A new year is a great time for planning and putting into practice those plans that will propel us into the new year and beyond. If you want/need to grow your business, an important piece to the plan is meeting people. My friend Jacob, made a new year’s resolution in 2016 to dine/break bread/coffee/sweatwork with at least 250 different people, of which at least...
Read MoreIn the beginning … You know, when you’re starting out and trying to build your business and you can’t tell if what you’re doing is really making a difference? The you open your email … “Dear Cathy, we’ve never met but twice during this morning I was given your name as someone I had to talk to. My friend saw...
Read MoreNo, nothing has caught fire but your business could burn a bit brighter just by implementing this simple strategy. During any time of the year that business is a bit slower paced, you have plenty of opportunities to make an impression with a “Stop & Drop” If you are not familiar with what a “Stop & Drop” is, it’s this in a nutshell: you “Stop” in on a...
Read MoreNext to buying my first car, this was a BIG investment. I still remember when I wrote my first $1500 cheque for coaching – it felt like it could have been a million dollars. I actually hesitated signing the cheque. As a wife and a mother, I could see a list of other things that the $1500 could pay for – groceries, kid’s shoes, a credit card payment, but I knew it...
Read MoreThis was posted on “Eat Pray Love” author, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook page. It doesn’t need any other words from me. “Years ago, a wise woman told me this, and I’ve never forgotten it. Don’t get too proud, she said, of your capabilities at handling anything — or soon people will expect you to handle everything. The...
Read MoreFacebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Skype, LinkedIn, Google+, Reddit, Yelp … and the list goes on. We are so ‘connected’, we are disconnected. What does it mean to be truly connected? I understand that technology is a part of our lives but there’s a disturbing trend that has been building over the years – there are way...
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