1. Steve Pavlina Self Development
This one is a must see. It's subtitled: Personal Development for Smart People and it is one of the better blogs I've found on the subject. None of the smarmy, touchy-feely crap a lot of personal development sites have nor is it 'I'm the Smart Person & the rest of you are dummies' either. Just articles & challenges to help you make conscious decisions about where you are and take action towards where you want to be.
2. Follow Up Made Easy
If you are looking for a cost effective way to market offline, you can't beat postcards. Most of the time, the postcards you see come in the 'cheap & common' variety. The person who sent it is perceived the same way. That's where this company stepped in to take postcard marketing to a whole new and refreshing level of service. They offer cards that are attractive and colorful for you to send to prospects, clients or special customers that will make your business stand out from the rest.
3. Rocket Spanish
I'm recommending this one because in high school this was the one language that interested me, not French (though they now have both French and German courses). What I like about this is you can take it pretty much anywhere the primary language is Latin based and still be understood. Mauricio is originally from Chile, so you are getting authenticity (authenticity=not a fake) in the quality of the audio. Highly recommended if you need to get up to speed fast.
4. Womans Net
Have you been looking for a site to network with other women? Then you might like what's on offer here. Slowly it's growing and I'm helping to get the word out because I think women just work better when we network in a non-compete environment. Take a look.
That's enough to keep you busy a couple hours. Just getting through Steve's blog will make your blood pressure go up with all the good information you'll get on taking care of you and your business.
Here's a question I'd like you to think about this week: What are your non-negotiables? Uh-oh, Georjina has been drinking too much coffee again. I have but that's not the point! It's just something we all should give some thought. What is it that is a deal breaker for you - in your personal life or your business life?
A deal breaker for me would be repeating to a third party something told to you in confidence. Excuses won't cut it. At that point it's over - no compromise, no my bad and for all intent, you can ES&D (New Yorkers know exactly what that means!) there is nothing further to discuss. Trust is a big non-negotiable for me and maybe for you.
There are many instances when in business we do forget that what we are doing is asking our customers to believe we are who we say we are and therefore trustworthy. But if we market one way and then do business another, essentially we have broken the deal with our customers.
That's it for now and I leave you with this:
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.-Steven Covey
