How to communicate with confidence, by Laura Benjamin
From the monthly archives:
I took some time to step away from blog posts, could you tell? Sometimes it’s a good thing to take a break and refocus your sights to clarify the purpose of what we do with our time. It really should mean something.
So here are two stories that definitely mean something. Hopefully you will find yourself inspired, [...]
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It’s amazing what happens when we take the time to chat with someone new. We were at an Independence Day family party near Divide, Colorado and there were a few neighbors attending whom I had never met before. Turns out that one gentleman had grown up near Rochester N.Y. – my hometown! That was coincidence enough to keep [...]
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Have you ever wondered why bottled water has taken hold in our society to the point where we’ll gladly pay three times the cost of a gallon of gas for it? Certainly, it’s handy. In the past we’d have to tote our own in some sort of container, find the closest workable water fountain and hope [...]
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I couldn’t trace back the blog post where I read about this example, so I’ll relate it as best I can from memory. A writer’s agent was speaking at a writing conference with a panel of other agents to an audience of authors and aspiring hopefuls. One gentleman raised his hand to ask a question of the [...]
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Hi Ed, you are most welcome. You brought up an additional point I believe most folks underrate – and that IS the power of the relationships. With a market so filled with advertising messages these days, it’s hard for people to sort through all the information and make good choices. To your point, if I may paraprase – [...]
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I just read an interesting blog post that I’ll link here for you to follow: http://edbrenegar.typepad.com/leading_questions/ The writer, Ed Brenegar, discusses Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. From what Ed had to say, I can’t wait to read it. Ed’s not a bad writer [...]
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Doesn’t it just blow you away how rude people can be when they’re on a cell phone? I’m sure I’m not the only person who notices this. How many times have you sat near someone on a train, bus, the tube or in a restaurant and been startled out of your skin by their loud, obnoxious ring [...]
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