“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?” – Clement Stone When it comes to influencing, most of our focus […]
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The Genius Study is a study that involved 197,000 individuals across 23 countries and was designed to identify differences between the best performers (highly engaged people) and the rest. What talents do you think the best performers had? Do you think it was a talent of conceptual thinking or attention to details? Or how about
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Have you ever been at a social event where you felt ignored? When you feel unimportant, your energy goes down. Now think of a time when you were greeted by a dear friend who you have not been able to see in a long time. Your energy immediately sky rockets. Now think about being in
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Leaders have a strong drive to succeed. They tend to be results oriented and want to place a check mark next to “goal completed.” Leaders also persevere through failure. President Abraham Lincoln faced several failures in his lifetime, such as losing political campaigns, a failed business and bankruptcy, before he became President of the United
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“Influence masters first ensure that vital behaviors connect to intrinsic satisfaction. Next, they line up social support. They double check both of these areas before they finally choose extrinsic rewards to motivate behavior.” – Influencer Often with influencing or motivating others, the first thing that we think of and do is connected to an extrinsic
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part VIII: Are Your Reward Systems Backfiring? “Influence masters first ensure that vital behaviors connect to intrinsic satisfaction. Next, they line up social support. They double check both of these areas before they finally choose extrinsic rewards to motivate behavior.” – Influencer Often with influencing or motivating others, the
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3 Steps to Life Balance When we lack life balance, we can often experience pain that impacts us in multiple areas of our lives. Often there is low mental energy, which leads to loss of productivity and money. We can have low emotional energy, which leads to unfulfilled relationships, strain in marriages, friendships and not
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“It is the lack of thought, not the presence of thought, that enable our bad behavior.” – Influencer: The Power to Change Anything Influence is the power to produce effects on the actions, behaviors and opinions of others. We want the results of our influence to be for good and not for bad. Many times
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part VII: Besides IQ, Do You Have NQ? Meet Rita. Her blood is pumping, heart racing as she tries to control her breathing in hope that no one will notice her agitation. She is frustrated and angry. Once again she feels sabotaged with her work. She wants to do
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part VI: Are You an Opinion Leader? “I learned a long time ago, that credit is infinitely divisible. Give it away every chance you get, and there’s always plenty left for you.” – Dr. Berwick The ability to influence begins with us. Believing that we can influence change is
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