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Unearth Opportunities By “Looming” Your Brilliance

This is my first video to unearth opportunities-recorded Brilliance Nugget. As with all other Brilliance Nuggets, it is short, and (hopefully) useful and fun. It is also imperfect – while I strive to do it with excellence I realize that one always can do it even better. However, when we wait for “perfect” we create […]

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How Can Innovative Entrepreneurs Stay Captain of Their Ship?

You are brilliant! As one of the innovative entrepreneurs, your business has the potential to make a real difference and shake up the status quo. You are working your buttocks off to make it happen. Can you relate? I can. I’ve been there, done that. In fact, I’m still doing it! Some businesses can make

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How To Ensure Your Online Learning Does Not Fall Flat

Online learning is great, right? Capture lessons in an online course, tell someone how to log in, and leave them to their own devices. Right? Wrong! There is little success in pure Do-It-Yourself courses. Depending on your age, you might still remember the days when self-improvement gurus like Tony Robbins sold their programs on DVDs

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What’s Better For You: The Firehose Or Drip Irrigation?

Making your life (and business or nonprofit) better involves some change. Is it better to make the change all at once or one small step at a time? What’s better: The metaphorical firehose or drip irrigation? The answer is, “It depends.” When your building is on fire, you need a firehose. You need rapid change, or

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How You Can Always Make Someone’s Life Better 

There is much need for help all around us. How can you make someone’s life better and contribute a difference that matters? The answer is more straightforward than we sometimes think. Do something! Yes, we can’t solve all the world’s problems independently and overnight. But we can help. Even if it is something tiny, it adds

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Never Underestimate The Wondrous Gifts From Writing Every Day 

Today is the 184th day of me writing Brilliance Nuggets every day. I have been writing every day for six months now. Yesterday, I crossed the halfway point of my year-long writing journey. I get these questions a lot: I want to answer these questions by sharing the gifts I have gotten along the way

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How To Expand Your Freedom Now And Forever

“Okay, I’m curious!” You might be thinking. “Tell me, how can you expand your freedom now and forever?” Here’s confession #1: It is likely that I’m not sharing anything new in this Brilliance Nugget (how brilliant is that?). However, it is also quite possible that a reminder is a good thing. If you take this reminder

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