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Idea Discovery: Website – Spheres Graphics

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here’s my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that. Want to add sizzle to your visuals so you present your ideas more professionally? Check out this terrific website I found with TONS of individual – free – icons, web art, buttons, and more! Mouserunner.com offers Spheres Graphics, providing MAC & Windows downloads of icons in various sizes. You can spend literally hours here! Click HERE for access. My goal is to serve you with resources and strategies that help you clarify, organize, and implement your ideas. Stay connected with…

Setting Priorities…Like Filling a Jar With Rocks, Stones, Pebbles, & Sand (VIDEO)

When I do workshops on setting goals for your ideas, breaking goals down into actionable steps, and then determining the priorities of those actions, I frequently use an analogy – and a handout – referencing filling a jar with rocks (the big items / top priorities), stones (of medium importance), pebbles (the items that you tag for “getting to at some point”), and sand (the small and many “to dos” in life). A friend shared this video with me that highlights these analogies. It’s a powerful visual that compliments my handout / worksheet. Post by Karim Metwaly.

Idea Discovery: Article – Why your best ideas rarely make it past your desk

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here’s my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that. In my opinion, LinkedIn is one of the best resources online for making professional connections and finding great content. I recently read this LinkedIn article, ‘Why Your Best Ideas Rarely Make it Past Your Desk’, written by James G. Bohn, Ph.D., a management consultant at ProAxios. In his article, James unveils his findings after researching why some ideas, even great ones, never get off the ground. He asked participants three questions based on their experiences regarding ideas. What he found were…

Not Too Late – Five 4Q Actions to Save Your Business & Get to “Done” This Year

I had a conversation with a colleague the other day and she lamented that she had not gotten as far this year with accomplishing her goals as she would have liked. What alarmed me was that she wrote off this year – and it was only October – saying that it was too late to handle anything more this year, and that she would “get to planning to take care of things at the beginning of next year”. “Whoa!”, I said. First, there’s a few weeks left in 4Q (the fourth quarter of a year), and productivity in those few…

Idea Discovery: Website – Infographic Journal

Make your IMPACT(c) … one idea at a time! Here’s my Idea Discovery for today to help you do just that. If you love using visuals on social media or as part of an email campaign, I came across this terrific resource for infographics. Infographic Journal is a website that focuses on the best infographics on the internet. An infographic is a visual representation of information. Infographic Journal publishes anywhere between 35-50 new high quality infographics every week, bringing you the best of the best in infographics. If you happen to be a creator of Infographics, you can also…