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Persistence is a boring but necessary virtue. You might not think anything is changing in your career life or love life, but if you are persistent you will eventually see change. Remember! True failure only happens when you abandon your quest. Keep on questing!

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Living in the past is like driving forward while staring in the rear view mirror. Believing is seeing. Be an over-fright success story. One's actions convince louder than one's words. Make progress. Make new mistakes. All work and no play makes Jill want to reach for the Prozac. The purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life. It doesn't matter how fast you get there if you're heading in the wrong direction. If at first you don't succeed, you're doing something stupid. You're nobody until somebody hates you. Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off. To get where you need to go you must first see who you really are. Be a warrior, not a worrier. Be a winner, not a whiner. If the coyote had stopped to catch his breath, he might have caught the roadrunner. A pack of puppies led by a pitbull will always be feared more than a pack of pitbulls led by a puppy. Brainpower is as important as horsepower. Read, read, read! You should always pick a job for its passion value not cash-in value. Don't let a blame preoccupation ruin your occupation. It's always better to go for longterm greed over short term greed. A shortcut is often the longest distance between two points. Time is money...and time wasters are money wasters. Don't wait to make heaps and heaps of cash to have heaps and heaps of fun. Every member of the Fortune 500 Club could also be a member of the Misfortune 500 Club. Money doesn't bring you true happiness...but happiness can bring you true money. If you love what you do, the money will come. Whatever business you're in you're in the people business. Fail Faster. Succeed faster. Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off. Follow the fuscia brick road. Failure is in many ways like "fullure" - it is always full of lessons to be learned. Believe in a laughter life. Don't let your convictions become your restrictions. Invest in "Fresh Air Fun." Take a walk outside once a day. If you want your body to be smoking, you've got to stop smoking. Sometimes, all you gotta do is ask. Duh. Taking no action is an action. Duh. Happiness is not about what happens to you -- but about how you choose to respond to what happens. Comedy = tragedy + 3 months and/or 3 margaritas! Practice that tongue twister "NO" today. Take the fat out of your fate. Slim down your schedule to what matters. It's not just what you know...but what you do with what you know. The grass is greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's astroturf. When you grow - you often outgrow. The only constant is change. You are a human being, not a human was or a human will be. Self honesty is the only path to happiness. Sometimes we're "mad at" someone whom we should merely be "sad at." Be so proactive you're preactive. Fast doesn't always last. Love is a boomerang. What have you and give away is what you get back. Fear of commitment: it could happen to you...or someone you can't love. Saying difficult things now is better than fixing even more difficult problems later. It is better to have loved and lost - than to live with a psycho for the rest of your life. It is better to have loved and lost - and had some really amazing hot sex - than never to have lived and loved at all. A man is not a project. A man is a man. And a project is a project. It's better to have a short bad relationship than a long bad relationship. It's worth it to hold out for a soul mate and not settle for a cellmate. Assess breeds success. Turn all bad experiences into good inperiences - take them in fully, and change in a positive way.

Saturday, February 05, 2005

LIFE TIP: Look for Double Sunshine
this weekend!

I just discovered this cool flower called Double Sunshine. Damn, I like that name...far more than petunia. And it's far more poetic to call your loved one that, than, say, "My Petunia." Double Sunshine...it sounds like the feeling two people both get with each other when they know they both "get" each other. Hope this weekend forecasts lots of Double Sunshine for all of you!

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Friday, February 04, 2005

PSSST INSIDE INFO: New totally cool people who make me happy, dammit!

This has been a really especially happy-dammit-filled year so far ...thanks to some NEW, totally cool people who I just met -- either by email -- or in some NY stomping ground -- ALL of whom have totally cool websites I'd love to tell you about. I'm going to do this regularly...pick my TOP FIVE HAPPY THEY'RE ALIVE PEOPLE! First of all there's Sebastian Oddo with his very inspiring site . Also... Patricia Storms with her amazingly fun site . ..Next up Keris Stainton with her quirky site . Also, here in NY two very cool girls Nichelle with her alway's fresh and percolating site and Rachel with her mensa-babe site . ... If you have a site you'd think I'd swoon for/appreciate, please say hi by email (if you don't live in NY) -- or send over an espresso (if you do live in NY). Wishing you all a highly happy weekend, dammit...

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Wednesday, February 02, 2005

CAREER TIP: Success is 10 seconds away!

In today's busy, frenetic world, you’ve got basically 10 seconds to sell yourself to a new client via an introduction on the phone ... or a new consumer via your packaging in the store ... or your website. Don’t dial that phone or go to the printers or create that webpage until you know your short, powerful 1-3 sentence unique tagline pitch. After you’ve announced yourself with your unique tagline pitch, keep the rest of your conversation and/or your packaging copy short and to the point. Less is indeed more. For example, I'm stopping right n --

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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

LIFE TIP: Be an optimist with an umbrella.

No matter how fantastic you may be and things are going, this universe has a bizarre sense of humor. At some point it will thrust a “surprise test” upon you. Whenever this surprise test pops up, you, like the universe, must have a sense of humor. You must immediately laugh and tell yourself: “Okay. I get it. THIS is the part where the surprise test problem comes in.” Then you must immediately get into “problemmeister” mode and decide to view this problem as a fun game the universe is playing with you to test your creative mettle. In summary: You must accept ebb and flow. There’s no such thing as constant flow.

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Monday, January 31, 2005

CAREER TIP:
Don't just wake up smelling the coffee.
Go to sleep sipping the red wine.

Yes... yes, it's important to always use your morning coffee time as your Decision Center ... to decide what you specifically plan to accomplish that day…so you don’t just haphazardly go about your day in a pell mell fashion. Pell mell = career hell. But ... just as importantly.... always be sure to use your evening glass of wine to view your day as being as half full as possible. Appreciate whatever you did to move your career forward. In summary: You must not only make time to create a plan, you must make time to appreciate how well you followed your plan.

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Sunday, January 30, 2005

INSIDE INFO: My LA trip in final analysis was...

My LA trip in final analysis was...REALLY GREAT! Without revealing too much inside info.... I have interest in a few of my TV projects! Now I must get to work and do some work to totally sell it through! I'll be back in the blog business this week... As always if you have any questions or want to share your tales of glory (or fury!) please contact me at info@notsalmon.com! And if you want a free groovy tee-shirt or totebag with one of my naughty-ish "new edgy" motivational headlines on the front... just sign up 10 loved ones to my newsletter! SIGN UP 20 PEOPLE AND I'LL GIVE YOU A FREE HOUR OF COACHING! SIGN UP 100 PEOPLE AND I'LL HIRE YOU FULLTIME, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE, DAMMIT! Anyhooha, see you back here tomorrow morning! Off to read the NYTimes and drink too much coffee!

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