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The Bold Truth About Success

One of the key contributing factors to my success and happiness is my ability to be BOLD in life. I urge you to do the same and here’s why: Research has shown that overall women need to feel ‘100%’ ready before stepping up for something bigger/different, whereas men will take a leap when feeling just 60% ready….in other words men are prepared to wing it to ... Read More »

What’s So Wrong With Beige Anyway?

Holiday time is right around the corner. Maybe you’ve considered enlivening your home for entertaining. And maybe you’re not sure how to work around all that beige you’ve been living with. The color beige gets a bad rap. It is perceived to be too safe or overused, like a pop song on the radio that plays constantly and gets stuck in your head without your per ... Read More »

5 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Team Culture

When your employees work together to achieve common goals, everyone wins–you, your business and your customers. Employee teams are one of the best ways to get things done in any business. When you take a group of independently talented people and create a team in which they can merge their talents, not only will a remarkable amount of energy and creativity ... Read More »

5 Easy Steps to Create the Right Pricing Strategy

The easy steps you need to know to make pricing a key component of your company’s marketing mix You can have the best product or service in the world, but if you don’t have a solid and contextually based go-to-market (GTM) strategy and execution plan, you will fail.Marketing plays the critical role in building brand awareness, lead generation, prospect and ... Read More »

Tony Robbins on the Most Common Mistake That Keeps Managers From Being Effective

The high-profile life coach of Bill Clinton, Serena Williams, and other high-profile people sounds off on why leaders sometimes need to learn to let go. Over the past three decades, Tony Robbins has become the world’s foremost life coach. He’s sold millions of books, audio tapes, and tickets to his seminars. He’s not only personally coached powerful people ... Read More »

Fall Home Checklist

It is finally that time of year again to prepare you and your home for the imminent cooler weather. Owning a home is not just about gaining equity and pride, it also includes maintenance, repairing, updating, and prepping your home to endure all the seasons of the year. 1. Put Away Your Mower You will not need your mower in the cold months coming up so you ... Read More »

What does a post-TRID world look like?

D-day is upon us. TRID-day that is. Oct. 3 marks the effective date of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Know Before You Owe mortgage disclosure rule, also called the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures rule or TRID. Every residential real estate transaction now requires new loan documentation consisting of two new forms: the Loan Estimate and the C ... Read More »

For Restless Entrepreneurs: Finding Your Purpose Beyond Profit

Purpose-driven businesses make the world a better place, and they can easily make money while they do it. Are there days when you think about your business and ask, “What’s it all for?” There’s nothing wrong with making money, but profits aren’t always a good long-term driver of engagement. A number of psychological experiments have found low correlation b ... Read More »

7 Ways To Upgrade Your Halloween Party

Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday! I love coming up with fun costumes for our family, eating lots of candy and of course hosting a fun party! Try some of these great tips to hosting the perfect Halloween gathering. Candy Corn Shooters Because combining candy and alcohol is never a bad idea! 2015-10-01-1443730730-4866000-candycorncocktailshooters600x ... Read More »

How The Location Of Your Home Affects Your Health

Does the place you call home fall into one of these categories? Here’s the good, the bad and the surprising. JANOKA82/THINKSTOCK You live: Well above sea level What the research says: High-altitude living could lead to a leaner physique. People who lived at sea level were up to 5 times more likely to be obese than those who called areas with an elevation ov ... Read More »

How to Stage Your Home for Fall Showings

Follow these tips to show prospective buyers a home for all seasons. Staging a home is like vacuuming before company arrives: You might not notice it when it’s done well, but you definitely notice when it isn’t. Fall’s biggest buyers are millennials with a sharp eye for detail and empty nesters looking to have some space to themselves, so it makes even mor ... Read More »