Motivation on the Run

The return to San Leon was fairly uneventful, but I wanted everyone to know we arrived safe and sound. The place is a little worse for the wear, but in good shape considering Louisiana and others. The brunt of the storm missed Galveston County and ended up making landfall east a little over 100 miles [...]

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Dave Kahle give some great insight to the problem of managers not giving praise more often to their people. The 80/20 rule is probably correct when separating the fully self-motivated and those that need a little nudge. This would match with my personal experience, also.
Selling Power | Incentives Newsletter
Yet, for some reason, many managers are [...]

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I wanted to let everyone know that Motivation on the Run is now listed on the iTunes music store. I told you last week that the iTunes tags were finally working and that it was re-submitted and this morning I was looking at the stats for the site and the numbers had taken a big [...]

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 Motivation16 [16:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Motivation on the Run for real. This podcast is recorded in the remote northern studio in San Marcos, Texas. I discuss the motivating factors involved in almost 3 million people deciding to evacuate South Texas. WOW! is all that can be said.
By the time you get this the Redhead and I should be back in [...]

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If I were, this would be a horse to watch, Motivational. I told you that motivation was for more than sales people.
Buckette in the Books
Motivational and Pacific Centerfold won today’s $52,000 divisions of the Buckette for three-year-old trotting fillies at the Delaware County Fair in Ohio.
In the first division, Race 6 on today’s afternoon card, [...]

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I think that what gets me the most is that management seems to be surprised by these results. As I have said before, management and managees do not seem to communicate very well. Positive motivation, with reasonable expectations, positive reinforcements and follow through will work. Time and time again…
What do I mean by reasonable expectations? [...]

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Here is a link to a goal setting exercise from Selling Power magazine. I’m not sure I agree with the entire article, but the purpose for posting is to get you thinking about the process of goal setting and what is involved in it. Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.sellingpower.com/html_newsletter/motivation/article.asp?id=2144&lid=SP19503
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The redhead and I are in San Marcus because of Hurricane Rita. I did mention on the last podcast that it could come our way and sure enough.
Galveston County put the entire county under volunteer evacuation on Tuesday with mandatory coming Wednesday at 6:00 pm for us and ending with League City at noon on [...]

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This is the podcast that I was going to record last week about a visit to a local company and my visit with their IT guy. They are doing some interesting things with technology and I touched on the main project that was completed recently.
I have not completely reviewed this recording because of Hurricane [...]

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I think that every podcaster secretly dreams of bigger and better things. Of their podcasts catching on and sitting at the top of every download list, bandwidth charges be hanged. The dream continues, that if the podcast is that successful, a living could be made from doing something that is enjoyable. How will money be [...]

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