the lives of others, and our business success by investing in specific positive behaviors. Read More
