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Five Take-Aways to Help You Take Your Ideas A Ways Forward

What’s the use in attending conferences if you don’t have take-aways that bring you a return on your investment? To elicit a return on my investment my take-aways need to either benefit myself personally, or my clients and potential clients directly or indirectly by helping me to better serve you. So here are five take-aways I’ve garnered from my conference experiences that you can apply to your businesses and life right away. 1. Hypergrowth through incremental steps. Apply laws of hypergrowth to your business or profession. The law of least effort is that hard doesn’t make things better; only harder….

NSA Convention 2013 – 7/28/13

Attending the National Speakers Association’s international conference in Phila PA. Takeaway from #ChrisClarkeEpstein – implementing ideas after a conference for ROA (return on attendance) or ROI (return on investment): Based on research by Robert O. Brinkerhoff – “What is the implementation rate for how many people implement the ideas they get from a conference?” A. 86% don’t implement A1. 15% never even try A2. 70% try, have trouble, then give up B. 15% use what ideas they get and obtain measurable results I’ll host a webinar called “Integrate Your Ideas into the Rest of Your Life” on August 21, 2013…

Post-Its(TM)

Went to the US Postal Service Museum (Smithsonian) and this exhibit made my heart sing! Post-Its(TM) all over. They must have a deal with 3M!!

Idea Discovery: Article – 30+ Mind Mapping Tools

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here's my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that. Mind-mapping tools are one of the ways we can organize our thoughts and ideas. Check out this article from Mashable.com for 30+ mind-mapping tools; paid AND free! Mind-mapping – writing out details and steps for your thoughts is part of my IMPACT process. Having a process to follow to get clarity, organized, and implementing your idea helps you get your idea out of your head and into action. Click HERE to read the article. My goal is to serve…

CPSI Conference #13

The culmination of this entire CPSI experience! It hit me in my final session that I was making my notes more visually-appealing (to retain info more effectively), playing with toys (to unlock my brain and focus on the session content), and jotting ideas onto separate note sheets so I could put them where they needed to go in other notes). Here's my certificate. I'm ready to help you (even more) get your ideas out of your head and into action!