Richard Shapiro, founder and CEO of the Center for Client Retention, is also an avid collector of memorabilia representing the very brands his clients have made successful for years and years. I was so drawn to the joy he feels when talking about his collection.
Check out today’s Game Plan — A Passion for Collecting Enhances Business.
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Opted to do morning meditation based on whatever card I picked out of my deck of Abraham cards today. And so:
Life is always in motion, so I cannot be “stuck.”
Seriously good pick for right now. Great way to start the day.
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It cost not a red cent for me to reconnect with the lush and mesmerizing work of Claude Monet at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City this week. Now there’s a juxtaposition of oil and water that didn’t make my stomach turn.
Quite the contrary.
Read the rest of today’s Game Plan: A Beautiful Breather from the Grind.
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After catching response to various forms of giving in the news, been pondering the idea of whether it’s OK that doing good deeds makes us feel good. Is that selfish? Is selfish OK sometimes?
Hmmmmm. Seems like a no-brainer.
See what you think in today’s Game Plan, The Selfishness of Good Deeds.
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Added a little Betsey Johnson to my life today. Yeeha. New Nordstrom Rack in Union Square was a fun little stop in a day of art (Monet at the Gagosian Gallery) and shopping. Couldn’t believe my find – a nicely fitted black patent leather jacket featuring silver hardware with, of course, signature Betsey Johnson heart-shaped buttons.
“Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life, drawing attention to her beauty and specialness, her moods and movements, her dreams and fantasies.” –Betsey Johnson
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It’s been tough to stay informed lately without getting angst-ridden in the process. So I suppose that’s where today’s Game Plan was born. Sometimes it feels so darned good to be sarcastic.
With a bit of women in politics, the BP spill, the World Cup, Abby Sunderland, a mosque at Ground Zero all mixed together, we have Life Through Dark-Colored Glasses.
Feel free to add your own rants.
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The gorgeous waterfront promenade along the Hudson River is such a part of life here in Hoboken, at least for some of us who are naturally drawn to water and a spectacular view. Tonight after my coaching sessions were finished I wandered down there to catch the scene at dusk.
Well, I could not have ordered up a more awe-inspiring scene. With a gray, cloudy sky as the backdrop, suddenly the entire island of Manhattan was an orange-y adobe color. Couldn’t believe my eyes. It was reflecting off windows. Didn’t even stop long enough to Tweet about it because I just wanted to be with it.
Thank you, Mother Nature.
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After heading over to Manhattan’s Bryant Park with a friend to catch Samantha Bee talking about her new book of essays, I bought a copy (called I Know I Am, But What Are You?) and naturally had some thoughts. Bee has always intrigued me on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and I was curious about what makes her tick.
Today’s Game Plan is my take on what the book offers in the area of How to Be Unintentionally Inspiring.
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On this June 16, Bloomsday, a few of my favorite quotes from James Joyce’s Ulysses:
~ The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
~ The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant’s heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.
~ He was eying her as a snake eyes its prey. Her woman’s instinct told her that she had raised the devil in him and at the thought a burning scarlet swept from throat to brow till the lovely contour of her face became a glorious rose.
~ His dark eyes fixed themselves on her again, drinking in her every contour, literally worshipping at her shrine.
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When you’re a life coach, occasional snide comments and quizzical looks come with the territory in the media and in conversation. So it was with great joy that I saw the term used so positively when former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden died last week.
What we as life coaches can learn from that in today’s Game Plan: Lessons from the Legendary John Wooden.
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