#MotivationMonday
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Categories: Goal Setting Inspirational Legacy Productivity
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Everyone wants to do something truly great, but few actually do. Why is that? By setting ‘reasonable’ goals for success, are we really setting ourselves up for failure? What will it take to push ourselves toward the big win?
In his upcoming book, “Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success,” Larry Weidel refines strategy from winners of all walks of life into five powerful tactics. Preview one below, and set yourself on a track to success with this new book, available 20 October.
Categories: Goal Setting Guest contributors Inspirational
By Will Swayne, Head of Strategy at Marketing Results and EO Brisbane member.
With market noise greater than ever, I’ve found that prospects who aren’t ready to buy tend to be resistant to even well-crafted marketing messages. “Sell benefits, not features” is good advice, but benefit-rich copy can paradoxically deter prospects who haven’t reached the decision stage yet. They’re just not ready for hard-hitting benefits; they want valuable content instead.
Categories: international Lessons Learned members PR/MARKETING
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By Erin Scannell, an EO Seattle Member and Founder of Heritage Wealth Advisors
The way in which I founded my company was an incredibly humbling experience and is something that, other than my wife, even the very closest people in my life aren’t aware of. I started it straight out of college in 1998, after having interviewed at 27 banks and wealth management firms without receiving a job offer.
Categories: Best Practices Inspirational members
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By Gabe Abshire, an EO Dallas member and CEO, Utility Concierge
Sometimes, there’s too much hard work at work. Getting things done is crucial in a functional business, but there’s another side to the productivity coin that’s too often ignored.
I’m talking about fun. People aren’t machines, we’re dynamic creatures with incredible creative potential. However, if we’re stuck in an environment where nothing unusual ever happens and we’re expected to sit still for hours on end and be ceaselessly productive, something weird happens—productivity actually plummets.
Categories: Company Culture Inspirational LEADERSHIP members
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Inspirational advice for entrepreneurs from the fearless female entrepreneur, Lori Greiner!
“In business, it is most often all about getting your foot in the door, and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.”
– Lori Greiner
Categories: Coaching FINANCES Inspirational WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
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By Clifford Holekamp, General Partner at Cultivation Capital
As successful entrepreneurs, we are often asked to invest in new startup companies. Last year, fellow EO St. Louis member Rick Holton and I professionalized our angel investment activities by joining three other veteran entrepreneurs, starting an early stage venture capital fund, Cultivation Capital. A recent Kaufman Foundation research report concluded that venture funds managed by former entrepreneurs yielded higher returns than those that weren’t, and our first two years of results are confirming that assertion. Reflecting back, we have recognized a few ways that our entrepreneurial experience has helped us be better investors.
Categories: Best Practices Coaching FINANCES Guest contributors Productivity
Tags: business startup clifford holekamp entrepreneurs' organization EO St. Louis investment startups
By Brandon Dempsey, an EO St. Louis member and partner of goBRANDgo!
Five Ways to Land the Clients You Want
Finding clients is hard work. People run from event to event, collecting stacks of business cards, praying someone, someday might actually call on their services. Unfortunately, they’re probably wasting their time. Simply meeting someone at a networking event doesn’t automatically ensure success.
Categories: FINANCES members Networking Partnerships
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By Adam Geha, an EO Sydney member and CEO of EG Funds Management
Legend has it that Buddha was once asked about the meaning of life. “To be awake”, he replied.
I was at university when I first read this story, and Buddha’s simple but startling response fell like a wash of ice on my slumbering psyche. I resolved thereafter to live my life as consciously and wilfully as possible, according to the values I held dear, without caring too much about the fashions of the day.
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By Greg McDonough, an EO DC member and CEO of EEI Communications
That’s the only way I know how to describe July 19th, my birthday and the day I battled against myself as I competed in IRONMAN Zurich.
With my family camped out race-side, and my friends cheering me on digitally via (an athlete tracker/race tracker/webcam?), I felt unstoppable. Combine that excitement and my adrenaline with my last year of training and you can imagine the laser-like focus I had on that finish line.
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