From the Masters

An excerpt from Sales Motivation by Todd Duncan  Success is a daily decision! Show me a successful person and I will show you someone who chooses the course of success over and over in their life. I will show you a person who is full of passion, excitement, courage, conviction, focus, positivity and enthusiasm. Successful…

An excerpt from The Power of Kindness by Mac Anderson. Charles Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal…

An excerpt from You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School by Mac Anderson Not long ago, a friend sent me the story of “Old Warwick.” It brought a smile to my face, and I think it shares a wonderful lesson for every leader to learn. A man was lost while driving through the country.…

An excerpt from Customer Love by Mac Anderson. The following story was told by my friend Phillip Van Hooser, in his book titled: Willie’s Way. I really like it and hope you will too. The conversation was pleasant. Earlier in the day I had presented a service professionalism training program for the Georgia Club Managers’…

An excerpt from The Dash by Linda Ellis and Mac Anderson. Knowing yourself, finding your true purpose in life, is the essence of true and real. “You have to be, before you do, to have lasting inner peace.” In other words, making a living is not the same as making a life. Find what makes your…

An excerpt from Leading with Passion by John J. Murphy Are you a disciple of action? When it comes to walking your talk, do you walk with responsibility and accountability? Do you execute your intentions with attention? Leading with discipline requires motivation and effort. It is easy to say we are going to do something. It…

An excerpt from The Push by David McNally and Mac Anderson In his commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of Apple Computer and founder of Pixar Studios, shared how getting fired from the company he started brought him to a new creative level: I was lucky-I found what…

An excerpt from The Simple Truths of Selling by Todd Duncan It’s usually the first thing to come up. “How much will it cost me?” asks the customer. We then dodge the question to avoid running them off before we have a chance to explain the value of the product. Sure, there are those who…

An excerpt from Learning to Dance in the Rain by Mac Anderson Behavioral scientists tell us that if we do something consistently for 21 days, it becomes a habit. That’s good news if you’re interested in bringing more gratitude into your life. Here are some simple ways to build your gratitude muscles: Before you go to…

An excerpt from Golf Quotes:  Great Quotes About a Great Game! by Joe Vanek. “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” ~Arnold Palmer To learn…

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