Is it time for a vacation?

Vacation Time? What do you do to relax, renew and rewind from your business? When was your last vacation? When did you last take time to play? Here’s a little pop quiz for you: The reason that I started my own business was that I wanted to: a. Do things my way and not have…

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Teaching kids to manage negative feelings

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Kids and Self Talk A typical classroom lesson on recognizing feelings is useful and gives kids a common language for expressing their feelings.  However, it is a basic lesson and doesn’t really cover all the bases in helping kids manage feelings, especially negative ones.   What can we teach the child who needs anger management strategies or…

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Wonder where your clients are?

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Connecting with your Ideal Clients In my line of work as a business coach, I talk with a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs who aren’t making the sales that they expected. Heck they aren’t even making enough sales to justify their business as a business rather than a hobby.  Many are confused and discouraged. They have…

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Personality Style and Sales

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How personality impacts sales Business is about sales and  sales is about relationships.  While you may think that your business is about your unique product or your quality service it is ultimately about the relationships that you create and nurture around your product or service.  Whenever people are involved there is the possibility of either…

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Teaching kids about feelings

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Body Language and Feelings A standard lesson that I taught every year as an elementary school counselor was recognizing feelings. It was a fun lesson. I’d bring in large cut outs of children showing mad, sad, happy or scared feelings and ask kids to guess how the child was feeling. We’d talk about body language and how…

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Now is the time

Stop the Waiting Game and Take Action In September 2001, my husband passed away suddenly of an aortic dissection.  He was 51 years old. Our children were 17 and 20.  As you might imagine in the midst of the tragedy and grief, there were a lot of what ifs. There always are when there is…

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