I was reading how more people have died on the descent from Mount Everest than on the ascent. According to data compiled by the Himalayan Database between 1953 and 2020, a total of 3,954 people have reached the summit of Mount Everest. 303 have died on the mountain and of those deaths, 172 occurred during […]
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Setting your goals for 2023 It was November, a month after my 40th Birthday Caryn and I were flying to our annual convention taking place in Atlanta Georgia. We were particularly excited as this was the first time we were attending as business owners, and it was Caryn’s first-time away from our daughters. That trip
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I shared in a previous article how the summer for 2022 was a particularly challenging one. My mom passed away after a bout with Pancreatic Cancer. It was swift and I was sad, feeling down and certainly feeling the stress of not being there for the family. In truth, living over 8100 miles away adds
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It’s been a rough summer for me. I have been sad and feeling low for just about all of it! My mom (Rina) received a diagnosis that she has Cancer in late June early July. I mentioned to my dad I wanted to come down to South Africa (from North Carolina) and he stated positively
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Our first born is going off to college and this is really a big deal for my wife and I. To be honest I am not sure that as parents, we are 100% ready for it. Like most things, if I find myself pondering on a problem for more than two nights, it means a
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I was co-facilitating a program with Doug Stewart when we got onto the topic of motivation. Doug was sharing how being self-motivated is not a success factor, having self-discipline is. The example we spoke through was getting up to exercise. When we wake-up, we are not motivated at all. In fact, we only really feel
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I get my competitiveness from my mom, and it was certainly compounded growing up with two brothers. It started early in life for me, competing with my brothers playing yard soccer and “rough-ball.” This competitiveness continued throughout my schooling, and it showed up in my work as financial planner and training consultant. Being competitive is
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…is about how we communicate, what we communicate. At Dale Carnegie we know that people classify us as leaders and communicators in fours ways: what we do, how we look, what we say and how we say it. As we engage with others (at work or personally), we need to be aware of the message
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I attended an event recently where the speakers shared how organizations must review compensation, develop a work schedule that allows for flexibility and look at benefits offered and revise these to what the post Covid workforce desires it to be. This will aid in attracting talent! The experts are not wrong – compensation matters, benefits
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Setting our goals for the year is easy. We reflect on the past and then review the year ahead and put a high-level plan of action into play. For sales team members this could be a weekly planning sheet that aligns activities to our monthly project list. Where do we begin? I would suggest doing
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