by Marjorie Saulson | All, Business Skills, Communication
Among the many mottoes I have created over my lifetime, one stands out as being rather snarky: Nothing beats abject terror as a motivator. Actually abject terror as a motivator is pretty limiting. A serious health issue such as a mild heart attack or the discovery of...
by Marjorie Saulson | All, Business Skills, Public Speaking
We are now in the midst of that annual exercise in futility known as making New Year’s Resolutions. You know the drill! You create a hopeful, and often long, list of things you would like to do better in the coming year. Losing weight and exercising more seem to...
by Marjorie Saulson | All, Business Skills, Communication, Public Speaking
It is always exciting to be inspired by a great new idea. It doesn’t matter if the idea is for a new product, a new service, a better way of doing something, or a better way of creating value in your life and in the world. The challenge comes in moving beyond...
by Marjorie Saulson | All, Business Skills
As I had shared in a prior post, setting goals can be tricky because it is very easy to get stuck in the extremes – either setting goals that are so easy to achieve that they don’t move us very far forward along our path, or ones that are so difficult that...
by Marjorie Saulson | All, Business Skills
Goals are both admirable and tricky. They are admirable because they enable us to set our sights upon something worthwhile that can bring value both to ourselves and to others. All great accomplishments come as the result of striving toward targets that are initially...