Here’s the real deal. We all know what to do. We know what we need.  And we can see the path others need to follow, like a yellow brick road lit up with neon lights. BUT when it comes to our own path, for whatever reason, it doesn’t seem that clear.  When I was working with marketing coach, Fabienne Fredrickson, founder of BoldHeart, she often said, “You can’t give yourself a good haircut.”  And that is the reality. You can’t

It’s been a LONG two years since the global pandemic began, and if you are anything like me, you have experienced the weight of constant worry and decision making. To combat the worry and endless decisions to be made, you may have tried relaxation techniques to try to help you through these difficult times. I know I have. I have tried using things like calming tea, long hot baths, visualization, etc. And while these have felt good, and they also

What’s something you do each morning to start your day? One of my personal practices is pulling a guidance card every morning. Some people call this divination, and some people use this as a spiritual practice. You may be familiar with it, for example, with tarot cards or Oracle cards, or even as simple as flipping through the Bible or other religious texts and letting your eyes, mind, and spirit guide you to the message that you need for that

All of these words may seem powerful yet daunting, comforting yet impossible. But let’s take a minute to work through these concepts and how you can apply them to your business to get better results. Let’s start by going back to the Implementation Function. IMPLEMENT ∫(STRATEGY) = RESULTS = GROWTH = IMPACT This function says that when you apply implementation to strategy, you get Results, Growth, Impact.  Last week, we discussed how one of the things missing from this equation

When so many businesses and strategies were tossed up in the air in 2020, now may be the perfect time to talk about continuous improvement in order to refocus and evaluate what’s working and what isn’t. Attila Dobai helps growth-focused businesses set a strategy and implement systems and processes to drive growth. He accomplishes this by aligning data with their people, processes, and strategy. Attila is sharing what businesses need to know right now about continuous improvement. What’s the definition

What lessons does ADHD offer everyone when it comes to productivity? The challenge for all of us as we go through this information overload world that we live in is to sort through all the information and to make choices. You need to make choices about what is the most, about what to do first. What do I do second? What do I perhaps never do? We’re balancing multiple goals and multiple priorities. Some things are really fun, and we

I received more than one reply to last week’s blog post about: IMPLEMENT ∫(STRATEGY) = RESULTS = GROWTH = IMPACT All of you were on board with the Implementation is a Function of Strategy that yields Results, Growth, and Impact – which is great to hear. But…you had, well, I’m going to call them “concerns.” And one of the most pressing concerns you had was: Time to Implement. There’s the rub.   We have NO TIME.  We are doing so much. And the work we are doing is important. Our

Recently I was working with my team member, Robin Blackburn; you might recall she is the editor of my book, What Businesses Need To Know Right Now, and we were brainstorming for a new campaign that will be going live soon. The concept that kept bubbling up to the top was ‘Strategy.’ We were thinking about how important working with a strategy is to actualize the vision that you create. How it is necessary for effective decision making. How it

  How can young business owners leverage their mentors and professional contacts that might be just out of reach for them? What are your recommendations? This is such a relevant question, especially in the conversations that you and I have had in the past, because really, my solution to this is meeting people just like you, Nettie, and finding people that you can click with that might be a little older than you or they might be your same age,

  I was barely 17 when my nephew, Dylan, was born and it was 7 ½ years before there was another niece to put my attention to. In those 7 ½  years, I graduated high school, graduated college, got married, moved across the country to California and back to Maryland, and I started my company, now The Sappari Group. I was 24 years old. I had started working at a young age, being entrepreneurial from the get go. At 10