Archive for the ‘personal development’ Category
Don’t get out! Don’t talk to people! Stay in your comfort zone!
If these words are music to your ears then join the club. There’s nothing I would like better than to be able to potter around in the office, produce new products and then wait until the business comes in as if by magic!
So why shouldn’t it work like that?
Hey, I’ve got a great website! My [...]
February 8, 2010
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Pat Sutton · 
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Tags: communication, marketing, networking, patsutton, personal development, relationships, verbal business card · Posted in: business, marketing, personal development, tips
A good way to beat writer’s block!
One of my favourite bloggers at the moment is James Chartrand. Here is one of his wonderful tips for when we’re suffering from blogger’s block.
“Great quotations are the richest goldmine of blog post ideas you’ll ever have.”
So I popped over to Wikiquote and found this great quotation by Sarah Bernhardt -Â “Life engenders life. Energy [...]
January 18, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, taxi, website · Posted in: Blogging, marketing, personal development, writing
Forget the glass ceiling – use the fire escape instead!
When, after 8 years, I decided to emerge from the security of a monthly salary I was met with the usual, “Are you sures and are you mads”
Thankfully, I didn’t listen
I felt that as Marketing Director of a company like Advantage Business Angels I was being held back.
My talent for thinking outside the box was [...]
December 2, 2009
· Pat Sutton · One Comment
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, motivation, pat sutton, personal development, relationships, twitter · Posted in: Blogging, motivation, personal development
Confessions of a Blogger.
At last my official blog website is actually finished. My intention of blogging for a living has become a reality.
Ok, what next?
The first thing I need to do is to go back over the archives and delete all my earlier muses.
In the early days, as is usual for blog virgins, my impression of a blog [...]
November 9, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 3 Comments
Tags: blog, bloggin, internet, pat sutton, personal development, relationships · Posted in: Blogging, FrontPage, motivation, personal development, writing
If you build a relationship – they will come!
How often have you received an e-mail or message saying – Hello, I am Joe Blogs and I am so excited to get to know you, why not pop over to my website and.…I know you have because I have, in fact I have probably been the guilty party. In fact I do believe that I have [...]
November 9, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 3 Comments
Tags: blog, communication, marketing, selling, website · Posted in: how to guides, marketing, personal development
Union gives strength! An Aesops fable.
An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice.
He ordered his servants to bring in a faggot of sticks, and said to his eldest son:
“Break it.” The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the Bundle.
The other sons also [...]
October 27, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 7 Comments
Tags: visionary · Posted in: personal development, visionary
Don’t listen to the negative thinkers!
Many of us feel set in our ways. We’ve been doing things the same way for so long, it is hard to imagine we could change.
But anyone can change, yes I said anyone!
You can create changes in your life by doing the tiniest of actions each day, like doing 5 minutes of exercise or cutting out [...]
October 25, 2009
· Pat Sutton · No Comments
Tags: pat sutton, personal development, relationships, selling · Posted in: motivation, personal development
12 things to be thankful for.
…for the taxes you pay because it means that you’re employed.
…for the mess to clean up after a party because it means you’ve been surrounded by friends.
…for the clothes that fit a little too snug because it means you have enough to eat.
…for the shadow that follows you everywhere because it means you’re out in [...]
October 25, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: marketing, personal development, relationships · Posted in: personal development
When you have moments of doubt – my message to you!
What is the message you would like to receive when you are feeling insecure and having moments of doubt?
What would you like to hear to give you the confidence to keep going and to re-assure you that you are on the right track?
Why not ask someone close to you to write you a message that [...]
October 25, 2009
· Pat Sutton · No Comments
Tags: marketing, pat sutton, personal development, relationships, selling · Posted in: personal development
