“Limit your Pity Party”. Well, I threw a hell of a Pity Party March 20th, 2020 @ 2:30 p.m. prior to having to lay off my entire staff of 45 employees as a “non-essential business” for the first time in my life. BUT, those negative emotions of pity, depression, etc… don’t help you with solutions […]
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Two years ago today, March 17th, 2020, I wrote in my daily journal that was documenting my Leap Year of Firsts for my first book… “No Salary – Worked for Free.” This was at the start of the pandemic when my awards business, that I worked at for over forty-five years and now own, was
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Last Thursday, February 24th at 7:30 a.m. I gave my First LIVE paid speech in front of a room of people at Paris Casino in Las Vegas. I was there for the Awards and Personalization Association’s education day. I was one of the speakers on the docket. No one threw anything at me, and no
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A number of years ago I sat in a conference room filled with fellow managers, owners and CEO’s. The topic was Corporate Culture and the presenter was sharing how to develop Core Values for your organization. We were challenged with the thought of having to start a new civilization on another planet. In starting that
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I’m not sure my company makes it through to survive the many challenges that 2020 and the pandemic presented me and my organization without relying on our established Core Values! I don’t write my first book – A Leap Year of Firsts. We leaned on and depended on our Core Values that we had established
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“Open yourself to new ideas and new things even if you find you don’t like them in the end – but at least knowing them has taken you that much further along into being a more experienced and well-rounded person in this world.” -Josh Barnett- This quote was posted by my new-found friend Diane, who
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“Just as ripples spread out When a single pebble is dropped into water, The actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.“ — Dalai Lama In writing a book and living a life “It Takes a Village.” I recognized this village in the acknowledgement chapter at the end of my book – A Leap Year of
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Tomorrow night my first book launch party, for my first book – A LEAP YEAR of FIRSTS, is being thrown for me. Never having had a launch party I googled what to do at a book launch party. One of the points was to read an except from the book for your guests. Following was
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Being a newly minted author has presented opportunities this past week to meet and be introduced to some amazingly inspirational people. Blessed. I would like to share these meetings and introduce you to these inspirations. I was referred to and was interviewed by Mary Fran Bontempo and Kristin Smedley for their Podcast called “Brilliantly Resilient”
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I had to share the following email (and unfortunately for you the picture above) that I received shortly after the publishing of my first book last month. I have received a few similar emails from the few that have read it. When people heard that I was doing a Leap Year of Firsts and writing
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