Archive - March, 2009

I stopped dreaming long ago

March 25, 2009 in Finding Passion, No More Mondays, Personal Development with 6 Comments

Here’s a note I just received from a No More Mondays reader: 

Yes, I still do 8.5 hours of time in my “human filing cabinet” each day.  Yes, I still dream of breaking out and finding my true calling. Yes, I’m still scared to death to do so. I stopped dreaming so long ago that I can’t even remember what I loved to do when I was 20, much less 5. I just remember loving baseball more than anything else. Maybe I should get a glove and a ball and find a wall and play catch with myself for a dozen hours, and my dreams might start to come back.  Hmmm.  Maybe I will.  Read more »

Don’t Chase That Snake!

March 24, 2009 in No More Mondays, Personal Development with 6 Comments

When I was 10 years old, one of my best friends was Bob Queen.  One afternoon while exploring the back acreage of our neighboring farms, a snake bit Bob. Seeing the snake slither off, my immediate response was to run after the snake, track him down and repay the scoundrel for what he had done to my friend.  Bob, however, being a much wiser hunter and outdoorsman, quickly pulled out his knife, lanced the bite, sucked the blood out and spit out the poison.  The focus for him was on his own well being, not on repaying the snake.  Read more »

Think you can or think you can’t

March 16, 2009 in No More Mondays, Personal Development with 2 Comments

As a career coach I’m being contacted by lots of other career coaches right now wondering what to do.  The common theme seems to be that with things so tight right now no one is going to spend money on a non-necessity like “coaching.”  Please help me understand this – there were 509,000 job losses in the last quarter of last year, 589,000 more in the month of January and over 600,000 in February.  How could it possibly be a better time to be in the business of career coaching than right at this very minute?  Read more »

Making Money and Marriages

March 2, 2009 in Finding Passion, No More Mondays, Personal Development with 5 Comments

Here is the sequence for successful selling – of anything. 

  1. Developing rapport and trust – 40% of the process.
  2. Identifying Needs – 30% of the process.
  3. Product Presentation – 20% of the process.
  4. Closing – 10% of the process.

I see people coming in to 48Days.net and immediately blasting multiple blog posts with their greatest MLM company that you just must join.  I see people wanting jobs who simply walk in and tell the manager they need a job.  I see car salesmen who grab a customer and walk them right over to the Chevy Tahoe because that’s where they make the most commission.  I see pastors who scream that their listeners are evil and must change their ways.   Read more »

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