You Can't Hit a Home Run without Follow Through

How many of you have a green thumb and enjoy gardening?  Mike and I grew herbs in a garden we have grown to love this summer, and it’s been rewarding. But we knew that to ACHIEVE the best results, we had to consistently tend it by taking care of the basics – watering, weeding, and…

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Numbers Are Fundamental to Achieving Maximum Results

This week, we‘ll delve into the ACHIEVE aspect of our legacy business mantra: LEARN, GROW, ACHIEVE and PROSPER. In business, achievement can be marked by reaching milestones in sales and profits. If math wasn’t your favorite subject in school, trust me: You’re not alone. Often the creative types who are driven to be innovative, pave…

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Be SMART About Creating and Achieving Your Goals

In an effort to help you GROW, last week I challenged you to ask yourself some specific questions and to answer those questions honestly.  Your next step is to take those answers and create short and long term goals for yourself.    To do this, you will want to use the SMART system. SMART is an…

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Planning for Growth

This week we continue the focus on our motto, LEARN, GROW, ACHIEVE and PROSPER, by focusing on the second word – GROW.  As a reminder, the definition of GROW is to become better or improved in some way, or to become more developed and mature. “Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and…

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It’s Ok to Pat Yourself on the Back

Somewhere over time, society has taught us that we should be humble and quietly go about our business. Again and again, the message is reinforced that we should never “toot our own horn”. This lesson is often doubly reinforced to women. I have to break the mold and say that there’s a real problem with this…

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