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Bad Boys: You’re Losing Your Memory

July 21, 2006 by Liz 17 Comments

What Was I Going to Say?

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I’m ready to write something and as I sit at the keys, it’s gone. It was a spectacular idea. I know it was. Damn. It’s the second time this week, or is it the third? Suddenly I’m forgetting things — things that I’ve never forgotten before.

I used to be known for this memory of mine. Some folks even steered clear of it, feared it. They knew it could track details for decades and offer them back at lightning speed. Now what? A brain of mush has moved in where the razor sharp memory was. . . .

-Stop-

That’s the voice of a Bad Boy of Business. Bad Boys are negative messages, bad tape recordings, in our heads. Bad boys are ideas that we tell ourselves that undercut our success and productivity.

The bad boy here is “You’re losing you’re memory.”

What’s happening? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business Life, Motivation, Outside the Box, Successful Blog Tagged With: bad-boys-of-business, bc, blog-promotion, job-performance, personal-branding, Productivity, success, writers-block, writing-problems

Bad Boys: You’re a Fraud, a Fake, a Phony

July 14, 2006 by Liz 13 Comments

New Job, New Career, Finally On Your Own

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We land a new position, change careers, or finally take the plunge and start that business of our own that we’ve always thought about and for the first few weeks, few months we’re sailing. Enthusiastic beginner they call it. Even though we’re not beginners. It’s the newness. Everything’s shiny. Then, it’s not.

A Bad Boy roars into our thnking. Bad Boys are negative messages, bad tape recordings, in our heads. They’re things we tell ourselves that undercut our success and productivity.

The bad boy here is “You’re a Fraud, a Fake, a Phony.”

Sound outrageous? I’ve seen it happen. I’ve predicted it. I’ve even done it myself. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business Life, Motivation, Outside the Box, Successful Blog Tagged With: bad-boys-of-business, bc, blog-promotion, job-performance, personal-branding, Productivity, success, writers-block, writing-problems

Bad Boys of Business: That’s Not “Real” Work

July 13, 2006 by Liz 3 Comments

It’s a Bad Boys Convention

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Look who came riding in behind the Bad Boys of Writing. It’s the Bad Boys of Business. They’re just as seductive as their counterparts, and like their writing friends, they do damage. Get these con guys in your head and they can blow your productivity.

Meet their point man, Bad Boy 1: That’s Not Real Work. You’re wasting time.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Business Life, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Personal Branding, Productivity, Successful Blog Tagged With: bad-boys-of-business, bc, blog-promotion, customer-relationships, personal-branding, Productivity

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