First the X broker has a post about how to run a mortgage company, then I see a Blown Mortgage post about how mortgage shoppers lie.
I’ll say this: those people that say ethics and integrity don’t enhance your business are wrong.
Those people that say they are at a competitive disadvantage when facing down [...]
We have another telemarketing victim!
Here’s today’s appropriate response to our autodialer (it rolls to voice mail when all lines are full).
Here’s the original:
hillbilly.mp3
Our company’s marketing campaign isn’t mine–you just get the benefits.
I get some criticisms about my “personality” a lot.
I’m abrasive.
I talk too fast.
I bulldoze over people.
I’m arrogant.
I don’t listen to other people’s point of view.
To that I say (in order)
You have stupid ideas.
You think too slowly.
You are a milquetoast.
Effectiveness isn’t arrogance.
Why would I listen to people that are repeatedly inept?
Nobody can stand anything resembling a [...]
The refusal to be creative is self will, and contrary to true nature.
-Julia Cameron
I’m through the preamble, and I’m reading now The Artist’s Way. It was recommended to me by several people; Jenna Fischer, Scott Ginsberg and others.
I am blown away. In as much as “Getting Things Done,” helped me to restore some [...]
(note: I have a ton of stuff to get out there tonight–maybe a ton of it will become a post, maybe not).
Your mind automatically finishes the following sentence: Jack of All Trades….
And we all know that type. The “Experts” on everything, dispensing knowledge without thought, and giving direction of dubious value (but regular [...]
Track Your Goals Online
[edit: 3/2/08: this is included in "best of" because it is the first time I wanted the radical accountability. Took many restarts.]
So–if not my muse, a clear purpose has presesnted itself to me today–and the technology allows me an elegant way of doing what I want to do. [...]
The main reason for this Journal is accountability. I wanted to increase the number of eyes that were holding me to the goals I set for myself. I wanted to put myself out there and say: this is who I am and how I roll. By advocating a position, [...]
When Ideas come, what do
BEING FLAKY is 100% preventable.
And, it only takes a tiny amount of effort in a few key places to be extraordinary.
So, in order to be prepared to get things done, I decided to have two groups of things with me most or all of the time…
One group, I’d have [...]
Joe Paterno is credited with saying that about a linebacker he took a pass on….according to legend, JoePA didn’t see him as a worker. And, apparently, JoePa was right because the dude had physical skills but became a Juco washout. (Note: I originally heard that story at one of the Mike Ferry [...]
Sarcasm is a staple of our generation.
“That’s just perfect” or…”This is fan-tastic.”
Someone saw this blog, and I was greeted with a cutting remark: “boy, I wish I had that kind of time.”
Well, maybe. We don’t have a TV in our house, you’d be surprised by what kind of hours are freed up by [...]
