I’m staring a new series here: Harty Nuggets! Every week, I’ll publish new insights and observations that caught my eye. Moved my heart. Stimulated my brain. And made my blood boil!What am I observing exactly? That’s the fun of it! We’re talking TOTAL free-flow mode here. Rest assured, these...

Planning for 2012? Listing your resolutions? Find yourself repeating the same unproductive habits and behaviors from year to year? Answered yes to any of those questions? Then keep reading! Because this will forever change how you see, plan and live the coming year and the ones that follow…Bold words?...

Editor’s note: this is the first in a series of best practices on building  highly effective swipe files. A swipe file typically contains someone else’s intellectual property you purchased. As such a swipe should be for your own use or for that of your marketing team. Can you guess why I chose...

Welcome to a new year and a new decade! Now, get to work… :-)Well,  how about a way to make this year the best ever? Before you answer, know that what I suggest is more fun than resolutions. And more big picture than goal setting.You see, rather than focus on the micro (resolutions) lets FIRST focus...

It’s so easy to get caught up with the micro that we forget the macro. In this case, did our work payoff? What results did we get? Can we track those results and connect the dots to the bottom line? One way to answer those questions is to step back , gain perspective and then take a look and ask...

As I write this on New Year’s Eve, I’ve seen any number of articles and blog posts on resolutions, both positive and negative. So I make the following promise: keep reading and you’ll learn a new way to plan and focus the coming year—and it’s not work, it’s really fun! You see, rather...