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 Issue 93                                        November 2015
Welcome! If you enjoyed last month you'll be craaaaazy about this month!
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IN THIS ISSUE:
MUSINGS FROM MIKKI
I didn't need Halloween when I was having my own scary experiences this month!  I did 10 speeches in 8 cities and was on 6 planes in 2 weeks. If you've read my Facebook page you're as dizzy as I am.
I'm tired, but grateful and blessed, not only for the work I get to do but the friends I get to spend time with all over the country.
Had dinner with my UK buddy and Vistage speaker John Cremer.
John Cremer
Flew to Napa for a speech and got to spend time with very dear friends from CT, The Baums.
The Baums

Then off to Sedona to Amara Resort to work and play with Canadian TEC Chair, Todd Millar and wife Barb, very special people in my life.
Todd Millar

Continuing on to the gorgeous Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA with ???????.
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Then on to Dallas, the city where they love gals with big hair and big jewelry! And had a wonderful dinner with Ken Stibler
Ken Stibler
before speaking to 100 of his peeps the next day.
A quick stop at home where I was honored to have a dessert named after me at La Stanza at Labriola Cafe
Rich Labriola









In La Jolla I stayed at La Valencia Hotel (gorgeous hotel and city!) then went to Del Mar, San Diego, and spoke at Vistage Headquarters and had time to share meals with some of my Vistage folks
Jen Pritchard
Steve Dobbins
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Glenn Jeffries
Amy Sandler












Finished up in Costa Mesa with Maryam Malei's delightful Vistage group
Maryam's Vistage group
and had time for dinner with my BFF Kat Coleman who left Chicago for the beauty (and weather) of CA.
Kat Coleman




I had three gigs in KY where I dropped major hints that I want to sip a mint julep in Millionaire's Row at the Kentucky Derby while wearing an outrageously large hat. Great timing, considering I did my first TED talk on creating an experience list (not a bucket list) and that's one of the items on mine. 
I don't have the link yet for the Ted talk but will publish it when I do.

Happy Thanksgiving all! 
I am thankful for this life I lead and the people in it...that includes YOU.

These are left over:

Randy Fields
Randy Fields
Lavinia and Tamilee


I LOVE THIS BOOK!
The 7 Keys to Unlock Your Full Potential
by C. James Jensen

I love that this book draws upon traditional wisdom and contemporary research to bring us insight into the relationship between the subconscious and conscious mind. This book can help you take charge of your life in ways that would produce amazing positive improvements.
This is  a book that illustrates ways to explore your soul in the most profound manner.  The chapter on enlightenment alone can take you to a new level of consciousness. 
The steps in this book are the tools you need to implement principles to change your life and energize you in the process.
As my recent TEDx talk was about experiences, I was particularly aware of how this book took me on a quest to learn why and how experiences happen.

Now go get this book!


CREATIVE CAPTIONS
Airplane

Plane Smart
(Alternative to traditional private air transportation)

Mikki in Shoe
SHOE-BE-DOO
Yummy! On all levels!
WONDERFUL WEBSITES
eatfeastly.com
Unique meals hosted city-wide.
Food with a story.
Discover the best pop-ups and trending chefs around you.

MIKKI MOUTH
Things I Wish I'd Said and Some I Did Say!
Mikki Mouth - 2 books
Enjoy a quote each month from my book - some funny, some poignant, some professional, some just darn cute!
 
"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
                                      ~W.T. Purkiser


  
   
 
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PERPLEXING PONDERANCES


If you asked a librarian where the books on self-help were would they tell you, or would that defeat the purpose? 

SOCIAL MEDIA GURU GUY 
by Dave Nelsen 

Dave's formal title is President, Dialog Consulting Group. From 2005 to 2009 he was CEO of TalkShoe, a social media company now serving more than one million monthly listeners...and the fabulous company I use to produce my monthly teleseminars.     

The Long, Slow Death of the Best Free Tool Ever...
and A Replacement
 
Author Peter Senge once observed that the only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. If this is true, then you can't find a more valuable free tool than Google Alerts.
With Google Alerts, you can specify a word or phrase for Google to monitor and whenever they see it, they send you an email with a link to the source. Unlike with a Google search, once established an alert brings you breaking news and continues to run forever, or so we thought.
Think about the value of Google altering you to what your competitors just announced. What if your salespeople could get alerts about their customers and prospects? What if you could get alerts about your partners, your key suppliers, your employees? What if you could see each new RFP (request for proposal) in your industry as it hit the wire? Maybe your business could "adapt more quickly."
Unfortunately, the last Google Alert I received was 10 months ago. My first question was, "Is it just me?" so I Googled the question, "Is Google Alerts dying?" and found articles by Mashable, ComputerWorld, and BuzzFeed (inappropriately named when reporting news like this).
Alas, how are we to get timely reports about competitors, customers, and partners now? How will we adapt most quickly?
More Googling revealed a possible replacement: www.Mention.com. While it apparently works exactly like Google Alerts, it costs roughly $8.00 per month, per alert. Whoa. While I'm sure it's worth 100-times that amount, I can't bring myself to pay for something that's been free for the last decade.
And then it hit me. The answer is (drum roll please): Google! It's just going to take a tiny bit more work.
Go to www.google.com/advanced_search. In the first field, you can place your desired phrase. But it's the ninth field that's the magic one: Last Update. You can set that to "past 24 hours" and see what's just happened. If you prefer, try "past week" or past month" instead. If the search gives you valuable results, bookmark it! Then you can rerun it at regular intervals (the "tiny bit more work" mentioned above).
You get the idea. Or if you don't, all the instructions are on the right side of the page at www.Google.com/advanced_search.
All is right with the world again.


You can find more formal details here: 
To contact Dave directly:
LIFE LESSONS...FUNNY, FIT John Godoy
OR FABULOUS
by John Godoy
 
John Godoy is a healthy lifestyle expert. Through personal coaching, training and healthy lifestyle seminars, John guides clients in developing and sticking to the healthy habits necessary to tap their bodies enormous energy reserves - enriching their personal and
professional lives.


 
To get more information and great tips visit John's website: www.johngodoylifestyle.com
Little girl chef
THE HAPPY COOKER
That was the name of one of my businesses and oh, come on,
I know guys cook, too.

Baked Mini Pumpkin Pots 

4 mini pumpkins (about 1 pound each)
4 ounces sweet or hot bulk sausage
5 eggs
4 pieces stale bread (any nonsweet kind), cut into cubes
1 tablespoon minced fresh sage, or 1 teaspoon dried
1 tablespoon minced Italian parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
4 teaspoons cr�me fra�che (optional)
 
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Slice the top quarter off each pumpkin and remove the seeds and stringy bits.
  2. In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, saut� the sausage for 3 to 4 minutes, until cooked through. Drain off any rendered fat and set aside.
  3. Whisk 1 of the eggs, and toss it in a large bowl with the sausage, bread cubes, sage, parsley, salt, and pepper until well combined.
  4. Fill each pumpkin with the stuffing mixture to a little less than 1 inch from the top, and place it on the prepared sheet. Bake for 40 minutes, until the pumpkins have soft- ened. Remove the pan from the oven and use a spoon to compress the stuffing a little. Pour 1 of the remaining 4 eggs into each pumpkin. Lightly cover the pumpkins with a sheet of aluminum foil. Increase the heat to 400 degrees and return the sheet to the oven.
  5. Bake for another 10 minutes, until the eggs are just set.
  6. Serve hot, topped with about a teaspoon of cr�me fra�che and more salt and pepper to taste.
MikkiLeaks by Phil Liebman
  Classy-fide information available on a need-to-know basis...
that YOU need to know!

We are on high alert. Everyone is looking for "The Rainmaker."
 
The problem is that we don't know what the problem is. And until we do - we cannot solve it. We may never find The Rainmaker. -Source redacted (Classified Information).
With my ear to the wires I've been able to decipher the latest classified chatter on worldwide intelligence channels. Our future is truly at stake. The forces of good are deeply concerned about what happens when the forces of evil find The Rainmaker before we do. The conundrum is that we need a rainmaker to find The Rainmaker. And the task of quickly developing new competent rainmakers of our own to compete with the best of the best seems unimaginable.
On the geopolitical spectrum the race to capture The Rainmaker pits the United States against China and Russia. It trumps the military threats in The Ukraine and Syria and places even rogue nations on equal footings with the world's superpowers. Rainmakers can emerge anywhere, yet their powers are becoming scarce and elusive in the modern world. It's a question of who will design the future. Rainmakers are the difference makers.They are the people that "make things happen."
The aspiring presidential candidates all claim to be rainmakers, promising it will rain change, prosperity or freedom, or that they will stop the flood of illegal immigrants or the reign of terror by enemies of the state. Yet they too depend on their rainmakers to bring to them a flood of campaign contributions and voters.
It is the rainmakers who win elections. Just look at the political strategists credited for winning the election for President George H. Bush, Lee Atwater and his prot�g�, Carl Rove. They were both ruthless in making things happen, never allowing for silly, insignificant things like the truth (or even lives at stake) to get in their way.  Atwater once famously quipped, "perception is reality," borrowing from the sage wisdom of Marcus Aurelius who wrote: "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." And taking the advice of the 19th century author Charles Spurgeon, who noted, "A lie will travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
As a business leader you rely on rainmakers to open markets and close sales. The most elusive and valuable rainmaker is the one who can innovate solutions to problems that no one else in the world has figured out, or even identified to be a problem at all. Visionary leaders can be rainmakers, not simply by their vision but by having that vision energize the imaginations of highly competent people who employ the sacred alchemy of turning thought into action and action into powerful results. Thoughts have no real energy until they are transformed into accomplishments.
Rainmakers cannot easily be captured because whatever they want to happen,  or not happen, is generally what does happen. The task for today's leaders is to create the rainmakers we will need tomorrow, to equip the people who will lead us into the future with the ability to not only think, but to be able to engineer and manufacture a better, safer and more sustainable future.
So I leave you with this one question: what are you doing to make the heroes we need, the ones that will make it rain for your organization and for the betterment of the society?
It's back to the chatter on the wires... so, as long as my cover isn't blown, I can report back to you again next month.

Phil Liebman is a Vistage Group Chair, a Fellow at the Thayer Institute for Leadership Virtuosity and the Founder of the BullFrog Group - helping CEOs become better leaders. You can reach him by email at [email protected] - or by phone at 845.262.8611
Laughing baby
HE WHO LAUGHS...LASTS!



What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
                                        ~Erma Bombeck

                                                                                                          
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MIKKI'S MANTRA

INSPIRATION

CONSCIOUS KINDNESS
Host a member of the military for Thanksgiving dinner Thanksgiving
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MIKKI WILLIAMS, CSP, CPAE
Mikki Williams earned the dual designations of CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) and CPAE (Council of Peers Award for Excellence) Speaker Hall of Fame from The National Speakers Association, an achievement attained by fewer than 1% of all professional speakers. She specializes in business dynamics and human potential. She has been named one of the top speakers in the country by Meetings and Convention Magazine along with Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Colin Powell, Lou Holtz and Mike Ditka. Mikki is also one of the top tier speaker resources for Vistage International, the world's leading executive organization, and Group Chair of two of their peer advisory boards in Chicago.
Her company Mikki Williams Unltd. produces Speakers Schools in Chicago, a monthly ezine: Hair She Is...! and a blog: Mikki Williams' Blah Blah...Blog. She is sought after for business, life and presentation skills coaching through her firm Coaching, etc... She also facilitates The Mikki Mouth Club, an annual subscription-based presentation skills coaching membership with three distinct divisions...Speaker Source, Accountability Academy and Keynote Kamp. If you need other speakers, she can book you the best through her Outrageous Orators...speakers who rock, an uncommon speakers bureau.

 

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