What Would Dale Carnegie Do?

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I always find it helpful to read Dale Carnegie’s timeless book, How To Win Friends And Influence People at least once a year. I think it is especially helpful this time of year as we celebrate the holidays with office parties and get togethers. Here are ten things that I’ve gleaned from this timeless tome. [...]

Blogging Forward To 2009

With the year winding down, and the holidays upon us, I thought I would put some thoughts together for this blog for next year. Here are three ideas that I hope to bring to fruition. 1. Development of Larger “Postcard” size templates for Microsoft Word The most popular posts here at Success Begins Today have [...]

Pendulum Thinking

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This year has been the year of pendulums. We have had oil prices skyrocket and then fall precipitously. The housing market is on the downside of a huge multi-year pendulum having shot into the stratosphere and now coming back to find a bottom level. The stock market has had huge 900 point pendulum swings in [...]

Book Writing Tribe

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Seth Godin is one of my favorite authors. His unique world view on business, marketing, and personal development is engaging and brilliant. Currently he is offering his new book –Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us– for only 95 cents on iTunes. This is pure marketing genius and this simple price point has taken this [...]

Focus On Fifteen

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Seth Godin has a great post today about how, during bad times, we tend to focus on one thing–what is bad. He suggests that our business life is like a 4×4 grid. We have 16 different areas of focus such as location, reputation, staff etc. If this is a personal grid it might be your [...]

Quick Tip: Windows Hotkeys

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Many of us work in Microsoft Windows on our jobs or at home. We open programs all day long as well as doing file maintenance. In my daily job working for a large technology department, I run into users that have never heard of the popular hotkey’s in Windows that can save you time and [...]