I know your nonprofit faces changes from every direction in this economic environment. Are you facing some of these challenges? • Doing more with less money • Decreasing donations for increasing needs • Aging donor base • Next generation stakeholders who want a different relationship with nonprofits • Global competition…
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Keeping a Journal – One of the Three Treasures to Leave Behind
If you’re serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don’t trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down. I used to take notes on pieces of paper and…
Continue Reading....Being Part of the Team
Being Part of the Team In high school I had the good fortune of having very demanding and knowledgeable football coaches. Our head coach’s name was Jim Haluska. He was one of the premier coaches in the state of Wisconsin. As I look back on my time with him I…
Continue Reading....A New Year, A New You
First, let me say Happy New Year to all of you. I appreciate your continued support. I’m looking forward to a great new year of solid content for you, so stay tuned. Second, like many people, the new year has me thinking about how to make improvements in my life.…
Continue Reading....Want to Get Involved?
As we get ready to go into a new year, I have a favor to ask. I’ve been asked to work on a project involving high school students across the country. My pilot program has over 400,000 high school students in it. As a former high school athlete and a…
Continue Reading....How to Take Your Leadership to the Next Level
Last week we posted the first half of the article by Brian Tracy on Leading and Motivating. Here’s the conclusion. The third quality is courage. It is the chief distinguishing characteristic of the true leader. It is almost always visible in the leader’s words and actions. It is absolutely indispensable…
Continue Reading....Success Is Easy, But So Is Neglect
People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set…
Continue Reading....Embracing Adversity for Achievement
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” — Lou Holtz Success in life depends upon being strong people with clear goals and indomitable spirits. Unfortunately most of us aren’t born that way. We grow that way. And that growth can…
Continue Reading....Five Tips For Creating Successful Habits
Fully 95% of everything you accomplish, or fail to accomplish, will be determined by your habits, either good or bad. Successful people have good habits that guide and direct them to ever greater success. Unsuccessful people have bad habits that trip them up throughout their lives. Here are five things that…
Continue Reading....When Less Is More
Entrepreneurs, by nature, instinct, conditioning, competitive spirit are very into “more”. So are sales professionals. More gross revenues. More sales. More customers or clients. More web site traffic. More leads. Even more square footage, more employees. But more is not necessarily better, not necessarily more profitable or even proportionately profitable.…
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