You are at an event and spot that one person you’ve been trying to meet. They are across the room so you make your way over to them to introduce yourself and hopefully get an appointment. By the time you reach out your hand, and before you’re able to say one word, they have already decided if they like you or not!
Doesn’t seem too fair does it? You have 9 seconds (some experts say it is as low as 5 seconds) to make your first impression. If this is the case then MOST decisions […]
Once I closed my restaurant down, the one we took a $50,000 initial investment and in three short years turned that into a $750,000 loss, I received an interesting observation from one of my Mentors. He said: “Ed, you need to Grow Your Vision!”
He went on to explain that I was making the same mistake many business people and pastors make. We believe our calling is to grow our businesses or churches. This creates a type of tunnel vision where our only focus is our own interest.
Those interests being our businesses, churches, customers, parishioners, employees, staff […]
I can vividly remember the TV commercial that was popular forty years ago, when we only had 3 channels and the kids were the remote control. The commercial asked the question “How do you spell relief”? Their answer was R.O.L.A.I.D.S…Tablets you would take for heartburn.
This morning I finally tackled a project I have put off for six months. Think about that for a minute. For the last 176 days I decided not to take any action on this project and kept moving it forward in my day planner!
This was […]
An opportunity was presented to us at work for a new opening as the sales Manager. All of the sales people were very excited about this and set up interviews for the position. Except for one…Me! I had NO intention of going for that position and I had every reason as to why I could not do it!
I was the youngest of the sales staff, I had the least amount of experience, I am an introvert by nature and very shy, I was satisfied with what and where I was, I did not want the extra […]
