Club Biscotti

One of the most important things that I have learned as an entrepreneur is how to handle requests from potential and current clients without losing my mind. What I mean is that when I was starting out I would go nuts every time a client wanted something. Every email and phone message felt like a crisis situation that had to be handled ASAP. The reality of the situation, however, is that my business is fitness. There are no fitness emergencies. Even if your business does handle certain types of emergencies it is valuable to know how to handle those requests that fall outside of the emergency realm. Understand that it is OK to say no. It is OK to say no to working on a weekend or even a week night. It is OK to say no to breaking your policies even though you make them up. You had good reasons for setting your policies the way that they are. Unless you feel that they are in need of modification do not change them every time a client asks you to. It's OK to say no to requests that ...

I've been on Facebook for about three years now. When you first sign up there's a small learning curve but, you quickly learn to navigate and begin searching for friends. Maybe you got invited on to Facebook by someone. So, that's a nice start. Before long the true range of the Facebook experience begins to emerge. The friend requests from all sorts of people from your past begin to arrive. Some of these people you remember dearly and are thrilled to be in touch with again. Some of them are people you hoped had disappeared forever. Old flames find you. People you were once friends with who married your old flames find you. It's a roller coaster of emotions and blasts from the past that blow your mind. Sometimes you find an old friend that you lost touch with long ago. You're so excited that this person is part of your life again. Then you come to realize that they've moved on and there's not really a space for you in their life anymore. You stay friends ...

Recently I've been receiving information about a product called Mind Movies. They just ran a big promotion for the release of the new version of the product, Mind Movies 2.0. It sounds like a great product and I do think that these personalized movies can be an excellent tool for helping you focus on and attach emotional drive to your goals which in turn helps you get what you want. Mind Movies help us generate emotion and focus on the things that we want. Whether we're talking expensive toys, a nice house, achievement of some goal like a promotion or weight loss, or improving our relationships the principle is the same. As I was watching the promotional videos and learning about the features of the software, I realized that I had seen a video editor somewhere on my Windows 7 PC. I dug around to find Cyberlink. Turns out that software I already own does pretty much the same thing as the Mind Movies software. So, why choose one over the other? First of all, one of the mai...

Watched this week's episode and enjoyed it but was really irked by a number of things. This week we took the breakthrough journey with a couple who was facing serious financial troubles and possible divorce. First of all, I don't know why the wife was so proud of her husband for going 5.6G. I just don't see the value there. It didn't take any skill or intelligence. It wasn't a trial that life had thrown at him that he had to overcome or a problem that he solved. He chose to get into this plane and go really fast and he lived. So, what? Does this experience translate into change in his life in some way? Maybe. I sort of doubt it though. I'd be very surprised if any real, lasting change comes from his little plane ride. Then there was a comment the husband made to Tony as they were being evaluated by the people they had interacted with at the homeless shelter. They sat in front of a group of about 20 people to tell them what they had learned during their week ...

After hearing many times about this book I finally decided it was worth a closer look. The idea is that you can get rich by following the scientific procedure to do so. Anyone who follows the instructions in this book will certainly get rich. Sounds good to me. So, I decided it was worth reading through the 80 or so pages to see what this was all about. At the end of it all I'm not sure there was much in the way of a scientific approach presented. However, there was a framework for steps to take toward getting rich. As intangible as they may be they had a ring of truth to them. The following is my summary of what I like to think of as not so much a science but a recipe for getting rich. There is a formless substance or "thinking" stuff that is everywhere and in all things throughout the Universe. The impression of thought upon the formless substance can cause what is thought about to manifest. In order to impress thought upon the formless substance you must come f...

You can be happy because happiness is a choice. You choose your mood all day every day in reaction to every situation, every sensory input, every change in blood sugar levels or adrenaline or caffeine . Maybe you can't choose your initial gut reaction to something. Sometimes something catches you off guard and the feelings are just there, raw and unedited. After that initial moment however, as you become conscious of your emotional state, you have a choice. Try it. In any given moment ask yourself, how do I feel? Do I feel good or bad? That's it. Good or bad. Don't break it down don't analyze it beyond those two categories. If the feeling is bad, then think of something you like, something you enjoy, a joke, a song anything and focus on it. If you really focus on this positive thing, this thing you enjoy, then very soon you will begin to feel good. This may be difficult at first. For one thing most of us are used to feeling our feelings not choosing them. We believ...