You can access the full Article from Inc by John Nemo When it comes to LinkedIn, you must build a profile that talks about what your clients want, and then shows them how working with you helps them get it. Here's the big problem with that: Your ideal clients, your ideal prospects and your ideal customers could care less about you! Instead, they are far more concerned with themselves - with solving their most pressing professional problems and pain points. To really make yourself appealing on LinkedIn, you must create what I call a "client-facing" profile.

‎ Great 2014 article from Inc.com The causes of procrastination are legion. Some blame perfectionism or fear of failure, others an inability to prioritize, another camp says simple disorganization causes it to miss deadlines, while still others cite a failure of will. There's probably a grain of truth to each of these potential explanations depending on the individual and situation, but according to a recent Atlantic article, we often overlook another common culprit--our mood. In "The Procrastination Doom Loom," Derek Thompson outlines new research showing how our poor understanding and regulation of our emotions is frequently the driver of a tendency to delay tasks. 'But I'm just not in the right mood!' In the last few years, he reports, "scientists have begun to think that procrastination might have less to do with time than emotion. Procrastination 'really has nothing to do with time-management,'" Thompson quotes Joseph Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University, as saying. How do our moods affect our ability to get stuff done? Apparently, we often delay tasks because of the mistaken belief that the mood to accomplish whatever it is we need to do is going to magically strike us at some later time. "Ferrari and others think procrastination happens for two basic reasons: (1) We delay action because we feel like we're in the wrong mood to complete a task, and (2) We assume that our mood will change in the near future." The result is that we say things to ourselves like, "I'm too hectic on Mondays to really concentrate on thinking about strategy. I'll do it later in the week." Or "I'm too tired now to write that marketing email. I'll have a clearer head tomorrow morning." But when tomorrow morning or later in the week rolls

‎It's the end of 2016, a slice of time we will never get back. What did you commit to accomplish at the beginning of 2016? What did you see yourself doing and/or becoming? Have you accomplished what you intended? Vision is a fool-proof way to shape the future of your business and life. I've used a vision board to launch my business 10 years ago. It helped me define my ideal client, get married and start a family. Vision doesn't require capital, investors, or employees. It only cost you time and the courage to articulate your dreams and aspirations. Research backs up the power of visualization. A study by TD Banks surveyed more than 1,100 people and 500 small business owners and discovered that "visualization practices" such as vision boards and simply a collection of images and photos related to a goal were highly effective. 67 percent of those surveyed believed the images of their goals will improve the odds of achieving them. If you are feeling overwhelmed and less than energized about 2017, vision is the single most important step to fast-track your success. Vision gives you clarity, direction, and resolve to see an idea transform into reality. The process of discovering your vision need not be overwhelming. Here are a few simple steps to help you get a head start on creating your vision for 2017 and beyond. 1. Unplug and rest - Less than six hours a night of sleep can leave you cognitively impaired. Sleep is an essential performance enhancer. Sleep in, take a nap, or schedule a mini vacation and recognize sleep as essential to visioning. Disconnect from social media and reconnect with silence. Giving your body and mind the opportunity to recharge. 2. Give yourself space -

The Standard Bank advert says it plainly: Fly ; If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. If you can't crawl, do anything as long as you are moving.

What if I were to tell you that you could increase the odds that your kids will achieve great successin life--maybe greater success than you've had--simply by making a small change in how youpraise them and talk about achievement? It turns out, you can. What's more, this change flies in the face of almost everything we've been told by so-called experts about raising successful kids--at least for the past 15 years or more. It's all about how we praise our kids for their accomplishments. An emerging and exciting body of research on the subject suggests several key things we might not have realized otherwise: Praising kids merely for their innate abilities, such as their intelligence, actually makes it less likely that they'll grow up to enjoy learning and to excel. Praising kids instead for the strategies and processes they develop to solve problems--even when they don't fully succeed--makes them more likely to try harder and ultimately achieve. And--perhaps the kicker--the effects of these praise strategies can be quantified even when we're talking about children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. (So once again, my 15-month-old daughter will get the benefit of something I've learned while writing for Inc.!) As you might imagine, this would mean that the so-called experts who told us to praise our kids endlessly (part of the "everyone gets a participation trophy" movement) were dead wrong. (I've written a lot this subject at Inc. and put together a free e-book: How to Raise Successful Kids.) How does it all work? We'll talk below about two studies involving school-age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University. First, however, let's examine the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset,