Success
As we’ve all seen for the last year or two, there’s been a lot of shoplifting. A pack of thieves breaking into stores, stealing massive amounts of merchandise, and leaving before the cops come. If they’re caught, they’re back on the streets in a couple of minutes. Shoplifting has gotten to such a high degree…
I want you to meet Alex. Alex is a van driver who picked me and a few of my colleagues up from the hotel in Albuquerque this weekend to take us to the airport. It was a seven-minute ride. During the ride, Alex asked us if we had traveled to many different cities and ordered…
If you truly want to keep your competitors out of your accounts, you must become part of the inner woven fabric of your client’s organization. Consider that loose piece of thread sticking out of the bottom of your sweater, and you start pulling it. All of a sudden, you inadvertently pull apart the entire sweater.…
A few years ago, I was taking a self-improvement course in New York City with a good friend of mine. After the program, we returned to my condo in Fort Lee, New Jersey, on the 10th floor. Now, my friend is an accomplished pilot. He flew overseas commercially for a major airline and was a…
This past Sunday, we had a great Super Bowl with an overtime win—the San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs. Both teams had two different styles of quarterbacks. One of the reasons both teams made it to the Super Bowl was because their head coaches leveraged each quarterback’s strengths. Coach Andy Reid, with the…
In 2006, I collaborated on a negotiation book with famed negotiator, Herb Cohen. Herb has a saying that negotiation is a game, a game that both sides want to win. Yet, most people lose velocity in their efforts to negotiate a deal because they are married to getting the deal exactly the way they want…
25 years ago, when I started my speaking and consulting business, I started my first office in an executive suite. I met this person who worked for a computer company and we developed a friendship. Every morning we’d come to work, we would meet in the kitchen, and we’d have our morning coffee. We would…
Now that we have started 2024, and we’re looking at our New Year’s resolutions, the question is, “How do we execute them?” Here’s what I want you to think about: If you have more than one New Year’s resolution, and you’re trying to work on more than one at a time, that is a problem. This…
So, what’s all this talk about mindset? Mindset is so important because it dictates what your actions will be. Mindset is everything about your state of being. It’s about your skill sets, it’s about your belief system. It’s about how you see the world. That state of being leads to the decisions that you make.…
As you create your sales plan for 2024, what’s the one issue you must pay special attention to? That one issue is your ideal customer profile, because that’s going to determine whether or not you gain velocity in your sales efforts. Picture business 2012: I was just voted as the Vice President of the National…
Every time you set upon doing something new, there is a doubt. It could be a fear of whether it will work. Or it could involve going through that nuisance pain of trying to learn how to do something new. Self-doubts come in all kinds of forms, but the question is: Are you letting it stop…
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Today is an exciting day, as I received my new book, The Velocity Mindset® in the mail. The result of work that was done over the past 14 months has finally appeared in my hands. So what does it take to successfully complete such a major project? Find out in this video! #VelocityMindset #leadership #ReachYourGoals…
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Velocity is not simply about doing more in less time. Velocity is about getting past all the fears that are stopping you from moving forward. In this video, I share a true story from the “Love’s Executioner” book written by the famed therapist, Irvin Yalom. So pay attention, because there’s a valuable lesson in it.…
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I keep telling my clients that the more you know about your markets and your clients the more velocity you will gain. Why? Because every time we get new bits of information, it triggers our creativity. The problem is, most of us don’t go for additional information. We simply go with what we know. So…
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I’d like to end 2020 with the valuable lessons we learned from Jerry Stiller, who passed away earlier this year of natural causes at the age of 92. Brought back by popular demand, this video celebrates and honors the renowned and legendary comedian, whose long and successful career is a great example of someone who…
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You truly are living the Velocity Mindset when you can clearly visualize what success looks like to you. Visualization is about creating your destiny from scratch. You must put aside all your biases, fears and past experiences. But how do you do that in times of crisis? How do you get over the pain and…
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When going through tough times, having a clear focus and concentrating on fewer things that are critical to the outcome becomes imperative to achieving success. So what are the top three things every leader should focus on when dealing with a crisis? Find out in this video. #VelocityMindset #leadership #CrisisManagement
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Do you know that sometimes you have to go slow to go fast? In this video I share how I could’ve saved myself an hour and 50 minutes with a productivity software. #VelocityMindset #SuccessMindset #TimeManagement #ProductivityTips
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Fear is a really powerful force that can stall your progress and impeded your Velocity. If you allow others to trigger your fears while trying to negotiate, you simply will not get what it is that you are after. So what should you do to close the deal whenever the negotiations don’t go as planned? Find…
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Many of my clients are calling and asking me how to keep their existing business when the world has shut down. My answer is simple: Treat every existing client like they are a prospect. Here’s what this means. #VelocityMindset #ClientRetention #CrisisManagement
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