What now? Pivoting Through COVID-19

Right now, you may be sitting at home not knowing what to do. You might be one of the thousands furloughed or let go due to COVID-19. And that really sucks. Or maybe you’re one of the essential workers that aren’t getting treated fairly for the hard work and risk you’re putting into just being at your job. That also …

How we learn and how to achieve mastery

There is a lot of focus on learning and improving in the circles that I run in.  Many people want to learn something and move onto the next thing, leaving a lot of opportunity available for people who really want to focus and learn something to the point of mastery.  If you want to be the best at something, it …

Don’t Be Results Oriented

If I could buy a billboard and put one thing on it, it would be this: “Don’t Focus on Results” With so much in this world that we can’t control, why do we put so much emphasis just on the end product? What do I mean by being too focused on results? Here are the kinds of self-defeating, results-focused statements …

A Deep Sales Pipeline Impacts Your Ability to Sell

There are a lot of things that can stand in the way of success in sales and a salesperson. We can make assumptions, we can give too much information away, we can devalue out time or our product. Most of these things happen when we are too attached to a potential sale and that all goes back to our sales …

Saying No Will Help You Crush Your Goals

If you are running a new business, you’re a freelancer, or you’re a salesperson, it can be very hard to tell people no. You might feel obligated to take a project on because of how an email is worded, or because you think that you’ll earn future business if you do this one last task for free. Look at all …