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Don’t Look at the Wall (and There is Always a Wall)

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for.

Every day, I drive 30 minutes up a winding mountain canyon, typically surrounded by cars and semis going 80 miles an hour. There is a quarter of a lane between the painted line on the pavement and the cement barrier keeping you away from the side of the mountain. People around you are texting, it’s windy, big trucks create their own vortex; you are often not in your own lane. To stay on track you have to look ahead quite a ways. The secret is to never look at the wall. If you look at the wall you will hit the wall.

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“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

Adding Audible to my life has dramatically improved my book club performance. DRAMATICALLY. And it’s been interesting too. I don’t care for when the narrator changes the word “book” to “audiobook.” Like, it wasn’t written as an audiobook, so to say “When I sat down to write this audiobook, …” that isn’t what the author intended. And a note about hi we’re changing chapters would be nice too. But I digress.

The book I just finished on Audible was Thrive by Arianna Huffington, read by her sister Agapi Stassinopoulos. There are a lot of uncomfortable comments on the narration but I thought Agapi’s accent was beautiful and when Arianna writes about her mother’s death you can hear it in Agapi’s voice. There you are, driving along, next thing you know you’ve stumbled in on a very intimate moment, listening to a daughter describe her mother leaving this world, and JFC WHERE ARE THE TISSUES I’M SORRY OFFICER I’M FINE IT’S JUST THIS BOOK ON TAPE.

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“How to be a Power Connector”

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

PowerConnectorThanks to Audible.com, I finished a book club book! I’ve been listening to podcasts in the car (Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series is a great one) but my broker recommended Audible a few weeks ago and pointed out that it was a great way to keep from showing up numb because all you’ve done the whole drive is listen to SiriusXm’s 80s on 8. Which is exactly how I feel after a commute: numb and bored (no offense, 1980s, I can’t wait until I’m old enough to feel ways about things.) Sometimes I’m in the mood for music, but usually I’m in the mood to put my mind on something.

How to be a Power Connector was a good book to knock out on a commute. Most of the information is all tips and tricks you know already, but here’s the thing: if you spend 30 minutes listening to somebody tell you how critical their network is, you darn well better believe you show up to your office and start working your SOI. So get thee to Audible.com, there are lots of promo codes to give you one or three months free (which translates into 1 free book per month), and give it a shot.

Happy Monday! Knock ’em dead!

 

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Tips to Help Your #Hustle: Stephen Colbert’s Great Advice

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

Another great site I like to follow is Inc.com. Loads of great articles on all manner of business items, and all written with a decent sense of humor. Stephen Colbert started his reign as the new Late Show host last week, and Inc ran a timely article quoting some of the splendid advice Colbert has dished out in his life.

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Remember, no matter happened last week, you are only as good as your last deal. Dig deep. Find solutions. Offer before you are asked. Get the job done better than anybody else can. Happy Monday. Game on.

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Tips to Help Your #Hustle: Sell the Why

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

In another great share by my broker, Thomas Wright at Summit Sotheby’s International Realty, this excellent TED Talk discusses getting to the heart of what you’re selling. Applicable to every single entrepreneur ever, and some great points that go beyond the usual “sell features and benefits” discussion.

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I read an article once that suggested that entrepreneurs read one article and watch one TED Talk per day for self-improvement. I can’t say I’ve been faithful to that kind of commitment but hey, sometimes we start small. And this? This is a good place to start.

Remember, just because it’s Labor Day doesn’t mean we can’t take some time to clarify our vision, streamline our processes, and revisit our purpose. It’s still Monday, y’all. Game on.

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Tips to Help Your #Hustle: Barbara Cocoran’s “F*ck You” Speech

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

Today’s tip comes from Entrepreneur.com, a great place for articles on building your business, leadership, work-life balance and management. Seriously. Follow them on Facebook and Twitter for just a quick sliver of the value they can bring to your day-to-day activities.

Barbara Cocoran pulls no punches. Remind yourself: You have as much right to be here as anybody else. 

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Remember, it’s the start of a new week, a new chance to build our business, tighten our procedures, clarify our direction. It’s Monday. GAME ON.

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Tips to Help Your #Hustle: Book Club Book “The Book of Awesome”

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

Since I am busy not reading this month’s book club book (not fair, actually I’m half-way through) I wanted to share a previous month’s book club that I legitimately didn’t read all the way through. And that’s okay. It wasn’t exactly written as a beginning, middle, end-type book. It’s more of a flipper. The Book of Awesome, by Neil Pasricha.

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Each page is a different episode of something being awesome. Like taking off your bra after a long day. Like when a grocery store opens up a new checkout aisle just as you walk to the front. Like fresh laundry out of the dryer: AWESOME. Some pages are filled with a story, others are one line. It’s a book to flip through and pause and chuckle and remember that though we work very hard for Big Successes, truly enjoying our experience comes from appreciating the little bits of awesome.

(The club I’m a part of is run by Amy Cairn of Academy Mortgage. Have you read this book? Let me know what you thought in the comments.)

Remember, it’s the start of a new week, a new chance to build our business, tighten our procedures, clarify our direction. It’s Monday. GAME ON.

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Tips to Help Your #Hustle: Book Club Book, “Raving Fans”

As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.

Okay so between you and me, I don’t always read the whole book club book. The club I’m a part of is run by Amy Cairn of Academy Mortgage. All the books are great additions for personal and professional development, and thanks to the dynamic of group guilt, I am reading more of these books than I normally would. However, if I’m honest, some months I’m not sorry to see parables and big margins. August’s book fits that bill: Raving Fans, by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles.

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There isn’t an industry that couldn’t be improved by building rapport with customers. I sell real estate, and my clients should be so madly in love with my service that they tell their friends. Amy is a mortgage broker who provides this book club service, and here I am telling you about her. Word of mouth advertising is serious business, especially when I can just click “Tweet” and tell 900 people about my experience instantly. I’m excited to get through this one, and will report back on what I see in it that applies to my business.

(Have you read this book? Let me know what you thought in the comments.)

Remember, it’s the start of a new week, a new chance to build our business, tighten our procedures, clarify our direction. It’s Monday. GAME ON.