Your Turn! | De-Lurk Day 2016

Did you know that it’s almost our anniversary? Blush. Well, in a sense.  This blog went online October 18th, 2011 – so I’ve been sitting on my virtual sofa here, quietly teaching about psychology for almost five years. And I do think of this as a quiet space.  There are plenty of glassy, loud, flashing…

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You’d Get More Done If You Stopped Doing This

I was thinking about you guys while I was cleaning the bathrooms a few weeks ago. (This’ll make sense in a minute.) For reasons passing my understanding, the builder of my house decided to include 4 bathrooms.  The house is not that big.  I have no idea who would think it needed four toilets, but…

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Is It Time To Change Your Packages?

Kenneth Cole said something interesting in Forbes this month. He learned quickly after starting a footwear company that his job isn’t just to “create great-looking shoes.” He had to find out what people wanted to wear, then give it to them – just in his own way. This mental shift is elegantly simple – but…

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Why Do People Always Pick My Middle Package?

Actual subject line that landed in my inbox: “Help me solve a sales mystery, please?” Well, fetch me my cape, Watson!  There are games afoot! (Obviously I watch too much BBC.  Also, I like good subject lines.) The email: I know there has to be an answer to this quandary, I just can’t find it.…

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Making Business Friends – Good News For Introverts

“Networking.” As an introvert, that unwelcome word makes me picture standing around at a busy event trying to talk to people when I’d rather be home reading. Ugh. But we know for a fact that relationships mean everything – in life and in business.  Relationships can create emotional and material wealth, lift us, strengthen us,…

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