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Welcome! If you enjoyed last month you'll be craaaaazy about this month!
The purpose of this ezine is inspiration, humor, business, personal and just plain fun: aka the don't-take-yourself-so-seriously ezine.
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August!! Here's the great news, I did one trip and took the rest of the summer at home. I am a happy camper:-) In between busy and fun as ever, I got to lunch with some of my favorite folks. Lisa Resnick, former client now great friend dining al fresco at Maple and Ash.  Having a great biz-storming power lunch with a power guy, Mike Maddock, extraordinary speaker, entrepreneur, and all around great guy at Fig and Olive . Off to NSA (National Speakers Association) international annual convention in 114 degree Phoenix... Seriously! It was the first time I was not presenting because I wanted to spend time with my tribe of coaching clients...  Bob Roitblat, Jill Belconis, Lee Tkachuk, Mike Campion, all first timers. Got to see so many NSA pals, peers and be inspired by the talent that always shows up. Steve Shapiro, author, speaker and convention Chair (I'm actually featured in his first book, Goal Free Living; How to Have the Lif e You Want.)
It's always a pleasure to hug my bud', Harvey Mackay, of "Swim With the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive" book fame. I "bought" Harvey in an auction over a decade ago and we have remained great friends.
I had a  blast with the Power Women of NSA at the PJ p arty  and then gave a 7am "fireside chat" about Vistage membership, Chairing and speaking because we do not have enough women. I did this again for Black NSA because we don't have enough diversity either.  After the convention, I headed to San Diego for three Vistage talks and my "You've Got Personnel-ity" speech for Batory Foods with Regional Sales Manager, Dan Riesenberg at The Ranch in Laguna Beach.
Kat Coleman, BFF from Chicago, now living in Long Beach came over to Costa Mesa so we could catch up over dinner. 
Next, I headed to Asheville, NC to speak and stayed at the gorgeous Biltmore Estates. I stopped off for lunch with Purple Heart Homes , CEO John Gallina, Speaker School grad' and Charli.  Topped off the month with my first ever Chicago Italian Beef sandwich,  and the best of everything was seeing my Babs again...and again...and again! 
It was just incredible...
And how was your month?
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Essentialism
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Essentialism is more than a time management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter. For me, it empowered me to reclaim control of my own choices about where I spend my time and energy instead of giving others permission to choose for me. In essence, the book is about living by design, not by default, something I have always embraced. I loved his quote that "the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many".
NOW GO GET THIS BOOK!
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Femme Fitale
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 SHOE-BE-DOO |
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My First Pair of Louboutins
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A journaling app to record life as you live it,
from once-in-a-lifetime events to everyday moments.
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MIKKI MOUTH Things I Wish I'd Said and Some I Did Say!
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Enjoy a quote each month from my book - some funny, some poignant, some professional, some just darn cute!
We are made wise not by the recollections of our past, but the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw
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 QUIRKY QUESTIONS |
If you could be any age for a week,
what age would that be?
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 SOCIAL MEDIA GURU GUY by Dave Nelsen |
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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.
Somehow, I managed to write more than 50 columns for Mikki's newsletter without mentioning one of my favorite apps on the planet: LastPass.
Before I describe LastPass, here's what you need to know about passwords. 80% of the world's so called hacking is due to bad passwords! You should use long, complicated passwords and you should never use the same password twice. The most common password is '123456'. If your password is '123457' you're not a genius; others have thought of that one too. Keeping passwords in a Word or Excel doc named "My Passwords" might not be a best practice either.
But if you make every password 16+ characters long, always use letters, numbers, and special characters, and make every password unique, how will you remember all of them? You don't have to. LastPass will do it for you. Read entire article
You can find more formal details here:
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LIFE LESSONS...FUNNY, FIT  OR FABULOUS
by John Godoy
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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.
What if the food you put in your mouth today directly affected your personal and professional life in a dramatic way? What if it influenced whether or not you would be poor or rich? Whether or not you would achieve the personal and professional goals you set for yourself? What if the seemingly benign choice of what you eat today made a difference in the very course of your life?
I cannot stress enough that the foods that you eat will either fuel you or hinder you in your life - rarely are they neutral. They are the building blocks of your body and brain, and their quality will affect the proper functioning of both.
To eat healthy simply follow the - the 80/20 food rule.
Every time you eat, consume 80% of it in the form of real food. Real foods that are usually only one word in length, don't sound like a chemical equation, and your grandmother would recognize if you showed her. For the other 20% eat whatever you like within reason.
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MIKKIPEDIA
The encyclopedia of wacky definitions
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BABY SITTER: A teenager acting like an adult, while the adults are out acting like teenagers.
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 THE HAPPY COOKER That was the name of one of my businesses and oh, come on,
I know guys cook, too.
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Peach Lattice Pie with Bourbon Caramel
- 2 cups (400 g) granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup (170 g) unsalted butter
- 1 1/4 cups (295 g) heavy cream, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons bourbon
For the Peach Lattice Pie:
1 recipe Magpie Dough for Flaky Piecrust, chilled overnight
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- 2 pounds (907 g) ripe peaches, each peeled, halved, pitted, and cut into 8 wedges
- 1/2 cup (96 g) packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 cup (96 g) granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons finely ground instant tapioca (ground using a spice grinder)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon fine salt
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons sanding sugar or coarse raw sugar, for sprinkling
Click here to read the complete recipe (and the Magpie Dough recipe link)
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2016 guest columnist: CULTURE COLUMN
by Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky
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Culture of Influence: Part I
Influence Through Rational Persuasion
"Win by persuasion not by force." - Latin Proverb
Rational Persuasion is a tactic used to influence others, both inside and outside of our culture. It is characterized by the use of logical arguments with factual information to persuade others that a specific action will lead to a particular outcome. Leaders, whether formal or informal, who use rational persuasion well are effective at influencing others in a culture. Logical arguments tend to work best for people whose behavior is more influenced by thinking rather than emotion.
How do you actually use rational persuasion?
- Explain why an objective needs to be met: To get commitment for an objective, people want to know why it needs to be met and why it's important. Think about how you can make the objective into a Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-focused, Time-bound (SMART) goal.
Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky (Dr. Gustavo) is a speaker, author, consultant, and psychologist whose diverse background brings a unique and multidimensional perspective to his global clients. For the past 15 years, he has focused on engagements with corporate clients, and has worked with Global 1000 companies around the world, as well as with smaller, often family-run, businesses addressing a variety of topics, including corporate culture, emotional intelligence, anger management, and integrating multigenerational workforces.
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 HE WHO LAUGHS...LASTS! |
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You know you are getting older when Happy Hour is a nap.
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To book me or any of the other guest columnists like Dave Nelson, Gustavo Grodnitzky, John Godoy, simply contact us. For any or all your presentation needs on any topic at any price point, be it keynote, training, seminar, emcee, facilitator, moderator, concurrents (I just don't do floors or windows) I know many great speakers from my years with the National Speakers Association and Vistage International.
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"I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life."
~Dan Millman
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Mindfulness is simply about being mindful of what you're thinking and deciding where you choose to focus your attention. Ideally, one would choose to focus his or her attention towards compassion, loving-kindness, and optimism. Mindfulness is about deciding to look on the bright side and deciding to be kind to yourself and others. That's it.
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Speakers School with Mikki Williams,
CSP, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, TEDx Speaker
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Chief Strategy Officer
DigiPowers, Inc.
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MIKKI WILLIAMS, CSP, CPAE
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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 A TedX SPEAKER and one of the top tier speaker resources for Vistage International, the world's leading executive organization, and honored as their Speaker of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award winner as well as an award winning Group Chair of two of their peer advisory boards in Chicago.
Her company Mikki Williams Unltd. produces Speakers Schools all over the country, a monthly eZine: Hair She Is...! and a blog: Mikki Williams' Blah Blah...Blog. She is sought after as an Executive Speech Coach through her firm Coaching, etc... She also facilitates The Mikki Mouth Club TM, an annual subscription-based presentation skills coaching membership with three distinct divisions...Speaker Source, Accountability Academy and Keynote Kamp TM. 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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