Feb
10
Why Mediation Can Be Very Useful
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Relationships | 6 Comments
Person A: “I did all this stuff but you don’t even recognize it!” Person B: “I do recognize it but you don’t see what I’m talking about!” Person A: “I went to get your clothes washed; I’ve got the house cleaned…” Person B: “I’m trying to say that the problem isn’t what you’re doing at [...]
Jan
22
How To Gain An Edge In Business
Filed Under Entrepreneurship | 2 Comments
As I worked on my business WM Media today, I started thinking about what our competitive edge is versus other businesses of our type. Our business model is quite simple: buy websites and sell advertising. What could be easier? Anybody can do this right? Can’t a competitor just come in and “steal” our customers? To [...]
Dec
11
Conversation Skills / Tips: How To Have A Good Conversation
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Relationships | 36 Comments
Do you have awkward silences in your conversations or not know what to say? Do you walk away from conversations not knowing what you’ve talked about? Here are a few important tips to improve your conversations within other people. 1) Be Genuinely Interested – The point of a conversation is to communicate with the other [...]
Nov
19
How To Win Someone’s Heart
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 33 Comments
The Battle You Can’t Win For some reason, my mother has this unrelenting desire to stuff me with food. Growing up, there are always requests to “eat more”. When I leave home, there’ll always be packages of food stuffed away in my luggage somewhere. Whenever I receive a present, half the package is guaranteed to [...]
Nov
12
The Stages Of Getting Things Done
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Improve Efficiency, The Bigger Perspective | 3 Comments
Getting Things Done Here are several stages that people seem to get into when they think of something to be done. The level you are at largely determines how effective you will be in accomplishing that task. From my experience, these are the states people tend to get into: It’s Impossible At this stage, the [...]
Oct
30
Focus On One Thing At A Time To Completion
Filed Under Career, Conciousness, Entrepreneurship, Improve Efficiency, Money | 40 Comments
Growing up, I remember watching a show on the Discovery channel that talked about different species of human beings, one of which is the Neanderthal. They had the incredible to focus on doing one task at a time, producing far greater amounts than their smarter, but “lazier” cousins. It occurred to me that in terms [...]
Oct
18
The Weakness Of Overconfidence
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Health, Money, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 34 Comments
The Weakness Of Overconfidence We’ve all experienced it before. You take a test that you think is ridiculously easy, so you put it off until the last minute, and end up getting a B. You get into a relationship and start taking your significant other for granted, resulting in a breakup. You invest in a [...]
Oct
12
How To Be Genuinely Interested In People
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 26 Comments
In Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People, he listed genuine interest as one of the most important aspects of a good relationship. I can’t agree more with that statement! In all of my interactions with people and my discussions with people who I think interacts well with other people, this concept has [...]
Sep
27
What Do You Actually Buy With Money?
Filed Under Conciousness, Entrepreneurship, Money, The Bigger Perspective | 1 Comment
Let’s say you just went to a ticket booth and bought some tickets for that show/game/concert you want to attend. Let me ask you, what did you just buy? Sure, you did just buy a ticket. Then again, we could have just ripped off a random piece of paper and gave it to you. Hey, [...]
Sep
21
Appreciate And Love Yourself
Filed Under Career, Entrepreneurship, Health, Motivation & Purpose, Relationships, The Bigger Perspective | 1 Comment
Love Yourself From the previous post Why You Should Show Appreciation, it’s clear that it is very important to give ot people appreciation whenever we get a chance. The irony is, while we do sometimes do this for other people, we often forget to give it to the one person that matters to us the [...]
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