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Tell your story with your own words, and live your life.
What we talk about is our story. Our story is about who we are. When we talk about our experiences, what we see, feel, do, fear, like with our own words, we create our own life. We market ourselves by telling our story. Marketing is storytelling, said best selling author and blogger Seth Goddin. The…
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The YouEconomy: Stop being only a consumer and start being an owner!
I just read this morning a very important report on the YouEconomy to be published in the next issue of Success Magazine. I invite you to dig deeper and to join this global movement that is revolutionizing how we live, work, and play. Here are some notes I took from this special report released online…
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Lessons from life: things I’ve learned along the way!
A friend of mine just forwarded this email to me. And I would like to share it with you. I don’t know the original author. If you do, please share my regards with him/her for his/her creative composition. Those are things we’ve learned from this thing called life. Have a good read. Enjoy, and let…
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Having Fun!
Today was a fun day! We spent the day celebrating Axel, our 3rd son, graduating from Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We have been there and done that: This is our third high school’s graduation from Gibbons. We did not invite our “Fat Greek Family.” (I hope you saw that movie. If not:…
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What a difference a day makes!
It was 11:38 am yesterday when Marijo, my wife, called me. I was on my way to a meeting and missed her call. I was driving and stopped at the corner of Commercial Boulevard and 441 in Fort-Lauderdale, Florida, on my way to the Florida Department of Transportation where I had my weekly Toastmasters Meeting…
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Leadership & the power of a few: Every body can. Only a few will.
Last Tuesday, I was speaking at a leadership meeting in Fort-Lauderdale, and I quoted best-selling author Malcom Gladwell, a New Yorker reporter, who published the book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. I am a great fan of Gladwell. I read most of his work. And I encourage you to…
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Leadership & Humility: the test of the 10 commandments!
I had the opportunity to attend a theology and philosophy orientation class last Saturday. I had one of the greatest lesson in humility that I never had. I’m glad to share it with you. I have been postponing, thinking, and rethinking about this class for the last five years. I am still thinking about it.…
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Self-Leadership development to face business and life killers
If you are a business owner, you face sometimes with business killers. Laurie Woodward, one of my top public speaker, mentioned four of them as followed: disappointments, discouragement, distractions, and temptation. In a recent speech which I had the pleasure to listen a couple of times today, as part of my January training system delivered by the…
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I just discovered bestselling author John Mc Arthur’s work in Atlanta.
I have been in Atlanta, Ga, for the last 24 hours, visiting families, and having some time off from the ongoing social media, and phone thing. Since then, I haven’t followed my recent notifications from my different accounts: emails, phone calls, twitter, facebook, LinkedIn, Google +, and so on… I disconnect to reconnect with closed…
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The Power of a Mentor, Good Books, Perseverance, and Toughening Up
Originally posted on greg johnson leadership: Over the last 30+ years I have learned the power of several key principles that have molded my life. Most of what I have learned have come from the advice of good mentors. It’s interesting, that those mentors who had more than average success, had about the same advice. One…
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