Larry Easto's (larry_easto) Blog

With my last post, I achieved the magic level of 100,000 points as an ActiveRain blogger. This seems appropriate, given yesterday's two posts about achievement and the nature of my earlier post today. (In case you are wondering, the timing of yesterday's posts was not a coincidence.) This post wi...

About three weeks ago...on Dec 3 to be exact...I started 'a series 14 posts about marketing planning information that will help you achieve better marketing results in 2010.' As often happens in writing projects...regardless of size...this process modified itself during its implementation. Instea...

Your definition of achievement defines the results that you would like to bring about through your actions. Typically, dictionaries define achievement as 'an accomplishment attained by effort'. Similarly, synonyms for word 'achieve' include: consummate complete execute realize reach win There is ...

In today's sometimes confusing world, many people use short forms...or labels...as a way of managing these complexities. In most cases this involves identifying a person's specific behavior pattern...and labeling that person with the behavior. For example, a person who has achieved her career goa...

1. Goals That Reflect Your Values Success means achieving two sets of inter-connected ...personal and business. Whatever your business or market, you will face competition. Finding and serving clients is hard, time-consuming work. Although it appears that you may face daunting odds in building a ...

When promoting their services, most people focus on their own skills and abilities. Their advertising is self-promotional, touting how good they are at what they do. This approach is based on the assumption that with enough advertising, sooner or later prospective clients will believe these promo...

On Wednesday evening, I saw a an interview with a time management authority. There were a number of interesting factors abut this interview...not the least of which was that I had planned a blog post for yesterday dealing with the same topic. Planning Spontaneous Time (??) The main thrust of her ...

 A Snapshot In Time Regardless of when you do...or did...your niche market research, it is little more than a snapshot of your market segment at that point in time. However, as thorough and effective as your research is it cannot accurately forecast what would or will take place after the researc...

Blocks of Time: A True Story Among the many things I learned in school, the most important...and longest lasting... lessons were not classroom based. Nor were they directly related to my courses. For the most part, they were lessons in living my life. This meant doing the things I wanted to do, b...

Taking responsibility for your actions...regardless of the results produced...allows you to continue to get better at everything that you do. Taking Responsibility For Your Actions That Produce Unsatisfactory Results In one respect, taking responsibility for your actions that generate disappointi...