When you try something new, write it down. Make lists of things you would like to try and tick them off as you go https://virg.in/5dF

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Scams are so common over the festive period – keep vigilant and use these tips to avoid getting caught out: https://virg.in/zkE

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You'll never be successful if you don't know how to manage your time. Here are 3 tricks that help me make the most of every minute in my day.

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My daily routine and how it helps set me up to have a productive day https://virg.in/ino Virgin Pulse

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“How do I know when it’s the ‘right’ time to invest?” The answer is NOW. Regardless of what the market is doing, take a small portion of your income - 5, maybe 10%, and invest it in diverse, dividend paying stocks. Consider that your nest egg. Regardless of what the market is doing right NOW, be patient, and your money will grow without you worrying about a thing. That’s passive investing! 🧠 💰 #sharktank #financialfreedom #investment #personalfinance …see more

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Key Ingredients of Great Teams who generate results & say 'We did it!' 1. Clear Expectation of roles & responsibilities 2. Collaboration, Dependability, & Trust among the team 3. Each person has a sense of purpose & know how they help achieve the larger goal #TeamWork Credit: ASMDSS Group …see more

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We could never have evolved from a mail-order record retailer to a global brand if I hadn’t learnt how to delegate early on. Here are my five tips on delegating: https://virg.in/5nz

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A big part of being active and productive is getting into healthy habits – here are a few of mine: https://virg.in/ino Virgin Pulse

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The Art of Following Up: An Essential Strategy for Growing Your Career or Business 👋🏽 Following up - it’s one of the most important skills you can master to advance your career or grow your business. In fact, your next big opportunity may depend on whether or not you follow up - and how well you do it. In this video, I share some relevant tips on the art of following up, including how to provide value and why it’s important to use a high-touch, personalized approach in today’s high-tech world. Plus, a cool tool which makes it easier: http://www.bond.co …see more

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People always ask me if I have and tips and tricks to being so productive. My morning routine is one of them.

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If your New Year’s resolution is to chase your entrepreneurial dreams, here are some tips for evaluating your idea: https://virg.in/iaq

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Are you avoiding a difficult conversation? You don’t need to. There’s a simple and powerful tool to transform the conversations you want to avoid to ones that can foster greater connection, growth and trust. Learn how from entrepreneur, author and my friend, Kristen Hadeed. You can also check out her Live Class on How to Deliver and Accept Feedback Effectively at https://bit.ly/2TbCUJp . The next class is on May 14 at 10am ET. https://bit.ly/3cpu6aj #LearnShareGrow #Feedback …see more

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Fun #winefact : most people are drinking their red wine too warm, and their white wine too cold! My secret to perfect wine is to stick it outside for 10 or 15 mins. Your wine will be around 63 degrees - perfect temperature for sipping!! (Although might not work in South Beach!!) 🍷 #winewednesday https://lnkd.in/eNp2mGe …see more

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One of the quickest ways to go broke is eating out for every meal! DON’T DO IT! I practice “make-ahead Monday” every week when I’m not travelling. I prepare three delicious dishes out of the same ingredient (this week it’s beef!) and I’m able to have 5 star meals all week, on a budget. Let me help you meal prep! I know you’re going to die for my Swiss sliders. …see more

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How to test your ideas and tackle challenges by turning them into opportunities: https://virg.in/iQf

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A perfect business pitch is an art, but it's certainly not complicated!! Stop overthinking it and follow these 3 rules!

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So you've found your WHY...now what? This live online class will show you how to align your WHY with your current life, future opportunities and how it all ties together. You'll leave with a roadmap for living your authentic life: https://bit.ly/3nW78wx …see more

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How do you work out where to focus your entrepreneurial energy? This is my technique: https://virg.in/iQf

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Learning never stops. Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early. Every day I seek out mentors: people who have great experience to help me, particularly in areas I am new to, excited about, and know nothing about. Here are the only ways I’ve ever been able to find a mentor. I hope they work for you as well: http://bit.ly/2sZSdWE …see more

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5 mistakes while #Fundraising : 1. Playing the bluff: "I already have a term sheet. I need an answer immediately". Too often the deadline is artificial & unrealistic, compromising the founder's credibility. It leaves no room for an authentic engagement for a meaningful outcome. 2. Overvaluation: "I am interested only if the valuation is $100M". If you draw a hard line that is a big gap from the investor's assessment of the valuation, most often they will disengage. Also, negotiating down significantly hurts your credibility. 3. Pitch: CEOs should own & lead the conversation with the investors. Sometimes, the banker takes over while presenting, hurting the CEO's credibility. Investors like CEOs to have ownership of the numbers that they are committing. 4. Communication: Another mistake is not communicating the business proposition early in the presentation. Pace the presentation for 35 mins & communicate the uniqueness of the product that makes you win the market up front. 5. Feedback: Often, founders don't listen to feedback & get defensive to questions asked. In fact, questions are asked with an intent to understand the business better. …see more

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Questions you should ask yourself before taking the plunge into #entrepreneurship : 1. 'How passionate am I to solve this problem? Why do I want to solve it? What are my unique insights?' 2. 'What am I willing to risk? How long can I sustain without pay, revenue, funding?' 3. 'Am I expecting my family to support - financial constraints, lack of my time and availability?' You are doing what you want. 'Are they aligned; if they are not, are you prepared for the consequences?' This clarity will make the foundation of your entrepreneurial journey strong. …see more

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33 UNUSUAL tips for being a better #writer: http://bit.ly/2mK7gEE #SelfPublish #Writing #Ideas #Business #Publishing #Entrepreneur

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What's been making me extra productive lately? 😈 I share my recent best tip for hitting your goals. 🤓

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Building a #startup is tough. Picking a right co-founder isn't easy either. 7 tips that might work: 1. Find a co-founder within your inner network. The best co-founder relationship is based on deep trust, and that's based on the history of the relationship 2. Before choosing a #business partner, have frank, direct, and difficult conversations with them. Discuss who will own how much, each other's roles and responsibilities, and who gets to have the final say on what, among others 3. You and your potential business partner should have a common vision, work ethics, and goals setting 4. Discuss each other's strengths and shortcomings 5. Pick someone from a different background and with different strengths to complement you 6. Disagreements and differences are inevitable, but you must respect and support each other. Your startup's #success will immensely depend on your ability to make necessary compromises that are in the better interests of the business 7. Have a mentor or a go-to advisor or board member that you both trust #Startups …see more

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If you only had 20 minutes to revamp your Linkedin profile for 2019, what would you change? Since so many people (especially students!) asked me what they should focus on when updating their profile, I created this guide to some key things that have helped me in stepping up my Linkedin profile for the new year. Inspired by Rachel Chang 's document on setting 2019 goals! Tiffany Parra , Joel Hansen , Alyssa Mangaoang , Andrew Griffiths - What would you all add? #linkedinprofile #linkedintips #guides …see more

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Will your small business survive the pandemic? Your odds will be a lot better if you follow this advice:

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What is the most important practical skill if you want to become a successful entrepreneur? The first one that comes to mind is note-taking

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HOW TO DEAL WITH CRAPPY PEOPLE ----- DON'T KEEP A SCOREBOARD One friend of mine asked me, "Do you ever keep a scoreboard in your friendships?" What do you mean? "Like, I did this so he/she should now do this. Or...I did X, Y and Z so they shouldn't do A, B, or C!" Yeah, I do that all the time. "Once you find yourself keeping a scoreboard, that's a sign that the friendship or business relationship or any relationship is already over." ---- AND NEVER ASK "WHY?" Most important thing I learned last year about people: never ask "why?" Some people are toxic. Some are "narcissistic" (an over-used word, but still). Some people will wrong you. Some friends will stop talking to you for no reason. I have never ever once found out why. In a hundred different situations over the past many decades. They just do what they do. ---- The crappy people in my life are never the neighbors down the street who I don't know. They are always people who were once close to me. They are always people who I would once trust with anything, with my life, with my loyalty and faith. And then...poof. I'll never know. And I am going to try really hard this year to never ask Again. …see more

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Distractions are always going to be there. How to stick to a plan and ignore distractions: 1. Be in touch with your goals. Often review why this goal is important to you. 2. Learn how to say no. Count how many times you said yes to something you wish you hadn't. 3. Meditate to develop the ability to focus. Train your mind to succeed. 4. Understand the cause of chaos in your #life and be brutal about reducing it. 5. Don't multitask as a habit. Do one thing at a time. 6. Limit #technology interruptions, so you stay focused. 7. Plan things and activities to do when stressed and unfocused. #PersonalDevelopment #Productivity …see more

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There is only one trick to getting up early: GOING TO SLEEP EARLY! We all feel like we can’t go to sleep early. We might miss something. Often night is the time we can read. Or socialize. Or eat. Or drink. Or watch TV. Well, stop all of those things. ➞ Don’t eat a meal after 5 or 6pm ➞ Don’t watch TV (what’s good on TV anyway?) ➞ Don’t socialize too much (do your friends need to see you every night?). ➞ Don’t drink – its both a depressant and filled with sugar and calories, which will keep you up at night. ➞ Networking at night is ok, but you can’t do it every day. Maybe once a week. The benefits of waking up early are enormous. You are able to focus better. Your day will be filled with success by the time everone is just waking up. You can read more. You can exercise. You can think. You can work and nobody is up to bother you. You can meditate or pray. There’s no temptation to drink or eat a heavy meal. You can see the emptiness of where you live when the sun just peeks out and lights it up. You can feel the freshness of the air. You can take a pad and after you are done reading, you can write down ideas. Here's more... http://ow.ly/6mo930iBzFQ …see more

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WRITE TEN IDEAS EVERY DAY AND WITHIN THREE MONTHS YOU WILL HAVE REWIRED YOUR BRAIN My first idea list was the table of contents for a book I wanted to write. The book was going to be called, “How to Beat Your Friends and Family at Every Game in the Universe.” For every game, I’d write three tips that, if you just knew those tips, then you’d beat anyone who was just a casual player. . . #ideas #creative #lifestyle #writing #entreprenurship …see more

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This is a bulleted FAQ on starting a business. No joke. If you’re a lawyer, feel free to disagree with me, so you can charge someone your BS fees to give the same advice. If you can think of anything to add, please do so in the comments below. I might be missing things. If you want to argue with me, that’s cool, too. I might be wrong on any of the items below... http://bit.ly/2wVyooy …see more

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THE ULTIMATE CHEAT SHEET FOR SELLING ANYTHING: All of this is from my own experience. Which means it might not work for you. Which means it might go counter to the basic rules of salesmanship. I have no idea. But I can say that over the past 25 years, I’ve sold hundreds of millions of dollars of stuff. That stuff being everything in Pandora’s box that I had to sell just to stay alive. When I thought of what worked for me... [here’s what I came up with: http://bit.ly/2issyVo ] …see more

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Is investing on your list of New Year’s resolutions? It should be! Here are 4 reasons you should start investing NOW.

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Why you should create "something" daily 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Imagine you have two designers of the same skill level [total beginners] sitting at a table. - You tell the 1st designer, "create a design to the best of your ability. You have 30 days." - You tell the 2nd designer, "create a design every day for the next 30 days." More than likely the 2nd designer is going to come out on top every single time. They're failing more. Running into more challenges. Etc. It doesn't have to be a masterpiece. It doesn't even have to be published. But create every day and you'll come out a better content creator. #justQ 🖖🏽🖤 #entrepreneurship #business …see more

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Everytime we write, prepare and create a presentation we spend far far too long thinking about what we want to say, and far far too little time thinking about what the audience wants and how best to deliver that. It's always about them not you.

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10 MINUTES IS ALL IT TAKES Keep comfortable shoes in your desk drawer or in your car or work bag so you can go for a quick walk up and down the halls of your office building or outside your office building. Physical movement is one of the most effective ways to mentally reset and discharge negative energy. And you do not have to walk long to benefit – ten minutes is all it takes. …see more

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If you’re getting into public speaking👇🏽🎤 1). Don’t shy away from the smaller events. They often lead to large scale events. My first one was in front of about 50 people. That’s lead to VidCon, TEDx, and the upcoming INBOUND. 2). It will vary based off your goals, but don’t just speak to the same people. Barely anyone in this audience knew me. Which was an awesome opportunity to get my name out there. 3). Don’t ever let anyone convince you that you need to be a certain way. We can all definitely improve (I know I can), but find & develop your own style. 4). Remember that you’re speaking to people. It’s not about the numbers. 5). You’re not going to be perfect. You’ll mess up (a lot). Learn from those mistakes. 6). Don’t take all the advice you hear from people like me. Test everything and find what works for you. What lessons would you add? #justQ 🖖🏽🖤 #entrepreneurship #business …see more

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This is the one of the top questions I get asked all the time: How do I get started with a career in marketing? 🧐⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ And, it doesn’t just come from college students or young graduates. Many times it comes from seasoned professionals or folks who want to enter a completely new industry. 🤩⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I hope you enjoy my answer. I tried to make it as comprehensive as possible. Check out link in comments. And, please do me a favor because I know you know folks who have had this exact question. Tag them in the comments so they can benefit too. 🙏🏽⁣⁣ #marketing #digitalmarketing #careerpath …see more

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Do you listen more than you talk? Leaders cite LISTENING as an essential soft skill because it demonstrates respect, builds trust, and makes people feel valued. It also allows leaders to discover new ideas and to detect potential problems when they're still small. In the latest episode of my #LinkedInVideo series* on soft skills, I share three ways to cultivate your listening skills. #listening #leadership #business #success #professionaldevelopment #relationships #communication #growth #softskills #career #HumansFirst *Links to the other videos in the comments ----- I’m a ghostwriter and speaker who helps leaders communicate and connect better. Contact me if you or organization could use my help. …see more

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