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How I Gamified My Own Brain to Lose Weight & Improve Fitness

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I started advice with the premise that no amount of exercise or food eating plan would help with long-term fitness or weight goals unless you first had a mental plan and a set of measurements to track your progress. Having a positive mental outlook helped me perform better. It’s amazing what mental coaching can do for a workout. “A

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8 Startup Excesses Which Will Jeopardize The Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

A winning linked focus example is to choose a higher purpose common to all cultures, such as protecting the environment, or helping the underprivileged. Old-fashioned surveys need help from new algorithms, data science, and digital bots. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Make every customer experience memorable.

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5 Keys To Leadership While Working With Remote Teams

Startup Professionals Musings

I offer here my interpretation of her five key leadership behavior principles: Help team members find meaning with work. Team members who work remotely are also easily forgotten in their need for shared play activities outside of work. Help them to know when to say ‘no’ or at least ‘not right now.’ Start with ‘How are you?’

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. And my company is hugely relevant to what they’re doing so having an advocate at senior levels there is certainly a help.” 23 companies have gone through Launchpad LA.

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8 Ways Startups Spend Resources Without Adding Value

Startup Professionals Musings

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Hire real help and learn to delegate.

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7 Keys To Teaming With The Right Mentor For Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Most successful business people, whether retired or still active, would love to share some of the wisdom they have gained from their own experience, but are not inclined to impose themselves on others. It’s tempting for technical founders to seek more depth on technical issues, when they need marketing and financial help.

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