Get Up, Get Dressed, Get Started

December 20, 2009 by James Blackburn · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Habits And Skills 

If you want to have a spec­tac­u­lar day, start the momen­tum off right and get off to a fast start!  Wake up early, dress in such a way that makes you feel good.  Take a glance in the mir­ror and tell your­self how good you look as you smile.

You be the con­troller of your emo­tion for the day, don’t let any­body else set it for you.  The first 30 min­utes of your morn­ing will set the tone for the rest of your day.  Read more

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Beware Small Poor Habits

April 8, 2009 by James Blackburn · Leave a Comment
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Char­ac­ter Build­ing with Small Habits

Can you remem­ber the last time you were in somebody’s car and it was an absolute dis­as­ter?  (Maybe they were even liv­ing out of it?)  Did you find that their car was an excep­tion to the tidy, orderly way they usu­ally live?

How about the fella that snaps at the wait­ress?  Is he just hav­ing a bad day or is he act­ing con­sis­tent with his rou­tine jerky ways?  How about the friend who just can’t decide where she wants to go to din­ner?

Is she just con­fused today, or is she con­fused every­day? Read more

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Brand New Day

April 8, 2009 by James Blackburn · Leave a Comment
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Brand New Day

Every day starts with an expec­ta­tion.  Some days are bet­ter than oth­ers.  At the end of every day, one thing holds true for every one of us.  That day is per­ma­nently gone and not one ounce of emo­tion is ever going to change that day.

Many of us fall vic­tim to car­ry­ing for­ward dis­ap­point­ment or dis­cour­age­ment into the next day.  This espe­cially hap­pens when you have an ongo­ing “to do” list that lasts for a month because there are too many things on the list. Read more

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Prequalifying Leads

April 6, 2009 by James Blackburn · Leave a Comment
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Free Sales Train­ing

There are many fea­tures which make some­body good in sales includ­ing per­son­al­ity, per­sis­tence, knowl­edge, trust­wor­thi­ness, and nego­ti­at­ing skills.

This arti­cle is about the one com­mod­ity that stays the same for every sales per­son, right from the first day they start to the last day of their career. That com­mod­ity is time.

Every morn­ing when you awake, there are 24 hours in a day, no more and no less. Learn­ing how to man­age your time effec­tively, so that you’re most pro­duc­tive in the least amount of hours is the most impor­tant key to becom­ing suc­cess­ful in any­thing. Read more

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