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Your Partner In Success Welcomes David Lee

Denise Griffitts — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:07:00 +0000

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Consultant, Author and Speaker David Lee is the founder of Human Nature at Work. He has worked with organizations and presented at conferences both domestically and abroad. He is the author of over 60 articles and book chapters on maximizing employee performance that have been published in North America, Europe, India, China, and Australia.

He has held positions as a clinician and trainer in the healthcare field and as a supervisor and trainer in the corporate world. He has worked in the stress management and resilience field for over 25 years. His program “Becoming Resilient” has been aired on public radio several times.

David Lee’s work draws from a broad range of disciplines, including neuroscience, stress research, accelerated learning, organizational development, psychology, anthropology, and peak performance technologies. Much of his work involves synthesizing scientific research on human nature and then translating these principles into practical strategies for optimizing individual and organizational performance.

Our topic today will be, “Whatever Life Brings: How to Face Change, Challenge, and Uncertainty With Courage, Confidence, and Optimism”.

Today’s world of unrelenting change and uncertainty requires that we possess a level of resilience far greater than ever before. Traditional stress management techniques aren’t enough to develop the adaptability, vitality, and serenity needed to face the demands of the world we live in.

Drawing from both leading edge research and time-tested wisdom traditions, David Lee’s approach to resilience will provide you with provocative perspectives and practical strategies for increasing your capacity to live in the midst of change, challenge, and uncertainty with serenity, optimism, and vitality. This program is especially useful for people going through major life changes, such as health challenge, career transition, job loss, or the ending of a relationship.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, January 29, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

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Your Partner In Success Welcomes Vickie Mullins

Denise Griffitts — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:43:31 +0000

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Vickie Mullins built Mullins Creative, a full-service graphic design firm, on a foundation of broad business experience in managerial roles including operations, advertising and retail. Her company excels in print design, with a specialty in multi-page documents … books, magazines, tabloids, directories, and company brand development and execution.

In 2006 Vickie started a publishing company after authoring a series of eight books. From the lessons she learned through the school of hard knocks, today she guides authors through the steps of becoming independent publishers where they maintain control of their books and their financial destiny. An expert on Special Market Sales, Vickie says she doesn’t care if she ever sells another single book … instead, she’d rather sell her books by the 1,000s.

Family, church and community are the focus of Vickie’s after hours. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona has been married for more than 30 years and is Mom to two grown children. She is an active volunteer with the American Diabetes Association, and has served her church in innumerable capacities. Her activities have earned her, and her company, many local and national awards.

We will be covering the in’s and out’s of getting your book published with the largest focus on self-publishing.

Unless you are a celebrity, the chances of selling thousands of books is slim to none. Until you think of your book as a business.

No matter how pretty a book, if the content is bad, the book won’t sell to anyone but friends and family.

The good, the bad and the ugly of current self-publishing opportunities.

You get what you pay for in book production.

Print on Demand. POD. The days of garages full of books are gone.

Selling on your web site vs. Amazon & Barnes and Noble, etc.

A book doesn’t have to be a huge tome to make a lot of money… booklets can do the job.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, January 22, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

Denise

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Invitation to Test oneMYnd – Very Limited Time!

Denise Griffitts — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:34:30 +0000

My radio interview yesterday with OneMYnd founder Michael Bloxton garnered a lot of information about just what oneMYnd is and why you as an online entrepreneur, coach, virtual service provider or Virtual Assistant should be very, very interested in learning more about this revolutionary new online tool.

Michael is giving my audience time-sensitive access to the pre-release version of onMYnd. As oneMYnd is scheduled to come out of BETA very soon, this access will be disabled on Monday, January 18, 2010. Please use the login information below.

Visit oneMynd.com

Website: http://oneMYnd.com/index.aspx

Password: onlinesuccess

Listen to Interview

You can hear and download the interview here.

I would love to hear your feedback after you explore this wonderful system!

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Your Partner In Success Welcomes Michael Bloxton

Denise Griffitts — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:39:12 +0000

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World renowned speaker and bestselling author, Mary Manin Morrissey describes Michael Bloxton as “someone you want to know.” She further explains that “through hard work and self development, Michael has become one of the world’s youngest forward thinkers and innovators in the arena of the human potential movement. Keep your eyes open for this young man because he is going places and you will certainly want to be there when he arrives.”

Michael has created oneMYnd, a web system dedicated to the development of individuals and provides students of life with the means to connect, collaborate, create and evolve to their utmost potential. This is accomplished by making available an online environment combining the most effective means to connect with others, learn and educate from an individual’s perspective up to the masses perspective, facilitate business development and growth on a global scale for every user all while providing unique and innovative tools to help each individual realize their true potential and opportunity.

oneMYnd is the first website of its kind, providing an interactive learning environment for forward thinkers with an intuitive platform for coaching and social networking. The website has evolved into a literal “one stop shop” for those passionate about learning, entrepreneurship, life and corporate coaching, and networking with like minds and kindred spirit. In the words of Mary Manin Morrissey, “oneMYnd is revolutionizing access to knowledge about personal growth and self development for the generations to come.”

Founder and creator Michael Bloxton explains, “unlike any other web system out there, we are creating the first ever online environment for coaches to share their specific information in the most innovative and stimulating way.” oneMYnd provides the business solutions that coaches demand and offers tremendous value added services. In short, oneMYnd is changing the way the world learns and ultimately how the world does business.

Michael’s vision for oneMYnd, is to have a web system dedicated to the development of individuals. “I want to give each and every life student on the planet the opportunity to create their own economy through an intuitive global education system.”

I am proud to be a member of the oneMYnd coaching council and Michael and I will be discussing this incredible teaching tool at length. If you are a coach or entrepreneur who wants to create a learning environment, or a Virtual Assistant who has clients who teach and coach, this is a very important interview for you.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, January 15, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

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Scareware Attacks on the Rise

Denise Griffitts — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:30:09 +0000

Scareware Popup

I don’t know if this is something you can attribute to the economy or not, but scareware attacks are on the rise. What is scareware? You know those pop-up windows that seemingly come out of nowhere to tell you that your computer has been infected with a virus? That is scareware. These applications are being built solely to steal personal information and spread viruses online.

Recently companies like Google, Twitter and the New York Times found themselves being exploited by hackers as part of a massive attack on consumers. The Better Business Bureau is offering advice on how to protect computers and personal information from scareware which can appear on even the most trusted websites.

There are steps you can take to protect your personal information and your computer. By staying wary and never letting your guard down, you can avoid a lot of heartache and angst.

Protect your computer. Install updates to your operating system and purchase antivirus software from a name you recognize and trust and be sure to keep that software up to date. Some of the leading anti-virus software providers are Norton (Symantec), McAfee, and AVG.

Make sure that all security patches and updates are installed for your web browser and programs such as Adobe Flash Player.

Take immediate action if you believe that you are the victim of a scareware attack. If you receive a scareware popup window (see images below), force the window to close through your task manager. To do this on a PC, hold down the ctrl, alt and delete keys simultaneously, open your task manager, find the browser in the list of running programs and click “end task.” Once you have closed the window, run your anti-virus scan to make sure that nothing awful happened.

Stay alert and err on the side of caution when you are unsure of anything.

Manage Your Time by Managing Your Self-Interruptions

Denise Griffitts — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:43:51 +0000

Wasted Time

The promise that technology will make our lives easier is true in many respects, but more people are finding themselves time poor than ever before. To run our businesses more effectively we need to become very aware of where the time bleeds are and manage them.

If, for instance, you are in the habit of checking your email every 30 minutes or so, you will find that at the end of the day you wasted a considerable amount of time on a task that probably should be scheduled twice a day. Do you spend a lot of time in and out of Social Media sites such as Facebook or Twitter? Again, by designating a specific time, or times of each work day you can save hours of wasted motion.

I use an online productivity tool called Rescue Time (available for Mac and Windows) that allows me and the members of my team to easily and effortlessly track how productive we are each day so we can avoid and in some cases, banish distractions.

Rescue time actually allows you to specify a period of time you want to focus on the projects at hand and will block the parts of the web that you tend to go to without thinking or planning. You can set the number of hours you want to spend in a day on a particular site and Rescue Time will alert you on your email, RSS reader, or by SMS when you run out of time. You can create groups and compare your online stats with other users. There are Rescue Time widgets for blogs, iGoogle, and Netvibes. You can also create a white-list of sites that you want Rescue Time to pay attention to.

Check out the free trial here and please be sure to let me know your thoughts on this tool after you have used it for a while.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show Welcomes Back Jim Bouchard

Denise Griffitts — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:18:12 +0000

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Jim Bouchard was my guest in November, 2009 and we had so many topics to talk about and so much valuable information to impart that we quite simply ran out of time. Jim very graciously agreed to return on Friday, January 2010 and I am very much looking forward to speaking with him again. Jim is dynamic, passionate about helping other people, and funny!

Jim Bouchard thinks like a Black Belt, and he’ll help you think like a Black Belt too!

Jim’s resume is colorful. As a former television writer and producer, Jim has done everything from fitting pipes on submarines, mopping floors, pumping gas and selling hot dogs to producing television commercials, fighting fires, boxing, playing drums in major concerts, hosting radio shows and kicking for semi-pro football teams.

In 2007 Jim decided to share the philosophy of self-improvement he developed through his life as a martial artist and entrepreneur. His first book, Dynamic Components of Personal POWER also launched him on his next career as a speaker and media personality.

We will be chatting about success and the dynamic components of personal power. I have a lot of questions for Jim and invite you to join us in the chat room or on the line to ask your questions during the interview.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, January 8, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

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Facebook Privacy Settings Have Changed

Denise Griffitts — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:39:12 +0000

In the past couple weeks Facebook has made a few changes that may have altered your Privacy settings and those of 350 million other users.

Depending on whether your Facebook profile is personal or used largely for business, you need to look at your privacy settings and determine just what you want other people and the search engines to see.

I recommend you take the following steps to update your profile and account privacy to the level that you want:

Click on “Settings” in the upper left-hand corner of your screen, near the Search box.
Click on “Privacy Settings” from the drop-down menu.
Click on “Profile Information” and set each item listed to your preferred privacy level.
Click “Back to Privacy” above the list of items.
Click on “Contact Information” and repeat choosing your level of privacy for all the items listed, as you see fit.
Click “Back to Privacy” above the list of items. And now Click on “Search” to edit who can search you, as well as if you want your profile at all to be indexed by search engines.

Read Facebook’s Privacy Policy here.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show Welcomes Jay Speyerer

Denise Griffitts — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:16:27 +0000

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Jay Speyerer has been a speaker, a writer, and an educator for more than 30 years, successfully helping people achieve their goals in memoir writing, e-mail issues, cross-cultural communication, and presentation skills.

For fact fans, Jay was on the faculty of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, teaching photography, communication, and non-linear scriptwriting, among other subjects. After 25 years, he decided to leave education and run his company, Legacy Road Communications, full time. As a speaker and un-trainer, he still gets to stand at the front of the room and tell people what to do. He’s just taken his act on the road.

Jay is also finding himself in demand as a speech doctor, adding humor and clarity to presentations in the unique style of the individual presenter. He’s accustomed to putting words in people’s mouths from years of writing fiction and screenplays, so this talent comes naturally.

Jay is a member of the National Speakers Association (President-Elect of the Pittsburgh chapter), the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. He is the author of two books, Cat Got Your Thumb? and The Stories of Our Days, and he created The Story System: The Guide to the Methodical Memoir.

We will be covering the following topics:

What are some of the techniques that can help online business people and bloggers write their true story using techniques of fiction writing?

Can just anyone tell their story?

What’s the secret to writing a good story? Is there a formula

Do people make it more difficult than it needs to be?

What if as a Virtual Assistant or copywriter you want to tell someone else’s story? Do these same techniques apply?

Body language plays a large part in communication. We will chat about the ways that this occurs.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, December 11, 2009

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

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Your Partner In Success Radio Show Welcomes Loren Fogelman

Denise Griffitts — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:04:38 +0000

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Are you concerned about finances? Wonder why clients are not coming to you? You don’t feel genuine when telling others about what you do? Loren Fogelman is a success expert and Emotional Freedom Techniques advanced practitioner. Loren helps to transform the head games you play that keep you from putting yourself out there in a big way. The strategy is to get you excited about marketing your business.

Loren has worked with thousands of professionals in demanding careers who are really good at what they do but feel uncomfortable having to sell themselves. The goal is to help you get past the discomfort of marketing to grow your business.

With laser focus Loren is able to identify core issues quickly and use a results based strategy to reach your peak potential to grow your business. She developed the Mindset for Marketing Success System, a series of 7 important steps to create the mindset for marketing success to grow your business. You deserve to step into your greatness.

We will be covering the following topics:

The four primary fears and how they can impact somebody trying to grow their business.

How perception and beliefs affect success.

Defining fear.

Determining how you will respond in one of three ways to obstacles.

Why the Law of Attraction seems to work beautifully for some and not so well for others.

Why you are working your heart and soul to death but always struggling to make ends meet. We will discuss the underlying conflict that can contribute to this situation.

Turning negatives into positives and moving towards a solution rather than away from a perceived problem.

Taking that leap of faith that helps you grow your business.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, December 4, 2009

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

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