Mindset and Motivation

Master Minds – The Panel

(L-R) Dondi Scumaci, Sally Hogshead, Mark Sanborn and Bob Burg with Dixie Gillaspie (not pictured) as moderator.

"Two factors for success:

• Focus
• Reciprocity

Tension between who can help you and who you can help." ~ Mark 

"Ask really hard questions" ~ Sally 

"Solving a business problem" ~ Dondi 

"Aligned with organizational priorities" ~ Dondi

"Info is easy, insight is powerful" ~ Unknown

Overall: Don't go it alone. Use master minds, coaches and mentors for personal and business success.

Colleen Barrett – All 5 Laws at […]

Like most people that go to a business conference, seminar or retreat… I tend to get very pumped up and enthusiastic. Then I get back to the office and get busy. Then after some time passes, most of the lessons are forgotten and put aside.

One way around this is to revisit your notes a while after the conference and reflect on the points that resonated the most with you. After you've done that, pick a few and figure out how to integrate them into your business and personal life by implementing and making them habits.

All of the speakers were truly […]

You know that feeling you get when you drive home along a familiar route and afterwards you don't remember any of the drive?

That is what running on auto-pilot is like.

Your brain is amazing. If you've done things repeatedly the same in the past before, you can do them again with little thought or effort required.

The same is true if you are doing something simple or low risk. You don't need to fully engage.

In both cases you can run on auto-pilot and safely get to your destination.

Until something changes suddenly. Or until a danger suddenly appears.

Then you will be present again.

But it […]

Assuming I set New Year's resolutions I would have the following and more:

• Get more sleep on a regular basis,
• Exercise more,
• Eat better,
• Lose 10 pounds,
• Achieve more business and financial success,
• Balance my time over all areas of my life,
• Have a neater and more organized work space,
• Waste less time on distractions,
• Deal with stress better,
• Travel to Mars.

But if I haven't done those things consistently in the past, what makes me think I will do them in early 2012? Why am I making a big list of things I will likely fail at?

The problem with resolutions is that we tend to focus on the things we aren't happy with… […]

In the previous post I talked about how to intercept the flow of money. This post addresses investing, borrowing, the master plan and concludes the series.

But What About Investing?

When you invest money you no longer have it in your possession. What you have is either a promise to give you your money plus interest back or you have ownership of shares in a company or other investment vehicles.

Cash investments are loaned to others so the money can be spent on something of value.

When you invest in a company you are either buying the shares (at their perceived value) […]

Have you ever heard someone say that there is no shortage of money, in fact there is an abundance of it? This is what the rich understand and the poor do not.

I’ve heard it quite a few times, several times in the last week alone.

What does this really mean? I had to really think about it too.

The following is my take on what they mean about how money really works. Like most things, there is a reason it is important and some important lessons to be learned that go with it. So I encourage you to stick with […]

The other night I woke up with a burning sensation in my left eye. It felt like something major was in there and my eye started watering like crazy. I spent 30 minutes flushing out my eye to no avail.

I was starting to think I would be heading off to emergency. My eyes seem to attract problems for some strange reason. I was also thinking there go my business plans for the next few days.

From past lessons I knew that rubbing is very bad. Scratched corneas take a while to heal and are quite painful.

I decided to have another go […]

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the influence of criticism and negative thinking on yourself and others. I have two major motivations:

1. I want to grow as a person,
2. I want to support our companies mission (To help people achieve their full potential).

Have you ever met someone who is perpetually positive about everything? How about the opposite?

Yet the reality is most people, myself included, are usually somewhere in the middle. We go through highs and lows emotionally and express those feelings externally in how we deal with others.

Our frame of reference, beliefs, other feelings and a host of other things […]