It’s Not What it Seems – Finding Your Confidence

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It’s never what it seems…

We’ve all heard the stories so many times we’ve kind of come to expect them: the stories of celebrities who seem to have everything until the mask slips. Then they seem to have nothing.

Alcoholism, addictions, emptiness, abuse, loneliness, issues with debt, self-esteem, shattered families.

Yet even though we know all that, we still too often find ourselves in a new environment, surrounded by seemingly successful people, feeling a serious case of ‘imposter syndrome’ coming on. Why do we do that? Why do we understand the pains and struggles of our own journeys, and the repeated . . . → Read More: It’s Not What it Seems – Finding Your Confidence

What Networking Like a Pro Really Means

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Too many people in business have fuzzy ideas about what constitutes effective networking. They believe that by standing around in undifferentiated ‘business’ crowds, wearing a name-tag, and banging home that elevator pitch over and over again, somehow connections and referrals will somehow sprout around them like mushrooms. Fuggetaboutit.

Networking is fundamentally about developing trust in people who you can make a difference for.

The two things you need to do to build trust are:

1. Deliver. Make a commitment to someone: to help them, to make some positive difference; and then deliver. Come through on your commitment.

2. Drink . . . → Read More: What Networking Like a Pro Really Means

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