Connie’s Inspiring Motivational quote is by ~ Frederick Reichheld "I have yet to find a company that has earned high levels of customer loyalty without first earning high levels of employee loyalty .” So what really creates loyalty in the corporate world? Years ago our grandparents and maybe even our parents worked for one company for their entire career. Maybe 30-40 years. Wow! For most of us that sounds crazy. 40 years…what? No way! That’s what I call loyalty! In the past … companies were loya...
Apr 09, 2018•37 min
Connie’s motivational quote today is by, ~ Read on a Sign "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription – Please remove my name from your mailing list.” How many of us would love to be able to take our name off of the IRS list? If only!!! Tax laws seem to change like the weather and keeping up with proper information is not an easy task for a licensed CPA, let alone just a regular citizen! Is the CPA the only expert needed when thinking about taxes, and maybe more importantly, trying to lowe...
Apr 02, 2018•37 min
Connie’s fun quote is by ~ Ahsoka Tano and she says, “This is a new day, a new beginning.” Do you know who Ahsoka Tano is and which movie her character was introduced in? Absoka is a character from the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars. She was introduced as the Padawanapprentice to Anakin Skywalker (the future Darth Vader). If you are old enough to remember the original Star Wars movie, which was released in 1980 – then you are old enough to remember the debut of the Internet in 1982...
Mar 26, 2018•38 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Will Rogers “ Don’t wait to buy land. Buy land and wait” Do you have enough saved for retirement? Do you know how much of a nest egg or monthly cash flow you will need when you retire? Putting money away in various investment vehicles is a must in order to manage inflation, taxation and future health care costs. These are all potential things that can eat away at our future buying power during retirement. So how do you know if you have all the right ...
Mar 19, 2018•32 min
Connie’s motivational quote today is by, – Earl Nightingale “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” Dreams…everyone dreams at night. Some remember their dreams while others seem to wake up but recalling their dreams seem just out of reach. For today, let’s look at dreams from a different perspective. Let’s explore this notion of dreams that we can explore while we are awake! Cool idea, right? In order to explore our “life drea...
Mar 12, 2018•36 min
Connie’s motivational quote today is by, ~ Roy T. Bennett “ Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. ” Have you ever felt that sometimes your life doesn’t work out the way you hoped and planned? Do you see repetitive patterns in your life over and over again? Perhaps the patters are the same it’s the people that change? Why does this happen and are you creating these repetitive situations? Did you know that many of our core beliefs, and how we respond...
Mar 05, 2018•42 min
Connie’s motivational quote today is by, Unknown: “Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender who you are for what you could become.” Recent research done by Brian Dias & Dr. Kerry Ressler, of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta found that mice exposed to cherry blossom scent and were given a light electric current under their feet, learned to correlate the cherry blossom scent with being shocked. Further research showed that their offspring reacted to the scent of che...
Feb 26, 2018•34 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ happy-lucky-dog.com “ Dogs are like music! Never try to explain their worth to those who cannot appreciate them.” How may of you have a dog, as a family member of your household? How many of you see leadership qualities in your dog? Are you thinking she has lost her mind! Dog and leadership – what the heck do they have in common? Well grab your dog; settle in as you listen to my guests, Krissi Barr ’s amazing insight. In their new book THE FIDO FACTO...
Feb 19, 2018•38 min
Connie’s Inspiring Motivational quote is by ~ WhereWeGoNow.com “ I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” Do you need to be brave to love yourself? Is that why love seems to elude some of us? Does it start with us loving ourselves before another can love us too? Here is an interesting question, are you able to look yourself in the mirror and say, “I love you just as you are!” At some point, we have all faced that moment ...
Feb 12, 2018•37 min
Connie’s motivational quote today is by, – Amen Amar’e @ real men movement “Lack of communication leads to a lack of trust, that leaves room for doubt.” Have you ever been in meetings or at a family event and felt that no one was listening to you? Did you ever have something really important to say and felt ignored? Why does this happen and perhaps more frequently than you would like? Are we doing something wrong or are we just missing a key piece of information that can empower us to be heard e...
Feb 05, 2018•33 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Bishop T.D. Jakes “ If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.” Do you all remember the book and movie Eat, Pray, Love and how the character, Liz Gilbert (played by Julia Roberts), went on a journey to Italy, India, and Indonesia, to find her life’s purpose and perhaps simply to find herself? How many of us have that feeling that we are meant to live a better, happier, more f...
Jan 29, 2018•37 min
Connie’s Inspiring Motivational quote is by ~ Darnell Lamont Walker “ Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.” So what really does become of the broken-hearted? Have you made the same mistake over and over? Find out that your new love was just as bad/sneaky/mean/dysfunctional as your old love? It seems like patterns love to repeat themselves. At some point, I think we all get gun-shy. Starting a relationship just might mean the agony of ending a ...
Jan 22, 2018•38 min
Connie‘s motivational quote for today is by ~ Ann Landers “ Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead, that is where your future lies” Ah…Retirement…Sounds like a great time of our life – kind of an endless vacation…right? We wait for the day we don’t have to sit in rush hour traffic, deal with a boss that is less than desirable, and are able to play golf, sit on a beach, or travel. But getting there takes some doing! Are you prepared to enter retirement and live the same lifestyle as you d...
Jan 15, 2018•35 min
Connie‘s motivational quote today is by, ~ Wayne Dyer “Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.” Are you happy with your job or career? If you are, you are not alone. In a resent Gallup poll from 2013, 70% of Americans that were surveyed said that they either hated their job or felt disengaged. 70% of us go to work every day and hate every minute…WOW! That is sad and disturbing. T...
Jan 08, 2018•38 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Emily Post “Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.” Etiquette – do you think this is an antiquated word? But what it’s really all about is respectful behavior and simple manners – how you conduct yourself and how you treat others. Etiquette, manners and behavior in the workplace are a biggie. The reality is that in today’s workforce, people come from fi...
Jan 01, 2018•36 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Robert Urich “ A healthy outside starts from the inside.” Wow – 7 words to live by, seriously! Our society is always looking to treat the symptoms. …or problems on the surface. But in order to manifest beauty on the outside you must take care of what is on the inside first But … how do we do that? Let’s start with the basics – food and nutrition! There was a second quote that is very powerful by Errick McAdams that says, “If you keep good food in you...
Dec 25, 2017•36 min
Connie’s motivational quote is by, ~ Galileo “ I have loved the stars too fondly to be afraid of the night .” Have you or someone you know been effected by cancer? Sadly, the answer is probably yes. In a report from 2012, the World Health Organization revealed that over 14 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year. That is a staggering number that increases each year. When we hear that dreaded word “cancer,” one can only feel fear and overwhelm. The pathway to curing this disease has m...
Dec 11, 2017•41 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Lao Tzu “ Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” What an interesting quote. Love is so powerful that it gives us the strength to live an empowered life and helps us find the courage to be true to ourselves. But what happens when love causes pain? Haven’t we all had our hearts broken? Maybe even more than a few times…ugh. It doesn’t make us feel empowered or courageous. It makes us feel lost, ...
Dec 04, 2017•40 min
Teddy Roosevelt has been quoted saying: “The only one who never makes mistakes is the one who never does anything.” Have you heard this quote before? Think about it, how many times have you made a mistake or taken a wrong turn only to end up in the right place? Mistakes are a necessary part of living, growing, experiencing and creating. Yet, most of us freak out when given an opportunity to change something in our life. It takes thought, effort and work to develop something new or to improve our...
Nov 27, 2017•36 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Robert Ballard “ Following your own passion – Not your parents’, not your teachers’ – YOURS.” Does this quote reflect how you have lived your life until now? Or throughout your life have you heard things like, “Do well in school. Get good grades, so you can get into a good college. Then you have a good chance of getting a good job.” Does this sound more familiar to you then the quote above, about living your passion? The thing is, what we have heard ...
Nov 20, 2017•34 min
Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Jeanne McElvaney “You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren’t alone.” This powerful quote has a key word that we are going to focus on today and that is courage. There are many forms of abuse. Verbal abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse and the list goes on. Most of can only shudder as we watch the 6’oclock news and hear about a child...
Nov 13, 2017•37 min
Some Pearls of wisdom from everyone’s favorite and most successful investors in the world, Warren Buffett. “ Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? How many times have you heard your mom or dad say, “save for a rainy day?” The good old days are gone forever. Remember years ago there was a retirement savings plan called a pension. Most of us today do not have such a substantial form of savings, put away for us, by our emp...
Nov 06, 2017•34 min
Connie’s motivational quote is by – Meryl Streep: Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.” Change is such a huge topic and sometimes feels hard to accomplish. We can all agree that change in life is inevitable! How we approach and handle change impacts the end result, right? There are many ways to mange our changing paths and none of them should be criticized by anyone, including ourselves. Sometimes we can be our biggest and worst cr...
Oct 30, 2017•37 min
Connie’s motivational quotes for today is by – Steve Maraboli : “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” Did you know that dancing is directly linked to kindness? One nonprofit organization knows how to get everyone dancing in the streets. They do not think small either; they accomplish this across the world! Would you like to be part of this mo...
Oct 23, 2017•34 min
