I must thank a fellow student on John Milton Fogg’s 90 day challenge, a delightful young woman who I will just refer to as “K” for the inspiration for this post. We were discussing goals, conditions of satisfaction and I mentioned the thoughts and conclusions described here, she suggested I write about it. If…

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it” – Goethe.
I was reminded of this quote earlier this week when I heard the news that the Russian Navy had successfully freed a Russian oil tanker that had been captured by Somali pirates.
Although I have long…

Yesterday the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, made the mistake of passing some unflattering comments about a voter with whom he had been speaking moments before.
He was not aware that his microphone was still live as he got in his official vehicle to go to his next appointment.
The comments were picked up and…

Coaches and sales trainers frequently teach that we should find a way to relate quickly to our prospects. That first impressions are hard to change. If our prospects and customers don’t find it comfortable to be in a conversation with us then they are not going to do business with us.
Much work has…

A recent survey published on the Sympatico home page revealed that only 1% of the respondents use twitter frequently to follow other users. 2% use twitter infrequently.
The big surprise is that 97% do not use twitter at all.
Given that many Canadians spend a lot time on Facebook, why not twitter?
If you have an…

It seems most people I talk to are always trying to be more productive and get more done in the same 24 hours we all have each day.
Here’s a very useful social media tool that saves me a huge amount of time. I use it to schedule posts to twitter and Facebook, find followers,…

How difficult do you think it is to change a habit?
Many experts in the field of personal development suggest that it takes 28 days to change a habit, be it a thought pattern or the way we do a set of actions – like which sock or shoe do we put on first?
Habits can…

Two interesting articles on how baby boomers are becoming inceasingly more active on the web caught my attention this week.
In the first, Shannon Proudfoot of Canwest News Service quoted from Statistics Canada that 88 % of boomer internet users and 90% of seniors use e-mail. This is the most popular online activity for both…

Here we are in the opening days of Spring. Are you one of
the 8% of Americans who successfully achieved their New
Year’s resolutions? If not, would you like to be?
It doesn’t matter whether you want to lose weight, reduce or
eliminate stress or depression, sleep better, improve
…

Are you suffering from information overload?
Many new and experienced Internet Marketers complain of being overwhelmed by the flood of information on the web, filling email in boxes and social media groups.
How do we find a balance between keeping up to date on the latest innovations and getting so bogged down in trying to learn…