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Talent or Tenacity: Which do you have?

Have you read the book "Go For No?"  If not, it's a good investment for your personal and your business growth.  Here is a clip of some well know Entrepreneurs speaking on Talent vs Tenacity in regards to "Go For No."

Tory Johnson: 10 Tips to Get Your Kid a Summer Job

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Advice and Resources: Teach Your Kids to Get Out There to Nab Some Summertime Work By TORY JOHNSON Workplace Contributor May 31, 2010 To line up summer employment, it's all about old fashioned pavement pounding right now. Share these tactics with your teens to help them hear, "You're hired." Tory Johnson offers teens tips to get good summer jobs.Talk to friends and neighbors. Encourage your kids to start close to home by promoting their own skills and interests and telling friends and neighbors that they're willing to offer a helping hand. It could be baby-sitting, tutoring, music lessons, house painting, yard work -- whatever they feel comfortable and confident doing. If one person doesn't have steady work, teens can juggle multiple clients with the same needs. Ask directly for leads. When talking to the people in the neighborhood, kids should also ask directly for introductions and job leads. "If you don't need my time and talent, do you k...

Become Your Destination

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Good Morning and Great Day... You can have everything you want. No matter where you are on the learning line of life all the resources you need are always available to you so that you can reach the destination you are seeking powerfully. You just need to call them to you. Did you know that once you set your intention and speak it with conviction and hold a strong and unwavering belief the universe will set in motion the flow of LIFE so that you receive all that is already destined to make your desires manifest in all the ways you can think them into reality? By being the very thing you are intending to become there can be no other way than total success in the efforts you put forth for your goals to become real. When you Become Your Destination your destination becomes all of the presence and power you commit it to be. In life we all have ups and downs, feelings of being unsure about a course of action, ways in which we can talk ourselves out of doing something, being susceptible ...

Need Help Lowering the Rates on Your Credit Cards?

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Try the credit card companies' dedicated help lines to get your rate lowered. Each of the major credit card companies has a dedicated help line that is devoted exclusively to assisting customers who are having problems with credit card debt.  If calling the company directly does not get you a lower interest rate, the people on the dedicated help line may be able to do better.  There's no harm in trying. Here are the key phone numbers.  (You can also find them on http://www.helpwithmycredit.org/ ). 1.  Bank of America:  (800) 500-5306 2.  Capital One:  (866) 929-5303 3.  Discover Card:  (866) 567-1660 4.  FIA Card Services:  (888) 635-0776 5.  Citi:  (866) 936-4814 6.  Citi, for your Sears Card:  (866) 532-9532 7.  Citi, for The Home Depot Credit Card:  (866) 532-9689 8.  Citi, for your Macy's Credit Card:  (866) 785-1079 9.  Citi, for your retail and gas cards:...

Gain Massive Visibility

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Whether you sell a product or service, write books, consult or run a small business, you will learn some of the most powerfu strategies to gain massive visibility on the Internet that Internet experts have been using for years. You can discover how to quickly and easily gain lots of recognition to increase your credibility, market influence and revenues while maintaining complete integrity in the way you do business.  Are you someone who deeply believes in what you do; so much in fact that you  KNOW you are meant to impact people around the globe with your mesage.  Do you KNOW that if you were a recognized name in your market you would hav more influence that ever before?  Are you ready to make 2010-2011 your best year ever - both personally and professionally?

Happiness is a Verb

The Secret's Lisa Nichols says happiness is verb. We depend on each other for happiness and the "Law of Attraction" is simply the law of happiness...when someone is happy, we all become happier.

Career Development: Networking for the Socially Inept, Introverted and Reluctant

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You now know our type.  We're the kind of people who for whatever reason don't really know how to start up a conversation.  We'd rather hide under the table than start chatting with an unknown person or stsy  at home watching reruns than go to a party.  We're your awkward cousin or the kid that sat behind you in biology.  Is there networking hope for us?  There is hope and you will find comfort in knowing (for all of us procedural nerds) that it can be a process you can quickly and painlessly use.  Like many things in my life, I've had to figure this out on my own but have followed it up with study.  I know some people find it hard to believe that I am introverted since I have been known to speak to a crowd of 1000 people but it's true.  it's easier for me to do public speaking than make small talk.  The difference is the type of talk and the setting for when that talking takes place.  As a speaker, I develop and deliver content wit...