It’s Top 10 Week here at timmilburn.com. Check out the first two lists here and here. Mark Victor Hansen gives great wisdom when he says, “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will …
10 Suggestions To Save Your Speech
It’s difficult to get people’s attention. It’s even harder to keep people’s attention. Making a speech is part communication, part theater. That’s right, you’re an actor/actress on a stage. You finally get your chance to make your presentation, your talk, your big speech. Now that you have their attention, you must now spend your precious time entertaining, as well as …
10 Strategies To Grow In Your Influence With Others
Welcome to Top 10 Week. Each day, I’ll be publishing an article that includes a Top 10 list of ideas, tips, or strategies (like today) that will help you be a better leader. Everyone loves a good Top 10 list. I’m going to offer you some of mine and let you decide if they’re good. One of the top skills …
It Doesn’t Have To Be Lonely At The Top
I’ve been writing quite a bit on the importance of leading yourself first. I believe it’s important – even foundational – as a prerequisite to the effort and energy we use trying to lead others. But it’s not all about “me.” In fact, the motivation to lead yourself first finds its greatest meaning and significance when its about serving others. …
How Should I Respond?
When I was in the third grade, the popular way (and most direct way) to ask a girl if she liked you was to write her a note expressing your affection and at the bottom give her three options to check her answer (Yes!, no, and my personal favorite…maybe). Then you’d give the note to your friend, who gave it …
You’re Contagious
With the weather changing, we’re entering into the flu season. People stay away from other people who have the flu because they don’t want to get it. Contagious is a condition that passes on to me what you already have. The truth is we pass on things to other people everyday. Disease isn’t just physical. A bad attitude is contagious. …
What To Do With Your Extra Hour
The way a person spends his or her time say a lot. Use it, abuse it, mismanage it, or make the most of it – our use of time effects whether we’re able to do things that really matter. Michelangelo is noted on one occasion as working feverishly to finish a certain project. When he was questioned and warned that …
5 Ways We Lead Ourselves Below The Surface
On the surface of the water, an iceberg can appear small and harmless. But underneath the water’s surface, the major portion (90%) of the iceberg can pose serious threats to boats and vessels that pass too close (think Titanic). The bulk of the iceberg lives below the surface. It’s not visible to those who pass by. But it’s there. This …