New Fiscal Year With a New Goal: Synergy

July 2005 is the start of a new fiscal year for me. I like to set personal and work related goals at this point. For this site I have done some research to see what has been popular in the last few months. Business and personal development topics are at the top of the list. [...]

Success Idea: Promote Other Blogs

Dwayne Melancon over at Genuine Curiosity has a great post entitled “Tinkering in the Garage of my Mind.” The general idea of the post is to develop conversations with people that you meet on airplanes, Starbucks and generally anyplace in public. His post is further amplified by the positive experience he had when going through [...]

The Best Listener

When trouble comes and you need someone to lend an open ear, who better to come to the rescue than your faithful dog. Dogs are definitely the best listeners. They always pay attention, they never judge, and they almost always wag their tails in approval. My Cocker Spaniel is a great example.

Listening for Success: Resources

Over the past two weeks listening has been a major topic on this site. In writing on this subject I have learned a lot. I realized quickly that I wasn’t the most effective listener.This post is a list of some of the resources and sites that I have found in my journey to listen to [...]

New Job Success

Chris Bailey over at Soulful Work is seeking ideas to prepare for the first week on a new job. His new position is “membership director” and he wants some meaningful suggestions to help him reach out to his new co-workers. I did a little blog searching today and came up with some great posts that [...]

My Dad: A Person of Influence

As I think about Father’s Day, I realize I have been a very lucky person. My dad is a person of influence. He has all 10 tenets as listed in John Maxwell’s book, “Becoming a person of influence”. As I write this, my dad is 93 years old. He is still doing well and he [...]