I am often amazed when I hear someone say “That’s just the way I am.” A statement like that leaves no room for growth and seems more like a justification -a way to excuse behavior.
Years ago, I had the opportunity to learn about personality styles and was completely intrigued. I still remember a story about a company picnic that, to this day, still helps me to not only understand my own personality. It also help me recognize and understand the personality style others.
There are four basic personality styles. I learned them as D, I, S & C. They are also [ ... ]
I am often amazed when I hear someone say “That’s just the way I am.” A statement like that leaves no room for growth and seems more like a justification -a way to excuse behavior.
Years ago, I had the opportunity to learn about personality styles and was completely intrigued. I still remember a story about a company picnic that, to this day, still helps me to not only understand my own personality. It also help me recognize and understand the personality style others.
There are four basic personality styles. I learned them as D, I, S & C. They are also [ ... ]
Category: Personality Styles, Relationships
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I am often asked about how I manage to know so many people… In short, I do a lot of networking both on and off-line. Effective networking is all about building relationships. It’s about creating long-lasting connections with other people. Relationships don’t just happen, they must be nurtured and developed. Business relationship, especially, have to grow and mature into trust and commitment.
Relationships grow in several phases. The first is visibility. You have to make yourself visible. Visibility creates recognition and awareness. The more visible you are, the more others will know about you and you will learn about them. This [ ... ]
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all. -Carlos Castaneda
To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. -Winston Churchill
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen
When you change the way you think about things, the things you think about will change to match your thoughts about them. -J. Sewell Perkins
The only way to change our lives is by changing our minds. -Ross Cooper
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -Epictetus
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D’Angelo
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. -Charles Kettering
For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? -James Allen
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails -John Maxwell