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Something for Something
I travel on this journey to gain the life that I want to gain. I hit the potholes and the set-backs and keep moving forward because of my conviction, my commitment, and my Why. I also keep moving forward because of sacrifice. Sacrifice is the flip side to my...
Learning to Thrive
Thrive instead of Survive: Through my day to day life, I have found that most of the time I am surviving. I am doing those things that I must to in order to have the basic necessities in our modern world, somewhere to live, food, transportation and such. Most...
Small steps towards Sucess
Breaking Up Our Goals: When we set out to change our lives, we set large and impressive goals for ourselves, goals that will change the way we live our lives. This is exactly what we should be doing, but that can be rather daunting at times. For me, I find that there...
The Power of The Silent Sell
One mistake of many salespeople is to think that they need to do the majority of the talking since they are the person “in the driver’s seat” and knowledgeable about the products. While it is true the sales person knows the product, even car salesfolk know, you...
Sunday Story Time – A Grimm Night in the Forest Part 1
A Grimm Night in the Forest By Ming Drake The snow fell with massive force outside the burning coal clouds of the city as Grimm stood huddled against a large tree. The lights of the town he had just left burned below in the gloom of the evening, their...
Proof of Progress
An interesting thing happened to me recently; I had to go into the courthouse to serve my jury duty. This isn’t the first time that I have done this, in fact I am one of those people that get a jury summons almost every year. The last time I got a summons I was about...
selling slumps 🙁
We have all been told at one point or another in our careers that we should not have any attachment to the response of our customer/prospect. It does not matter if they do not want to buy the product, there will be others and having a strong desire for a specific...
I Want to be My Best
Our Best Self: So what is our best self? What are those aspects of how we feel and how we act on those days that we are feeling our best? This is a question that everyone should ask and has started me thinking about my best self and what that means to...
What do I need to do?
Always Act, Never React: With everything that has been going on in the world recently, it has me thinking about a lesson I learned many years ago and how it has improved my life in countless ways. Today will be a little different than most of my posts as I won’t be...
What’s Your Story?
The Stories of Our Lives: Every day of our lives we are creating a story, a tale that we tell at parties or other social events; a tale that we tell in our posture, our mannerisms and our speech even. Yet even though we think about our stories often, very rarely do we...