Personal Power - Achieving Goals

February 2, 2010

Interview with Marianna Olszewski, author of the book Live It, Love It, Earn It: A Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom

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Mike Carruthers:
If you’re still not exactly certain what the perfect job or career is for you, here’s some advice…

Marianna Olszewski:
We all have talents and if we follow those talents the money will come, I promise you, I promise you, I promise you.

January 22, 2010

Interview with Frans Johansson, author of the book Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

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Mike Carruthers:
People who come up with great ideas typically have something in common.

Frans Johansson:
If there's one thing that characterizes breakthrough artists, scientists, entrepreneurs - it is that they generate and try out many ideas.

Frans Johansson, author of the book Medici Effect, says Pablo Picasso for example…

January 13, 2010

Interview with Susan Krauss Whitbourne, author of the book The Search for Fulfillment 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you’re an adult you’ve heard all the cliches that, "Youth is wasted on the young,"  that, "Your best years are behind you..." – well it turns out to be completely untrue.

Susan Krauss Whitbourne:
Development continues throughout adulthood. People don’t just not change after you turn 18.

January 7, 2010

Interview with Timothy Ferriss, author of the book The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.

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Mike Carruthers:
We are so available to other people with cell phones and all the other technology that we don’t have a lot of uninterrupted time to focus on the task at hand.

Timothy Ferriss:
One of the biggest sources of stress (and this is measurable) is self-interruption and interruption. Looking at some of the internal audits at Morgan Stanley people are often interrupted on average every three minutes.

Timothy Ferriss

January 5, 2010

Interview with Anneli Rufus, author of the book Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On

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Mike Carruthers:
Feeling stuck in life has become very popular so many people today seem stuck.

Anneli Rufus:
And when I say stuck I mean people feel stuck in their job, stuck in a relationship, stuck with the wrong social circle, stuck doing nothing, stuck doing too much, right?

January 1, 2010

Interview with Alan Axelrod, author of the book Getting Your Way Every Day: Mastering the Lost Art of Pure Persuasion

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Mike Carruthers:
Tall people are perceived to be more authoritative and persuasive than short people, but also…

Alan Axelrod:
People with deep voices are perceived generally as more authoritative than people with high voices.

December 31, 2009

Interview with Karen Salmansohn, author of the book The 8 Minute Guts Builder: A Portable Coach to Pump Up Your Courage

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Mike Carruthers:
You want to go in and ask for that raise or you want to make that important phone call but you can't quite get up the nerve.

Karen Salmansohn:
So the first thing I suggest is that you do some sit-ups and that is when you really sit up and you take notice of why you want your goal.
 

Karen Salmansohn, author of the book The 8 Minute Guts Builder…

December 23, 2009

Interview with Joe Takash, author of the book Results Through Relationships: Building Trust, Performance, and Profit Through People

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Mike Carruthers:
When you’re a good listener you have a real advantage.

Joe Takash:
The best listeners are the best friends. They’re the people who seem to be surrounded with by positive people. When chips are down for them they seem to get the best support. In business it certainly makes me more money

December 11, 2009

Interview with Dan Shapiro, author of the book Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate

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Mike Carruthers:
Showing appreciation can be almost magical in any relationship or negotiation if you know how to do it right.

Daniel Shapiro:
People often say, "Empathize with the other person, validate their emotions." But what does that mean?

Daniel Shapiro, author of the book Beyond Reason, says real appreciation requires three steps. Number one…

December 10, 2009

Interview with Marcia Ramsland, author of the book Simplify Your Time: Stop Running & Start Living!

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Mike Carruthers:
Want to get more done and feel in control of your life? A good place to start is the clutter.

Marcia Ramsland:
So, for instance, at home you want to think about the visual line of site when you walk into your home. How are the kitchen counters? Two thirds of the front should be clear  - the back one third has stuff.