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Thud!…There it goes

It’s Friday and it’s been a week full of client meetings. You’re so exhausted you can’t even remember where you’ve been. Your recliner beckons, but suddenly, it hits you…you forgot to book flights to that meeting on Monday. Thud!…there it goes…that sinking stone in your gut when you realize that you’ll be paying exorbitantly high fares and that you won’t be giving into your recliner....

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Trimming Your Travel Costs – PARKING

Over the past several years, parking costs at most airports have gone through the roof. This is especially true at major hubs, like Boston, New York and Chicago. Frequent travelers and those who park their cars for a full week or more, get hit with sticker shock every time they get their car out of hock…Oops, I mean out of the garage. Fortunately, there are some steps that can be taken to reduce the...

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Transforming Dreams to Goals & Goals to Reality – Part IV

Last week, we worked on taking the ”Macro View” of our goal down one level deeper to arrive at the next to the last step…the “Micro View”.  Here in Part 4, we’ll bring each of our micro view items down to the deepest and most important view…the “Task View”.  To create the task view, we need to ask the same question of each of your micro view items that we had previously asked of each of...

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Transforming Dreams to Goals & Goals to Reality – Part III

Are you in limbo when it comes to the goals you want to achieve?  Stuck on how to bring them to reality? Read on to learn how asking just one question will create a crystal-clear game plan for achieving any goal you’ve set for yourself or your business.  As I mentioned in Part II of this blog series, Transforming Dreams to Goals and Goals to Reality (see Archives for Part I & II), I first developed...

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Transforming Dreams into Goals & Goals into Reality – Part II

In Part I of this 4-part series, we discussed that transforming your dream into an achievable goal requires that you articulate exactly what you want to achieve and assign a realistic deadline in which to accomplish it. For example: “I’d like to become an “Organizational Development” coach.” becomes “I will become a certified “Organizational Development” coach” by June, 2012.” “I need...

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Transforming Dreams to Goals & Goals to Reality – Part I

Like many, your New Year’s resolutions have probably been made and broken at least once in the first week.  Most of us make our personal resolutions or set our business goals as big picture ideas like “I want to increase my client base” or “I want to get more organized.” At this point, a goal isn’t actually a “goal” yet, it’s a dream…a desire…and, while it may be a deeply desired...

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What’s YOUR story??

I just got back from the outstanding A-HA Social Media Summit put on by Allen and Lani Voivod , in partnership with the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development at Gunstock Mountain Resort, NH. Talk about illuminating!!  While I had “played” with LinkedIn and had actually set up a Twitter account, I never really “got” the understanding of how and why they worked or how to...