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Power Thought: Stand in your power

“We must quit portraying ourselves as pitiful. We must quit pretending we are lesser than we are.” ~ Glenn Morshower What this quote means in business: Why is that we so often hide our brilliance? That we dampen our own light and refrain from being our true selves? Often it is because we [...]

Visionary and vision

One of my favorite speakers at Craig Duswalt’s Rockstar Entrepreneur Conference was Larry Broughton. He spoke several times during the conference and I always found golden nuggets in what he had to say. I’ll be sharing more quotes from him in the coming posts, but today I’d like to share this one: “Don’t confuse being [...]

Eat your words

This is a little off topic, but so much fun I had to share: A festival that speaks to my heart of hearts. The International Edible Book Festival is an annual event usually held on or around April 1. Libraries and other book-loving venues across the world will be holding this festival on Monday. Imagine, [...]

Power Thought: Let go of doubt

“If you are expecting a yes, you need to let go of doubt.” ~ Loral Langemeier What this quote means in business: Doubt rarely serves you. When you go into a situation with doubt, you influence the outcome negatively. If you want a yes, expect a yes with full confidence. This is part of what [...]

Find inspiration in failure

On the first day of the Rockstar Entrepreneur Conference, I was completing one of the exercises in my High Performance Leadership manual. The exercise was a self-assessment of my leadership skills. The point was to see how my self assessment compared to the self assessment I completed at the beginning of the project. I guess [...]

Power Thought: Write down your goals

“The goals that get written down are the goals that get achieved.” ~ Michelle Patterson What this quote means in business: Michelle Patterson, the woman currently behind the California Women’s Conference, was one of the guest speakers at Craig Duswalt’s Rockstar Entrepreneur Conference this month and spoke about the importance not only of having goals, [...]

Be strong and proud

I’ll admit. I love to drink tea … even if it only an herbal infusion. One of my favorite brands of tea is Yogi. They make a hazelnut tea that is da bomb! Anyway, one of the cool things about this tea is the flap on the teabag. Each one has something to say. The [...]

Hi-Five Yourself!

This past week, I’ve had a cough. So I’ve been sucking down Halls Honey-Lemon cough drops … a lot. And then I noticed something that seemed completely random. The wrappers of all the drops have encouraging words on them. Here are a few examples: Put a little strut in it. Turn “can do” into “can [...]

Power Thought: Attitude is everything

“A good attitude won’t guarantee victory, but a bad one will guarantee defeat.” ~ Larry Broughton What This Quote Means to Business: Larry Broughton said this at least twice during the Rockstar Entrepreneur Conference last week. And it really struck a chord with me. When you have a good attitude … about your life, about [...]

Mastermind your way to success

In his book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill gave this definition of a mastermind group: “The coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose, in the spirit of harmony.” During the Rockstar Entrepreneur Conference this past weekend, Craig Duswalt facilitated a panel of his mastermind members, [...]