passion

I remember watching the greatest player to ever play the game of basketball, six time NBA Champion Michael Jordan.

There's a famous song lyric that asks: "Is that all there is?" Every seven seconds, an American turns 50 years old. So there's a good chance that song is running through some of their heads.

I told a friend the other day that I had started a business on the internet.

Meriwether Lewis set the stage for the Corps of Discovery's success before one single "employee" had been hired. From the outset Lewis and Clark engendered a communications culture that brought in the right prospects, then kept morale high and increased the productivity of those eventually hired.

If you are like many professionals, you know your subject, you are an expert in your field such as speaking or coaching. You are even passionate about it! What you may not know is how to tell people about your services and products to get them to buy. Your home page needs passion. You have only 10 seconds or so to impress your visitor. Make sure you don't have long paragraphs of bio or description of your mission, service, or book. Visitors, who really are potential clients or customers, want to know what's in it for them. Make every word count.

If you are like many professionals, you know your subject, you are an expert in your field such as speaking or coaching. You are even passionate about it! What you may not know is how to tell people about your services and products to get them to buy.

Most successful entrepreneurs have a strong passion for their ideas or concepts. They know what they want and they know what they enjoy doing. Their work becomes their play. The secret to success in business is to find your passion. Know specifically what it is you want in life.

"Well, you learn something new everyday." said Mrs. Parker, the neighborhood matriarch. She was looking vacantly out her domain, otherwise known as our neighborhood. She sounded lackadaisical: surely not intrigued by the process.