10 Tips to Reduce Stress and Avoid Burnout

Your plate is full and you feel the pressure. Work responsibilities. Credit card bills. Marriage and family responsibilities. All the pressure and stress can be overwhelming and lead to burnout.

Here are 10 common-sense tips to help you reduce stress and avoid burnout. And what makes these tips extra special is most do not require extra time on your part. Instead, they will help you re-engineer the time you already have.

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Time Management Tips for Your Lifestyle Business – The Best Way to Tackle Your Stack of Stuff

Time Management Tips for Your Lifestyle Business

As a thought leader or lifestyle entrepreneur, when your to-do list is jammed packed and your stack of stuff is piled to the ceiling, the first items that usually get cut are from your personal life. Yet this approach is the exact opposite of what you should do…both for your business and personal life. One definition of…

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How To Find Your Passion – 7 Great Questions to Ask Yourself

How to Find Your Purpose - 7 Great Questions to Ask Yourself

After coaching and training thousands of speaking and thought-leader clients, one of the questions I hear most often is: How do I find my passion? Knowing how to find your passion isn't easy. If it were, this question wouldn't be asked by so many people. However, you CAN find your passion, and the best place to…

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The Power of Hope

The Power of Hope

I frequently speak and write about the “keys to success” and often throw the word “real” or “true” in front of the word “success.” Additionally, when speaking about success, my focus is usually on the “most important roles of life.” Curious as to why the emphasis is on words like “real” and “true” and phrases…

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Does Positivity Really Matter?

Does Positivity Really Matter?

There's been a lot written about positive psychology in books such as Authentic Happiness and The Happiness Advantage. At the core of each of these books, as well as others like them, is the fundamental question: Does positivity really matter? At many of my events, I offer products and merchandise including books and wristbands to help people retain the message…

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How to Become a Better Leader in Direct Sales (5 Shortcuts)

How to Become a Better Leader in Direct Sales (5 Shortcuts)

Leadership is a big topic in direct sales. This means everyone has an opinion about it. But if you're new to leading a downline team, you probably want to know how to become a better leader as quickly as possible. The following shortcuts will save you a lot of agony and help you avoid common leadership…

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5 Time Management Tips (HINT: These Really Work)

5 Time Management Tips that Actually Work

You've read dozens of time management books. You've implemented at least a half dozen time management systems. You've tried every time management hack under the sun. YET… you still feel like TIME MANAGES YOU instead of the other way around. What's a person to do? Try these 5 time management tips. They actually work! 5…

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How to Unplug and Recharge

Knowing how to unplug and recharge is a critical success factor that leads to better performance, greater productivity, and ultimately… a better life. The reason knowing how to unplug is so important is because it gives you the time and space to recharge mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Once recharged, you can jump back into…

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5 Words of Wisdom That Guarantee Success in Life and Work

5 Words of Wisdom That Guarantee Success in Life and Work

Success is often defined by power, prestige, and profit. Yet many who achieve these status symbols eventually ask: “Is this all there is?” How disappointing it must be to invest so much time and energy in achieving challenging results only to realize your ladder of success has been leaning up against a counterfeit wall. In…

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Thoughts on Success – Use Up Your Life!

Thoughts on Success - Use Up Your Life

Go Ahead and Use Up Your Life! Here is one of those thoughts on success that's a classic: Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming—”Wow…What a Ride!”…

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Do You Have Stick-to-it-tiveness?

Do You Have Stick-to-it-iveness?

I lead a community called the Paid to Speak Accelerator. This mastermind community is designed to equip people to move from DREAM to DO as speakers…whether they want to speak full-time, part-time, or even use speaking to grow their business or membership site. During one of our recent weekly meetings, I shared that one of…

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