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Here are the High Payoff steps to use. 1 Simple Action to Boost Your HIGH Payoff Life In our busy, busy lives, have we forgotten some of the simple courtesies? Do you regularly greet people you come into contact with a Hello? Maybe it's time to stop and pay more attention to the simple courtesy of greeting people. 3 Business Productivity Lessons From The Yoga Mat Learn these 3 productivity-boosting lessons we can all use to create High Payoff results in our business. 3 High Payoff Tricks to Get Your Decisions Made! Still Stuck? Not making any progress on that To Do haunting you from the top of your list? Feel like the same ideas over and over? This sure gets in the way of coming up with new approaches to situations that are stalled. In fact, the end result of that 'helpful' mental activity is that we often give the available options no attention at all. Let's change your frame of reference. 3 Paths to Profit With High Payoff Silence As business owners and entrepreneurs, one of our greatest challenges is when to talk and when not to. Too often we talk too much. Did you realize that there are 3 keys of high payoff silence that result in much more powerful and profitable plans and solutions? When you use these 3 Keys you'll unlock the solutions and profits that have been hiding in the minds of everyone around the table. 3 Steps To Break Through Overwhelm! Every once in a while, things simply pile up. So much so that you're unable to make a decision. I have 3 simple steps for getting out of overwhelm. I share them here with you so you'll have them in your back pocket. 3 Ways To Break Deadlocks on Your Team In your position as a leader, do you often view yourself as a referee on the grammar school playground during lunch break? Holding this image in your mind can help you calm the disputes and get everyone refocused on the elements that have broken down and led to the finger pointing. 3 Ways To Weather The Tough Times In Your Business Has your confidence by shaken by the economic news these past few weeks? Feeling like you don't have any control over what is going on in the world and how it may influence your business and personal lives? Are you looking down your 'pipeline' and everything looks dry? Here are several techniques you can use to fill your pipe-line, right now, when you've got that extra time on your hands. 5 Fresh Steps Will Help You Graduate to HIGH Payoff Activities! If you're like most people who are running a business, as an owner, an executive or an independent professional you get so immersed in the doing you miss your own graduations. Graduations? What do you mean by graduations? Recognition for advancement in your business lives. A High Payoff Tip That Expands Your Chances of Success Stuck with a particular point of view about how best to proceed? Stuck with your 'knowing' based on many years experience in the industry. You may be stuck Are You Practicing High Payoff Avoidance? You've heard many people talk about the natural and necessary progression from idea to decision to action. Their list consists of Hunger, Desire, Avoidance, Emergency. I've found them truly the most frequent triggers for action. I imagine you're familiar with them in your personal life. But, do you realize how they influence your actions in leading and managing your business? Avoid The Action! Trap Learn From the Private Equity Experts Although private investors are often looking at their three to five year exit strategy, it's a perspective that keeps attention on how every effort is increasing or diverting the value of the business. Every decision, every choice, is deliberately aligned with that objective. Regardless of whether you're an independent professional, or owner of a business, here's a High Payoff model for your own m Break The Fright Cycle, Out-Smart The Business Ghouls Are you tired about all the news about the bad economy? All the bad things that are going to happen to you? Maybe it's time for you to take a walk in the woods. In other words, maybe it's time to focus on what you have control over. Break Your Control Freak Habit and Catalyze Your Business Would you do just about anything to keep your hand 'in' your business, rather than hand the work off to others? If you do, you may be sabotaging your own success. Bring Your Passion to Work What do you do with your passion? Too many of the business owners I work with have buried their passion under the idea that business is driven by practicality and force. Not only do they bury their passion from their own view. They've also hidden it from those around them who can be inspired by it. Build Your Business by the Numbers No one is keeping their eye on the numbers. They have missed the hidden element that really magnetizes results: Measuring. Discover how measuring the value of the activity so that you'll know if the investment of time, energy, resources, political capital and so on was worth it. Business Lessons from the Lazy River Often times our businesses can be humming along so steadily that we forget to notice the changes we could make to enliven our workday daylight hours, and even to create High Payoff results for ourselves. Join me as I walk through observations of people on a lazy river. Bust OUT of "Stuck!" 3 Steps That Release Your Breaks! Do you find yourself full of new ideas, things being pushed to the back burner, decisions not getting made? Do you feel a sense of overwhelm to the point of inaction? Many times we are bombarded by more information, more ideas and more opportunity than we can follow through on - that's success! Check out my 3-step process to bust out of being stalled and overwhelmed. Bust Out of "Stuck" 3 Steps That Keep you On Track Get a handle on the tug of war for your attention, or your future is at risk! You will always be bombarded by more information, more ideas and more opportunity than you can follow through on - that's success! As you keep your attention focused, you'll retain control over your attention and find each item is dealt with much faster than you had anticipated. In turn, you'll find the sensations of ove Change Your Results - It's All In The Labels You Use The results you're getting may due to the personal identity you're fiercely and proudly holding on to. This High Payoff technique can easily shift you, your identity and your results in one sentence. Coming Up Dry On The "Vision" Thing I focus exclusively on consulting to and coaching business owners and professionals who have a vision they're trying to accomplish...and are fed up with feeling stalled. I find that too many of my clients get out of bed in the morning thinking about their To Dos and not about their Vision. Are you too busy focusing on your To Dos rather than your vision? Cut Through Habits And Transform Your Business Set aside time every week to get your thinking stirred up. Linda shares 3 ways you can use 5, 10 and 15-minute increments to release the sparks to boost your results. Diversify The Ideas That Build Your Business I have favorite resources that I give to management teams whose companies are facing growth challenges, leadership practices, and marketing. I encourage them to extract the core idea, perhaps even a quote that will illustrate a new way of thinking about their challenges. Let me share with you some of the core ideas I've discovered. Does Your Business Represent Who You Are NOW? Often times we find that the business model we're using now has changed significantly from what we started with. Does your current model reflect what the market is seeking? Does it reflect who your clients are now? Get High Payoff Results When You Burst Your "Certainty" Bubble Have you ever had the experience of being absolutely positively completely certain about something? Your idea, your opinion, your experience - all telling you that you 'know'? EVERYONE is susceptible to being absolutely certain. "Widen Your View" and expand your options with this High Payoff Technique. Get Your Productivity Boosted By Eliminating 'Upsets' One of the most overlooked reasons for breakdowns in personal and business productivity is "right behind your eyes!" Your mind is in a fog because of all the assumptions and convictions that are chattering away, having their own conversation. They're blocking your ability to listen with an open mind, think analytically about the information you have or need to get, and develop targeted solutions. Get Your Slipped Plans Back On Track Have you ever had one of those days where nothing seemed to go right? When those days occur, we have choices in how we'll react. Walk through one such day with me and let's see what options we have. Have You Planned for a High Payoff Trip with Your Business? Business owners and professionals need to evaluate if what they are currently doing is going to carry them forward to their next destination. If not, they must find the tools and resources they need. That process of assessing and refreshing is vital. High Payoff Lessons from Delos, The Captain and Art Have you ever found yourself doing the 'pivot dance.' You know the one. You have the ball of one foot anchored to the ground as the other foot circles around it. You start to step forward, pause, turn back, pause, waver back and forth as you try to decide where you meant to go. Competing thoughts overload your brain until you have to stand still and laugh! Are you doing the 'pivot dance with your High Payoff Lessons From Luggage - Get Past The Baggage Packing for trips says a lot about how we live our business lives. Too often in our businesses, we don't even know what our itinerary is and, as a result, we can't make decisions about the direction to go. How can we pack when we don't know where we're going? High Payoff Living - Keeping Your Vision Alive! As business owners, we're often looking for the step-by-step road map to how to get it all in focus and under control, and make more money. We give everything in our lives the same importance and the same priority. Except one thing... High Payoff Results Need a High Payoff Vision Are you finding your progress stalled? The starting point for creating productive, profitable business efforts is the same for mega corporations, family owned businesses, professional service firms, or technology start-ups. It depends upon the clarity of your Vision. And how well you communicate it. Hop, Skip or Jump Your Way to Entrepreneurial Success There are different types of entrepreneurs. Many think all entrepreneurs fall into a single unique category and can be considered 'successful' for making that choice. There are many different kinds of entrepreneurs in business. Some lead effectively and some do not. Which kind are you? How to Avoid the "Poof, Gone!" Syndrome - Use Systems That Work For YOU To be successful in business, you must have systems in place. There are lots of systems 'guaranteed' to work for you—everything from cute little cards that go in your shirt pocket, sophisticated computer systems that 'ding' to remind you of your next item on your calendar, and enormous expensive 'organizers' that every single thought, meeting and commitment are captured in. Is It Time To "Reset" Your Business? When is 'too much to do' finally enough? I mean enough to have you reach out and slap your personal and business 'reset' button? Do you ever feel like you're buried under overwhelm? Sometimes prioritizing the to do list isn't what needs to be done. Is It Time To Lose Your Luggage? Often times, I've found that how we handle our physical luggage is practically the same as how we handle our travel luggage. And there's a better way to handle our suitcases and our mental baggage. Explore with me how we can 'pack' so that we're more efficient. Is Your Business Waiting For a Quake? If you haven't ever experienced an earthquake before, 20 seconds of the earth trembling beneath your feet can shake up your life! Sometimes it takes shocking external events in our lives to help us refocus on what's important. Law Of Attraction Is The THIRD Step For Businesses We've all been hearing about the Law of Attraction recently. No matter what you've heard and what you've implemented, it's been proven out that if you don't consciously declare what you want, you'll continually attract what your unconscious mind wants to attract rather than what you say you want. This pertains to business too. Lessons From Luggage - Plan Your Business's High Payoff Voyage Luggage, and how we use it, is a great reflection of how we live our business lives. We often carry the 'luggage' of our Know How and skills and use our resources through our business lives and are unaware of the results we get from our old ideas, old decision-making habits and old communication style. Here are some steps to ensure you're you're getting the best value out of what you're taking wit Make Antoni Gaudi's Secret to Success Your Own! One of my favorite times in my consulting and coaching is when a light bulb goes off and the person I'm working with has an 'ah ha!' moment and spots a new opportunity. It often takes some real in depth probing to uncover the high payoff idea that no one else has spotted. 90% of the time those ideas come your own personal passions and interests. Managing Out-of-Hand To Do Lists - These 5 Steps Get Ideas Into ACTION! There's nothing so marvelous as being able to look back at the end of a day, a week, a month or a year and see everything that's been achieved! I don't mean crossed off of a list, but rather put on a 'done' list that lets you appreciate what's been accomplished. Highly successful people use repeatable techniques that systematically move ideas off of lists and into action. You can use them too. Perk Up Your Business with a 'Persistence Review' The common element everywhere in life and in business seems to be Persistence. Many of our business endeavors require deliberate attention in order to achieve the tasks of the goals we've set. That attention leads to taking specific actions that achieve the overall Vision itself. I'm going to share my Top 5 Tips for Using High Payoff Persistence. Refresh Your Vision With A Business 'Fast' Techniques from other areas of our life apply to businesses. These techniques can help us to shift how we've been approaching business. Join Linda as she walks through one example of this and how it fits into her business. Seizing Opportunities - 3 Keys to Setting Yourself Up For Success As you look at last year, do you ever feel like there wasn't enough time in the day? Did entire afternoons...and sometimes days...slip by without your even noticing? Were you "too" busy? And when you look ahead this year, does it feel like you might relive that? Step Up And Create Your High Payoff Meetings Are you facing so many competing issues that you can't figure out where to start: strategy, capabilities, products or services, and so on? Here are 3 quick tips to make your meetings more effective and productive, immediately. Switch On Your Business's Fat Burning Machine Are you one of the many business owners and professionals feeling buried by all you need to accomplish? Imagine building a business as easily as clearing your distractions, setting your focus, pulling your team together, and focusing your attention on your high payoff activities. Switch On Your Marketing Innovation Machine Four steps to both drive new activities through from first idea to completion, and also provide checkpoints that ensure you won't get stuck along the way. It works for marketing a new entree or your professional services. The NEW 80-20 Rule for Business? Are you using the 80-20 formula in your business? My private 80-20 formula: 80 percent of my time is on 'business' and 20 percent is on 'being fit and limber for business.' The irony in doing this is that my income has quadrupled and my responsibilities have spread, down, down, down. From strategist to file clerk. Maybe you're experiencing the same discovery? The Perfect Argument - The True Secret to Winning! Here's a High Payoff technique you may never have thought of to shake up your thinking and boost your results. These 5 Steps Get "Low Payoff" Out of Your Life We each face the same issue when we're immersed in a topic or a challenge: We get lost in a forest of low payoff ideas that show up and lose sight of the High Payoff choices right in front of us. Successful leaders and managers don't escape from running into low pay-off opportunities, they're just very effective at keeping their attention on the High Payoff activities that will get them to the res [1] [2]	Publish for Free Sign Up For Free Learn More Authors and Writers Submit Articles Submission Guidelines Link to Us Member Login Publishers Article RSS Feeds Link to Us Contact Us Article Aids U Publish Store Article Directories Word Count Utility Search U Publish by: Keyword

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