 In a world of ever increasing productivity, efficiencies, and people it is sometimes good to take a step back and look at how different statistics relates to you and your little place on this great big ball. Provided are a couple great videos as well as take a look at some live links here.
Click 'Read More' to see a couple GREAT videos... Add Comment  Goals do not work. Yes that statement is severely ambiguous. No this is not an 'off-the-charts' failure rate of all the popular trends of New Year's Resolutions post. Yes this is a true statement. No this is not a bait and switch line.
If you are a goal setter and push yourself to stay motivated then you need to read this. If you do not have any pressing goals and/or do not have any life goals you also need to read this. Maybe you stopped making goals because they stopped working, then you need to read this. The image to the right is the typical step plan to reach a goal, however sometimes it just simply does not work. Believe me --> Goals don't work. In studying this topic, I have found three reasons most goals, or goal setting does not work...  Brian Tracy is a management/personal development speaker/self-help guru. Focus is the main 'focus' of his book Focal Point. Brian Tracy has written more than 50 books.
"To become an ultimate achiever, you must habitually focus on the one crucial action that will lead you to your goal. You must identify your focal point - The most important thing you can do at any given time to attain maximum results in any part of your life." Don't take my word for it, go buy it now or download it for Kindle... even to your iPad/Android/Mac/Windows Kindle app. Below is some takeaways, but understand... don't just read these in place of the book. There is so much more to get from reading it. Until your's arrives in the mail, read on...  When I started writing this blog Charlie Sheen had a total of 798,947 followers. His first tweet ever was only 16 hours prior to writing this post. That is about 50,000 followers per hour. All the news is about him, everyone at the gas station, grocery store, and work is talking about him.
I remember one time when a house was on fire in my neighborhood. My neighbor came over and knocked on the door to tell me. What did I do? Did I thank them and then shut the door and go back to watching television? Absolutely not, I spent the next three hours... This is the graduation commencement address that Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, gave at Stanford in 2005. In this powerful speech, Steve recounts three personal stories from his personal life in which his main emphasis is, " the only way to do great work is to love what you do." Personally, I found his speech to be powerful and motivational, so enjoy! Below is the entire transcript of the speech...
Okay, this is no trick, Paul Karason's skin really is blue, it turned blue from...
 The first time I lost that amount of money was during the devastating economic crash in the real estate market. My company was investing in real estate doing flips, rentals, and short/long-term investments. We also got into hard money lending. During the crash we had individuals and companies default on money we lent. That was the first time!
The second time was yesterday, but not as significant. I am playing a game on ESPN called Streak for the Ca$h. The game is simple and it is free, you simply pick a game winner for all different sports and whoever get's the longest winning streak for the month wins $50,000, and if you have over 27 winning streaks in a row, you can win $100,000. Don't worry there is a leadership lesson here, not just a sports talk... Keep reading! My approach was more based off running simple statistics and probability to get the wins versus who I thought would win or what other people were voting for. I made sure to not... How do we find peace? Does Obama provide it? Does war create it? Does a treaty guarantee it? Does Miss America's dream inspire it? World peace, I do not know. However what I do know is we do not have personal peace enough. We do not have stillness in life. We all only have only 168 hours per week, awake for only 112 of them, that is a total of 6,720 minutes of productive time. Here is a challenge, CLICK the image below and do NOTHING for two minutes. Can you do it? Coaching Moment: Make a practice of silent peace everyday. That is a total of 14 minutes out of 6,720 in a week. You can afford it! Yes we can. Yes we can. Yes we can.  When you look at marketing and the value of it's worth, you must look at the avenue of marketing. It has always been said that word-of-mouth advertising works. The warm market penetration needs to really be assessed by more businesses. In Warren Buffet's book, The Warren Buffet CEO: Secrets from the Berkshire Hathaway Managers, written by Robert Miles, on one particular visit with GEICO, Warren talks of the humility of the CEO of GEICO, Tony Nicely. GEICO is known for spending the most money on advertising than any other company. Whether you are fans of the caveman who I guess were deeply offended, the googly eyes, the gecko, the woodchucks chucking wood, or perhaps the little piggy who said, "Wee wee" all the way home, or perhaps good 'ol Abe telling the truth you can recall dozens of different commercials of theirs. Below is the annoying pig... Often times when I am talking to clients or potential partners about their marketing strategies I ask them if they have ever seen a GEICO commercial, and like clock work everyone says...
 The following is an excerpt of a blog from a great friend of mine discussing some things we should all be doing, always, enjoy... Provided courtesy of Chris Conrey: Everyone knows the old salesman maxim: Always Be Closing. Made famous by Alec Baldwin’s Glengarry Glen Ross performance (watch here – some foul language) which has been shown in 20% of sales meetings across the world since the movie’s release in 1992 – any professional salesperson has heard this term approximately 4,576,861 times over the course of their career. But there are other things you should always be doing.
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