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Welcome to Dear Songwriter, the podcast to help you confidently and consistently write and release your songs. In this episode, we're diving into something all too familiar for many songwriters: being stretched too thin. With the pressures of social media, content creation, and maintaining connections, it's easy to lose focus on the main thing—writing your music.Episode Highlights:Shiny Object Syndrome: We often feel pressured to follow every new trend, post daily on social media, or try new things in hopes of getting discovered. This can lead to burnout.My Solution: I introduce the MCC Prioritization Method, focusing on three areas: Music, Content, and Conversations. By honing in on these categories, you can focus your efforts and reduce overwhelm.The MCC Prioritization Method:Music:My Struggle: I felt the need to constantly reinvent my sound, purchasing countless tools and feeling overwhelmed.Solution: Stick to what works and improve. Build on the sound you're happy with, and focus on finishing your songs rather than chasing new ideas.Next Steps:Inventory your current skills and tools.Create outcomes based on those tools.Identify the next steps and new skills you'll need to grow.Content:My Struggle: I was posting across too many platforms and experimenting too much, which led to burnout.Solution: Focus on content creation that feels natural to you, and choose one platform to start with.Next Steps:Pick a content type (writing, video, or audio).Choose 1-2 platforms to focus on.Determine a sustainable posting schedule.Conversations:My Struggle: I was engaging with too many people, from clients to collaborators, and it drained my energy.Solution: Get clear on who you want to engage with and prioritize meaningful connections.Next Steps:Identify three groups of people you want to regularly engage with.Set monthly conversation goals (e.g., reaching out to local artists).Track your conversations to stay organized.Call to Action:If you feel overwhelmed with your music journey, I'm here to help! Book a free Just Start Call to get clarity on your goals and create a personalized plan. Visit connorfrost.com/startcall to schedule a time.Closing Thoughts:When in doubt, refer to one of the MCC buckets—Music, Content, or Conversations. By focusing on these areas, you'll always have something to work on, and you'll never feel stuck. Take a step today and start building toward your songwriting goals.Sincerely, ConnorHappy writing!Episode Resources:Free Just Start Calls: connorfrost.com/startcallJoin the Newsletter: connorfrost.com/vaultBe sure to follow the podcast for more songwriting tips and actionable advice!

Recorded in the Octagong from the Live In Flow 'ReConnected' 5 day retreat, Northern NSW, Australia. https://www.liveinflow.co/ Guy Lawrence and Matt Omo discuss the pitfalls and solutions of embarking on a spiritual journey. They explore the importance of demystifying spirituality and living authentically. The pitfalls include chasing experiences, spiritual bypassing, attachment to tools, and being a consumer of knowledge without taking action. The solutions involve regular practice, community and connection, finding a good mentor, and having fun. The conversation emphasizes the need for self-nurturing, growth, and embracing the present moment. 00:00 Introduction 02:55 Demystifying Spirituality 06:14 Pitfall: Chasing the Experience 09:04 Pitfall: Spiritual Bypass 11:52P itfall: Attached to the Tools 16:10 Pitfall: Consumer of Knowledge, but not Action 19:55 Solution: Community and Connection 20:54 Solution: Get a Good Mentor 28:11 Solution: Have Fun 30:00 Conclusion

Welcome back to America's #1 Daily Podcast, featuring America's #1 Real Estate Coaches and Top EXP Realty Sponsors in the World, Tim and Julie Harris. Ready to become an EXP Realty Agent and join Tim and Julie Harris? https://whylibertas.com/harris or text Tim directly 512-758-0206 IMPORTANT: Join #1 Real Estate Coaches Tim and Julie Harris's Premier Coaching now for FREE. Included is a DAILY Coaching Session with a HARRIS Certified Coach. Proven and tested lead generation, systems, and scripts designed for this market. Instant FREE Access Now: YES, Enroll Me NOW In Premier Coaching https://members.timandjulieharris.com/ Real Estate Agents: How do you know if your business is headed for a big slowdown? Will your income fall off a cliff in 60 to 90 days or will you keep your momentum?  Before there were reliable Seismometers, earthquakes were even more destructive than they are today. Entire cities were built on fault lines and there would be no warning before destruction would ensue. Before tornado sirens, tornadoes would hit and no one would have time to hide in cellars and basements. There was no warning to take action. Before planes and pilots had the ability to detect and report turbulence to the planes around them, turbulence would seemingly come out of nowhere and surprise the passengers, wreck their lunch trays and freak everyone out. Now they have on-board weather radar and better reporting so they can warn everyone and steer around the disturbances. Fortunately, we now have seismometers, tornado sirens and turbulence indicators, but what about YOUR Early Warning Signs? How do you know when you're getting off track BEFORE you're actually experiencing turbulence, earthquakes, or a tornado to your own income stream? 5 Early Warning Signs You're Headed For A Crash 1.   Warning Sign: You've started to blame everyone and everything for your lack of momentum. The market conditions, your broker, lack of inventory, higher interest rates, or what party is in office.   Solution: Put down your 'blame-thrower' and embrace these affirmations:  "If it's meant to be, it's up to me!" and: "I'm a do-er, I do things now, I get things done!" 2.   Warning Sign: You're not exercising. If you're experiencing a lack of energy or feeling depressed or unmotivated, put one foot in front of the other. There's an African Proverb that goes like this: "When you pray, move your feet!"   Solution: Get back to exercising, but make it even better for your business. Join OrangeTheory, Zumba, CrossFit, or form a walking club in your neighborhood. Being around other people gives you an opportunity to talk about real estate while you're getting back on your exercise routine! 3.   Warning Sign: You're not following a profit-driven schedule. Hoping, waiting, or speculating for your next few transactions is not a plan. Your daily, profit-driven schedule must include proactive lead generation, furiously fast lead follow-up, pre-qualifying, presenting, negotiating, and closing. If you're not doing any of the last things on the list, it means you have to do the first and most important! Proactively generate new leads. Solution: Set a specific, short-term goal of generating new, pre-qualified appointments. If you need 3 new listings in the next 30 days, your short-term goal is to set at least one new listing appointment this week. What are you doing TODAY to achieve that goal? 4.   Warning Sign: The overconsumption of negative news, association with negative people or incessantly doom-scrolling. How do you feel when you spend your time this way? Solution: Follow a Media Free Morning, or Media Free Day. Unless what you're watching or listening to is in support of your powerful mindset, providing you valuable market or business knowledge, step away from that media! 5.   Warning Sign: You're not making enough contact with people ready to transact. Are you conflict-avoiding, contact-avoiding, and hiding out from potential business?

In this episode, Nole is joined by Louie and Jeff to hear about the Department Day Of Prayer that they have organized. Together they get into what this day is designed to be, along with what it is not intended to be and why it is something they think is essential. We here at the podcast are in full support of this effort and we want to see you down there! Listen for details. A Warriors Perspective Instagram.https://www.instagram.com/awarriorsperspective/The views and opinions expressed on A Warriors Perspective Podcast are strictly those of the hosts. They do not reflect the views or opinions of any organization, group, or entity that we may work for or be members of.

As power generation crumbles around our ears, experts are calling to have politicians ousted from Eskom's decision-making processes. South Africa in the throes of the worst power crisis in history and the government has again promised it has a plan to end load-shedding. But given previous empty promises, what is the country to make of government pronouncements? This is the question Sunday Times Politics Weekly host Mike Siluma poses to Pan African Investment and Research Services CE Dr Iraj Abedian and former statistician-general Dr Pali Lehohla.  Abedian and Lehohla's reply is uniform and overwhelming: our politicians are not engineers, nor are they procurement or strategic planning experts — and they need to be removed from Eskom's decision-making processes. 

In episode #223 of the Negotiations Ninja podcast, we dove into Deb Calvert's “DISCOVER” framework. She expounded upon the SPIN methodology and developed her framework to cover the right questions to ask throughout the sales process:  Data: Get some facts Issue: Determine the issue between the two parties Solution: Get people to think outside the box Consequence: Ask pain-point and goal-oriented questions Outcome: Pain-point and goal-oriented questions Value: Determine what is important to the other person Example: Share examples to get them thinking and processing Rationale: Ask questions to understand the buyer's decision-making process. Learn more about Deb's framework and how it can help you in sales and negotiations in this throwback episode of Negotiations Ninja!

Welcome back to the Positively You Podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in and making time for me today. So, are you done with your Christmas shopping? Haha, are you sick of that question yet? I'm betting that in the past month or so that you have been asked that or a similar question.Back in November is was “Have you started yet?”Now it's: “Are you done?” or Who else do you have to shop for? Or What are you getting your kids for Christmas. Sure, these might just be easy questions for some small talk, but man….its a lot of focus on buy, buy, buy, sales, discounts, shipping concerns, and stressing so much about presents. This year I've decided to really lean in and go the route of swapping out more presents for creating more presence. In the past I've paired down, but this year….I'm going in strong. Partly because I'm super over the commercialism of the holidays and also because I've really started to notice that my time, my actual physical presence is really what my kids want the most, (shocker) and not the latest gadget from some gift guide that a random influencer got paid to promote. (sorrynotsorry) The point really got driven home to me recently. Last year for Christmas, I gave my kids a parent child journal that my friend Camille designed called Time for Us, and no joke….it has been the most used present. Annabelle writes in it almost every night and I love being able to go through it with her and Liam just asked for a new one for next year. I'm telling you, time and connection is the asbsolute BEST gift you can give. And I think most of us know that, but we get caught up in a couple of hurdles or mind blocks. Here's some of mine that I've had to overcome and shift my thinking around. Hurdle ONE: I used to think if we went the route of “experiences”: instead of gifts, that it meant we needed to do a trip, and I mean a BIG trip, AND that it needed to be on Christmas day to make up for “normal christmas” I kept putting off doing that because we couldn't afford the 10,000 dollar Disney Cruise. And I was definitely stuck in a go big, all or nothing mindset. So I continued to fill stockings with stuff and buy more presents to spill out from under the tree. Solution: Sure, it can be a trip. I mean thats definitely a goal I have on my vision board, but there are so many ways to gift experiences that our fun and in the future. When we gifted the kids Lagoon Passes we created a word scramble that they had to put together. Gift Cards: Gift it to them with a specific date in mind for the activity so they have something to look forward to. Science of Anticipation: Having something to look forward to, can actually make you happier! It fires up the feel good hormones in your brain. Joy of anticipation: Actively imagining, and looking forward to, your best life can actually make you more optimistic, studies show. This mental image can make you just as happy as the experience itself, marriage and family therapist Kimberly Diggles told VICE. “We know anticipating something positive actually helps to maintain dopamine levels in your brain,” she said. “So just the very idea of anticipating something good can physically change your brain chemistry so you feel happy.”Hurdle Two: The need to have a visually stimulating Christmas morning: (gag)Christmas movies, social media, and even our own memories of running down the stairs Christmas morning to a room FULL of presents have given us this almost standard of what our Christmas presentation needs to look like. Confession: I bought MORE just so that it would look more aesthecially pleasing. Huge face palm. Solution: Gotta shift that mindset. Hurdle Three: Day of let down, once everything is unwrapped and they have “nothing to show for it” Solution: Have a plan for the day. Gift something you can use or do the day of Solution: Kids gift to each other- more intentional and thought out. Solution: Get creative with how you gift it: The gift I created this year for my kids: things to consider when gifting experiences We've all been there.. The post holiday itch to burn everything down. You want to tree gone, the decor gone, you need calm and minimalist vibes and you need them now. The post Christmas gift giving has you noticing all the excess, all the new (and old) toys, gadgets, and just stuff taking up space in your house. And before you know it, out come the trash bags, and donation bins, and the very real task of deciding what stays and what goes. This itch to have a post holiday refresh or declutter is nothing new. And honestly the timing is perfect for it. It's a new year and it feels good to let things go, to freshen up and clean the house, and just have things feel lighter. But does anyone else find it just the slightest bit ironic that we all just spent a whole month (or more depending on when you got started shopping) bringing more and more and more into our homes. And now we feel the need to purge?! In an effort to avoid (or at least lesson) the task of decluttering and filtering out what stays and what gets tossed or donated I've wanted to be much more intentional about how we approach gift giving at Christmas time. And that's where I've landed. TIME. I think most of us would agree that time is our most valuable asset and probably the most valuable gift we could give. Over the years I've heard lots of families talk about gifting trips or experiences instead of presents and I've always thought that was a great idea……but not one that I could make work for my family. I had some limiting thoughts around it. Like, if I was going to give up presents under the tree

Solution audits are a great way to work around challenges with your current implementation, whether it is because you are curious about the effort to fix an issue, complete a migration, or improve user adoption, an audit can make a huge difference in terms of effectiveness of a Dynamics 365 Solution for any organization.

As a direct response to COVID-19, telehealth has become less of a stopgap and more of a permanent way to provide care delivery to patients. Lawmakers are scrambling to introduce legislation that aim to expand telehealth access beyond the pandemic. But, with a split Senate what is the likelihood of any movement for permanent telehealth solutions in the near future? JPA Health's Public Affairs team discusses influencing the agenda of a Congress to elevate the issue of telehealth and what key stakeholders should do. Don't miss an episode of ELEVATE, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify.

In this episode of a series of podcasts on pet food safety, Dr. Donna DeBonis, the Pet Food Vet, tells you exactly how euthanasia solution gets into pet food, so you can understand what you need to know about how to avoid it and other poisons in your pet's food. Dr. Donna DeBonis (formerly Army Veterinary Officer, LTC DeBonis) served in three combat deployments to Afghanistan and Kosovo. In the Army she became certified as an Army Food Auditor and inspected millions of dollars of food to verify its safety for soldiers to consume at the Dining Facilities at Kandahar Air Field. She also performed emergency surgeries on Military Working Dogs that were blown up by IEDs, stabbed by local insurgents, and shot at close range by terrorists. Having served honorably, she was highly decorated and received the Unit Bronze Star. In the wake of numerous pet food recalls, she used her GI Bill to get more training in food safety with a goal of making sure her client's furbabies ate safe pet food. She now offers pet food testing at: PET FOOD SAFETY VETERINARY LAB . SAFE FOOD FOR THE LIFE OF YOUR PET, became her tagline and now she is prepared to bring this information to you in weekly 30 minute podcasts, as well as private consultations. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/petfoodvet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/petfoodvet/support

Summary:      Today’s episode is all about staying on top of it all...the million little things that pop up in a day of teacher life! We’re not talking about big, regular tasks like lesson planning and grading. This is all about the random tasks we need to take care of that pop up throughout the days, and can lead to major frazzle when we lose track! I share 3 common problems with daily teacher-task-management along with some quick systems you can implement that can make a world of difference.      If you are in need of a bit more personal support, email me at lorraine@appleblossomteachers.com to get on my list for a complimentary coaching call. I’m here to be your personal mentor teacher, helping you problem solve and continue blooming into the confident, impactful educator you are made to be!  Key Points: Problem 1: Losing track of emails you meant to reply to, or needed to take action on. Solution: Create a “follow up” folder for any emails requiring action and schedule specific time blocks to tackle your follow up items. Prioritize the tasks, and work through them regularly. Problem 2: A million to-do lists, all over the place, and items keep getting forgotten (maybe from that list that fell between your passenger seat and center console!) Solution: Brain dump and collect all of your tasks - find great pointers from Shelley over at Let’s Live and Learn Blog. Get all your items organized onto a cloud-based to-do list, such as Trello or Google Keep (find great free Google Keep headers on Teachers Pay Teachers). Having your list on a cloud-based app is super handy, because you can add to it from work, home, or your phone on the go! Schedule time to check and tackle your list regularly. Problem 3: A task popped up at a random time (think: a parent question at dismissal, or a quick chat in the hall with your teammate) and as soon as you get back to your classroom, it’s already been forgotten! Solution: Get it added to your list ASAP! If you have your phone in your pocket, get it written down right away. If you don’t have your app handy (and I know this sounds silly, but I swear it works!) repeat the task in your head all the way back to your classroom, or wherever your nearest to-do list is! As soon as you get there, write it down! Once it’s on the list, and you have systems in place to check your lists, you can start feeling less frazzled and forgetful with all of the little things! Links and resources: Join our conversations in the Apple Blossom Teachers Facebook group Follow me on Instagram: @appleblossomteachers For more about me and what I do, check out my website. Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss an episode! And, if you’re enjoying the show, please leave me a rating and a review. Thanks! 

This episode is a continuation and an extension of the introduction to the series” Godly Solutions.” I will be discussing the need to get wisdom and how wisdom is the heartbeat of every solution.Throughout our lives, we are faced with circumstances and problems, and I realize that the very first step to any solution is getting Wisdom, for the Bible declares it as the principal thing or the most vital component to finding the answer to every situation.Memory Verses: Proverbs 9:10 Amplified Bible10 ”The [reverent] fear of the Lord [that is, worshiping Him and regarding Him as truly awesome] is the beginning and the preeminent part of wisdom [its starting point and its essence],And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding and spiritual insight.”Proverbs 4:6-7 Amplified Bible6 ”Do not [a]turn away from her (Wisdom) and she will guard and protect you; Love her, and she will watch over you.”7 ”The beginning of wisdom is: Get [skillful and godly] wisdom [it is preeminent]!And with all your acquiring, get understanding [actively seek spiritual discernment, mature comprehension, and logical interpretation].

We all want projects to run smoothly. But it's hard to find good help these days, right? And yet, we will become more effective and useful if we learn how to manage these kinds of projects efficiently by helping people to help themselves. Creatives. Innovators. Problem solvers. They're not fundamentally different from accountants, doctors, or factory workers, all of whom may tend toward a linear process. Creatives simply spend more time in what researchers (and John Cleese) call the "open mode;" that mode where ideas and new solutions come. To understand how to coach — and delegate to — creative, smart people, it doesn't hurt to have a process. But to build that process, let's build a foundation of understanding. Principles for Creative/Innovative Work Let's take a look at how people work. Task and Purpose The military does a great job of defining task and purpose. They don't just tell you what to do, also why you're doing it. “Do this so that he is able to do that.” We do the same thing in development work when we talk about user stories. “The user wants to fill in the email signup so that she can get the monthly email.” Defining this helps people to understand the scope. Because if I tell them why, they can understand the value of the task. He or she can then choose for themselves when to give up because it's not worth it, and how to get the best result given the reason for the task. Read: they can make decisions without you An Organized Mind Leads to Improved Focus and Time Focused work doesn't take as long. You get in, you get immersed, you finish and you deliver. And it's satisfying. But how do you get there as a project worker? And as a leader, how do you help them? You have to solve a few problems for them, and then they can solve everything else. Your project workers have problems: They're overwhelmed by the world. They probably filled their brain with emails, social media, and the news before they started work. They're overwhelmed by competing priorities. If the workplace asks too much of people — too many small tasks — for creative workers, they lose focus. They get interrupted. It's hard to work with interruptions, like people talking to you about other things when you're trying to focus. This is especially true for strategists, writers, or developers — people whose work benefits from bringing a system of thinking into their short-term memory to play with. They try to hold too much in their brains. They have a bad working process and think that fewer steps mean faster work. But skipping steps can make work take longer and lack depth. Problem: Short-Term Memory is Limited With short-term memory(STM) in short supply, it's folly to build work practices that depend on it being abundantly available. The solution? Save all that short-term memory for the task they're working on, allowing them to absorb the work and really get into it. Why is it important to allow them to immerse themselves in their work? Because if you can protect their fragile STM, you will preserve their focus and prevent the disruptions that will cost them time, attention and frustration...and will cost you missed deadlines. Problem: Task Switching Costs You When you interrupt them, they have to break away from their thought and attend to you. Sometimes that thought took 15 minutes or more to develop. It could have been a Eureka moment, or it could have been building toward that. This is the task-switching penalty you may have heard about. If you're task switching (multitasking is actually not a thing; we're just task-switching): You complete fewer tasks. You make more errors. All this compounds for cognitively complex tasks. This saps motivation, too, because it's always motivating when your brain is immersed in a problem that you can solve. Solution: Get them Organized Most times, people need you to help them organize their thoughts. You can't do anything about the news they saw on TV ...

We all want projects to run smoothly. But it's hard to find good help these days, right? And yet, we will become more effective and useful if we learn how to manage these kinds of projects efficiently by helping people to help themselves. Creatives. Innovators. Problem solvers. They're not fundamentally different from accountants, doctors, or factory workers, all of whom may tend toward a linear process. Creatives simply spend more time in what researchers (and John Cleese) call the "open mode;" that mode where ideas and new solutions come. To understand how to coach — and delegate to — creative, smart people, it doesn't hurt to have a process. But to build that process, let's build a foundation of understanding. Principles for Creative/Innovative Work Let's take a look at how people work. Task and Purpose The military does a great job of defining task and purpose. They don't just tell you what to do, also why you're doing it. “Do this so that he is able to do that.” We do the same thing in development work when we talk about user stories. “The user wants to fill in the email signup so that she can get the monthly email.” Defining this helps people to understand the scope. Because if I tell them why, they can understand the value of the task. He or she can then choose for themselves when to give up because it's not worth it, and how to get the best result given the reason for the task. Read: they can make decisions without you An Organized Mind Leads to Improved Focus and Time Focused work doesn't take as long. You get in, you get immersed, you finish and you deliver. And it's satisfying. But how do you get there as a project worker? And as a leader, how do you help them? You have to solve a few problems for them, and then they can solve everything else. Your project workers have problems: They're overwhelmed by the world. They probably filled their brain with emails, social media, and the news before they started work. They're overwhelmed by competing priorities. If the workplace asks too much of people — too many small tasks — for creative workers, they lose focus. They get interrupted. It's hard to work with interruptions, like people talking to you about other things when you're trying to focus. This is especially true for strategists, writers, or developers — people whose work benefits from bringing a system of thinking into their short-term memory to play with. They try to hold too much in their brains. They have a bad working process and think that fewer steps mean faster work. But skipping steps can make work take longer and lack depth. Problem: Short-Term Memory is Limited With short-term memory(STM) in short supply, it's folly to build work practices that depend on it being abundantly available. The solution? Save all that short-term memory for the task they're working on, allowing them to absorb the work and really get into it. Why is it important to allow them to immerse themselves in their work? Because if you can protect their fragile STM, you will preserve their focus and prevent the disruptions that will cost them time, attention and frustration...and will cost you missed deadlines. Problem: Task Switching Costs You When you interrupt them, they have to break away from their thought and attend to you. Sometimes that thought took 15 minutes or more to develop. It could have been a Eureka moment, or it could have been building toward that. This is the task-switching penalty you may have heard about. If you're task switching (multitasking is actually not a thing; we're just task-switching): You complete fewer tasks. You make more errors. All this compounds for cognitively complex tasks. This saps motivation, too, because it's always motivating when your brain is immersed in a problem that you can solve. Solution: Get them Organized Most times, people need you to help them organize their thoughts. You can't do anything about the news they saw on TV ...

Three Signs of Perfection Paralysis and How to Break this Bad Habit The challenge most of us face in recognizing the signs of perfection paralysis is that it gets labeled as procrastination. When too many unfinished projects or unresolved issues pile up, we start looking for solutions about how to break this bad habit of procrastination. But, procrastination is just the outcome of what’s going on in our minds. To change the outcome, we have to recognize the signs and consciously make a decision to break this bad habit of perfection paralysis instead. Here’s a recap of three signs your project is stuck in perfection paralysis and solutions for how to break this bad habit: · Stuck in raw idea stage...Solution: Write it down or share it with a trusted friend · Unfinished project or unresolved issue....Solution: Get going with continuous improvement along the way. · Completed but not shared...Solution: Launch as a test then modify if needed to make it a success The story about how 3M created the sticky note? Here’s a link to their story…https://www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/post-it/contact-us/about-us/ Build the business and life you crave! Debbie Donaldson Founder and CEO b2bENTREPRENEUR.org p.s. Subscribe to my YouTube channel Debbie Donaldson Live for new ideas every week to drive your business forward. --- About the Author: Debbie Donaldson published the book Superpowers Activated after realizing her own personal journal contained life balance and growth mindset motivation anyone looking for self improvement would find beneficial. As an entrepreneur and enthusiastic reader of self help books and business books, Donaldson quickly realized that her ideas for how to journal daily improved her own self talk. Although we all have strengths and weaknesses, this new success habit retrained her brain to focus on strengths instead of focusing on weaknesses that lead to self sabotage. As a business motivational speaker her focus is on sharing the ideas that empower her audiences with a plan for how to journal daily and experience power that goes beyond personal willpower to succeed. The change in self talk she inspires in her readers gives them an internal compass for how to be confident in their own unique combination of talents, gifts and blessings combined with their knowledge skills and experience. She even credits the practice of a daily focus on strengths for helping her win her battle with cancer. As her consulting business evolved and attracted business entrepreneurs, Donaldson began looking for ways to share her business success ideas. Within a year Donaldson completed a second book, SALES FUEL to give business owners new ideas for how to get more customers. Access a free copy of SALES FUEL here: https://b2bentrepreneur.org/free-gift b2bENTREPRENEUR.org is an international online marketing, sales and leadership training organization for entrepreneurs interested in profitable, enjoyable, accelerated business growth.

SOLUTION: Get government to work more effectively. Use a disaster response playbook to organize county government around the opioid epidemic. Approach addicted people with compassion, as you’d approach a person with any other medical condition. STORY: Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” just won’t cut it anymore. Also, we learn what a landslide can teach us about tackling the opioid epidemic. This season we’re in Snohomish County, Washington which has an oversized share of overdose deaths in the state and is now treating the opioid epidemic like a natural disaster. LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES: Snohomish County overdose and addiction treatment resource guide. http://snohomishoverdoseprevention.com/treatment-and-support/ Here’s what we refer to as FEMA’s emergency response playbook (the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which outlines the structure of a Multi-Agency Coordination, or MAC, group) https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/148019

SOLUTION: Get the overdose reversal drug, naloxone (aka Narcan) into the hands of everyone who needs it, and train them how to use it. Family, friends and people with addiction themselves can play a big role in stopping overdose death. STORY: A life lost, a life saved. The main character of this episode isn’t a person. It’s a nasal spray. Naloxone (aka Narcan) saves lives from opioid overdoses (heroin, painkillers, fentanyl). Across the U.S., people are dying from opioids, but their deaths are preventable. We walk you through how to save a life using the overdose antidote. LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES: Snohomish County overdose and addiction treatment resource guide. http://snohomishoverdoseprevention.com/treatment-and-support/ Learn to administer Naloxone through an online training. http://stopoverdose.org/section/take-the-online-training/ Learn more about Naloxone and the different forms it comes in. http://harmreduction.org/issues/overdose-prevention/overview/overdose-basics/responding-to-opioid-overdose/administer-naloxone/  Research: Family members can be life savers. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.12551 Research: One study found 61% of drug overdoses occurred at home. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10903127.2017.1315203

No matter how much more you do today, you'll never get everything you need to do done. Let's face it, ever since we could take home with our laptops and fast wi-fi connections, we work more than ever. This hasn't lead to getting more things done; rather more things to do and an unhealthy expectation of getting it all done. On this episode, we'll look at ways to take back our freedom from the distractions caused by the very technology we expect to helps us get more done. Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider leaving your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally! (Download Episode Here) ​(Subscribe in iTunes Here) ​(Connect with CJ on Linkedin) Have any questions, comments, or stories you’d like to share with us? Drop us a line at podcast@cjmcclanahan.com! Connect with CJ on Twitter at @CJMcCoach and on Linkedin On This Week's Episode, We Discuss: Reducing Distractions as a Result of Technology What work-life balance was like before the modern age of the computer and internet. How the printer cut the time it took CJ to do his very first job as a payroll clerk by 90%... How CJ developed a habit of continuing to work at home on nights and weekends. The steps CJ took to overcome an unhealthy obsession with piling more on his plate, so he could find more people to compare himself to. What you can do to reduce amount of noise in your life and its impact. Please Scroll Down for Full Show Notes and Featured Resources! The Two Rule Foundation is on a mission to helps inspire professionals to live gratefully and commit more of their resources to help those in need. The foundation can help you determine who you should give your money to and how. Looking to get more out of all your hard work? Enroll in ThriveMap University, and online video training program for professionals. 100% of the proceeds are donated to the Two Rule Foundation. More About This Show At the start of his career with Arthur Anderson, his was given a laptop. It was his first, and completely useless by today's standards; nonetheless, that evening, the routine of work would change forever. Later that night, he would pull out his new gadget, wait for the strange noise and a flashy cursor-thingy.  He'd fumble through a clunky user-interface, and with luck, be able to find the 'file' he was supposed to 'open' on his 'hard drive'. At the time, these were all very new terms. And as time passed, CJ's career grew, and the power and breadth of devices to help his work become less location-bound, CJ would find himself stealing time from other important areas of his life to 'get caught up' or 'get ahead' with work. While this allowed his career to seemingly progress faster, when he became a business owner and a father all at the same time, it would take him 4 or 5 years to understand how devastating his obsession with work was becoming. CJ's since learned to practice a much more balance life with firm boundaries between work and everything else.  5 Annoying Things that Keep You From Being Really Productive (And How to Begin Addressing Them) Notifications - Keep them off by default. Emails, texts, pushes, payments, reminders, deals, coupons, alerts...  this goes for your Apple watch or smart watch as well SOLUTION: Turn them off, get a separate alarm clock. Make regular times of checking what is most important to you, rather than to the email list you are on. Time Vampires - one quick question can turn into 10-20 minutes or more, plus another 7-20 minutes to get back in the groove. Two or three questions and you've lost a huge part of your day. SOLUTION: Close your door, turn on and be visibly in 'Do Not Disturb' mode. Schedule regular time for employees to meet with you for anything not absolutely urgent. Leave your laptop at the office - If your office is a table at Starbucks, maybe this isn't for you, but if you have a coworkers you trust, non-sensitive information and otherwise no reason to worry about security issues, you take advantage of the opportunity to free yourself from being shackled to your computer. No computer, not as much work. SOLUTION: Even if you can't physically keep yourself away from your computer, you can turn it off, keep it stashed somewhere inconvenient. But whatever you do, keep it as far away from your bed as possible. Short charging cables - Charging cords for smartphones are just long enough to read your bedside table. And since our phone is the last thing we check before we got to bed, for most of us, it's the very first thing we do in the morning... even before throwing off the covers.  SOLUTION: Plug your charger into an outlet in another room. Make a pledge to not check your phone after a specific time and stick with it. Train the aforementioned Time Vampires not to expect an immediate response or any response during times you've set aside. Digital tasks and note pads - When we think of something, but don't write it down, we create a feedback loop that throws our momentum off. We think that by analyze the thought right then and there, we can determine whether or not it could be beneficial to our present situation to pursue further. However most the time these aren't good ideas or the timing isn't right, so we can't do anything with it. We have no choice but the continue to entertain the ideation process though because some of our ideas are really good and can be capitalized upon. SOLUTION: Get a tiny notepad or journal from the 99¢ store, keep it with you at all times, and jot down the ideas you have. You'll then be able to go back and revisit the idea when you are refreshed and avoid creating a feedback loop that drives you crazy and unfocused. Click here to let CJ know about your number one takeaway from this episode! And if you want us to answer your questions on one of our upcoming episodes, drop us a line at podcast@cjmcclanahan.com.

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Join best-selling author Kim Butler and No B.S. Money Guy Todd Strobel in this episode of the the Prosperity Podcast as they discuss the financial challenges that millennials, and really many generations face. Find out what solutions they have for problems like student debt, financial illiteracy and stagnant wages, and how they differ from popular opinions and mainstream media. Tune in to find out how to take control of your finances today. Do you have a question you would like answered on the show? Please send it to us at hello@partners4prosperity.com and we may answer it in an upcoming episode. Links in this Episode: Submit your questions: hello@partners4prosperity.com eBook: Financial Planning Has Failed Credit help: NationalCreditCare.com Article: How Millennials Can Overcome their Six Biggest Financial Obstacles Show Notes: 0:00 Intro 00:24 How Millennials Can Overcome their Six Biggest Financial Obstacles 02:08 Challenge #1: Millennials are Financially Illiterate 05:38 Solution: Get An Auto-Didactic (Self Taught) Education in Personal Finance 08:35 Solution: Get Help With Your Education 10:45 Challenge #2: Millennials are Financially Fragile 12:42 Challenge #3: Millennials are Burdened with Student Loan Debt 13:32 Why You Might Not Want to Pay Down Student Loan Debt as Fast as Possible 15:00 Solution: Skip College? Maybe Not, But Consider Postponing 16:26 Challenge #4: Millennials Wages are Stagnant 18:26 Kim's Solution: Learn to Save, Live on Your Salary 17:04 Articles Solution: Negotiate for a Higher Salary, Look for a Higher Paying Job 19:44 Challenge #5: Rising Rents Eat up a Burdensome Amount of Millennial's Income 20:32 Kim's Solution: Get a Cheaper Apartment, a Second Job, or a Roommate 21:08 Article's Solution: Move Somewhere Cheaper 22:28 Challenge: Fewer and Fewer Millennials are Becoming Full-Time Entrepreneurs 23:03 Solution: Do Both 23:40 Pursue an Entrepreneurial Thought Process

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“I'm in the furniture business. Which media should I use?” “I'd like to target people who are afraid of the dentist. Can you recommend a good mailing list company?” “My uncle uses television ads to attract new customers and they work really well for him. Television ads have made him rich. What's your opinion of TV?” “No one in my town listens to the radio anymore. Everyone has satellite or an iPod.” “I tried advertising. It doesn't work for my kind of business.” People say things like this and expect me to have an intelligent response. What usually happens is that I stand there, dull-eyed, with my mouth hanging open. These are not my favorite moments. When my brain finally recovers and I tell them the truth they need to hear, they act as though I've sidestepped their question. Here's the truth they needed to hear. Maybe you need to hear it, too: Relevance is what determines whether an ad works or not. Every media fails when it delivers a message no one cares about. Have you ever run an ad that failed? Let's pull aside the curtain and look backstage to see what really happened: 1. The ad was so predictable that few people even noticed it. SOLUTION: Get a new ad writer or remove the handcuffs from the one you've got. 2. Prospective customers noticed the ad, received the message and understood it perfectly. They just didn't care. SOLUTION: Dump the irrelevant subject matter. Discover what people actually care about and talk about that instead. 3. The ad's message would have been relevant, but it was unclear. SOLUTION: Remind your writer that creativity often gets in the way of clarity. Remind your layout artist that the prettiest ad is rarely the most effective. You're running a business, not a magazine. Make sure the dynamic duo understands that their continued employment depends on creating ads that sell the product. 4. You committed to an ad campaign that was shorter than your product selling cycle. If people buy your product once a week, don't expect your ads to return a profit during the first week. If people buy once a month, don't expect to break even on your advertising during the first 30 days. If your product selling cycle is longer than 2 years, you can expect to lose money on your ads – even if they're good – the first 4 to 6 months. You'll start pulling ahead during the second six months. Your real growth won't happen until you begin reaching that same group of people for a second year. SOLUTION: Commit to an ad campaign that's longer than your product selling cycle. 5. The listener failed to be engaged because the ad was written from a cultural perspective other than the customer's own. (This is why Anglo-conceived Hispanic campaigns usually fail. Translating language is easy. Transferring cultural perspective is nearly impossible.) SOLUTION: Hire a different ad writer to https://wizardacademy.org/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=172 (create the second campaign.) Make sure the writer is from the cultural background he or she is trying to reach. Bottom Lines: Ads that fail in one media would usually have failed in any other. The media is not the message. The message is the message. And the message is what matters most. To deliver a pointless message powerfully is the definition of hype. To deliver a powerful message pointlessly is the result of weak creative. To deliver a powerful message powerfully is the first step in making a fortune. Now go do it. And good luck. Roy H. Williams