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There’s a great discussion brewing over at Dave Schoof’s site, The Disquiet, about the places we go inside when life isn’t showing up the way we think it should. Namely, we blame ourselves.

I wrote an article about this a couple years ago, while living in Florida, and now that this discussion is going, it seemed perfectly timely to post it again (it’s a timeless topic, after all), with a few edits for clarity’s sake. It speaks to the feelings we have, and judge ourselves for…

The last few days in my office I had been feeling as if something was missing in my work. I took that feeling to mean that I was barking up the wrong tree, and that I should change my focus, my approach, or what I was teaching and to whom.

I assumed, given my feelings of discontent, that I was wrong about my course. “I must be making the wrong choice,” I surmised, “and I need to throw it away and find something new in order to be happy.”

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Do you keep running into the same dead-ends in your work? Do you feel unable to see beyond your old paradigms, or bust out of the ruts you’ve been working in?

What’s the use in trying another tactic, if you’re only drawing from the same pool of information?

You don’t need a retooling of your strategy; you need a new perspective.

A new round of the Black Belt Business Intuition (Level One) workshop is slated to begin Thursday, June 28. Come take a look; it could be just what you’re needing.

Around my house, one of those little jingles that always gets resurrected (at seemingly random moments) is from, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”, the Tina Turner biography, starring Angela Bassett. Little Tina is singing with the church choir, and to the obvious frustration of the director, she’s inserting all kinds of spunk in between the lines of “This Little Light of Mine…”

“Jesus… (’you know mah Lord’) Jesus… (’he come and tell me’) I’m gonna let it shine…” (’oh whoa whoa whoa!’)

I love thinking about little Tina, giving it all she’s got, singing for the music inside of her.

For me, that’s inspiring. When people put themselves out there, without censoring themselves because of “what will they think?” voices, or because they might appear different, I find joy in that.

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Just a friendly reminder, since I know how busy life can get…

If you’re interested in:

• solidifying your personal brand
• attracting patrons who love what you do
• creating lasting, loyal relationships
• and much more…

You probably want to click the picture on the right… because the early registration discount for the “Create a Business People Love” group ends today.

In the last post, we talked about the differences in your orientation and perspective that happen when you think of your “people” as customers, clients, or patrons.

I had two abundantly clear experiences around the importance of “patron orientation” recently when I went to Chicago for SOBCon07.

To United Airlines, I was seat 32D. A hundred bucks. In and out, I’m sure… just one more sardine in the bunch.
To Tandoor Restaurant, I was an instant friend. “We’ll take care of you. Everything is fresh. Help yourselves. How are you doing? Need anything else? Thank you so much.” (that’s me with the owner in the picture; I’m the one in the dark blue shirt, in case you weren’t sure)

Sure, you could say that it’s a size and volume issue…

But, that would be missing the point.

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Sometimes an idea comes along that revolutionizes your way of thinking about a subject.

A conversation got started at Dawud Miracle’s site not too long ago, about “What Would You Rather Have, Clients or Customers?”

The ensuing conversation completely reframed the way I view people who come in and out of my business. Isn’t it just semantics? Hardly.

The way we orient to an idea will shape how we view it, the identity we give it, and the actions we take in relationship to it.

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I got tagged for a very Monkish meme today, by Chris Garrett (which is only fair, since I tagged him for Ben’s Productivity meme…).

Why “monkish”? Because it’s a charity meme, and that puts a wonderfully altruistic spin on it. Rather than, “link to me! Link to me!”, this is about, “link to them! Link to them!”

The hope is that through linking to charity sites, it will help improve their visibility, search engine rankings, and exposure to people who may not have heard of them before.

Here’s the list, as it now stands, according to the latest update at SEORefugee, where it started:
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