Debra Kasowski

Building Confidence

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Are there times that you wish you felt more confident when you walk a room? If you look around that room, do you think everyone is 100% all the time? Tell you what, everybody lacks confidence in one area in their life or another, especially when they are trying out new things. Instead of worrying about that someone is so much better than you and comparing yourself. Look at the areas in your life that you are confident in, you feel completely in control in. You already ARE and HAVE confidence in many areas of your life…maybe just not in the area you are hoping to right now.

Do you want to know the biggest secret?

“You increase your confidence every time you take action toward your goal that you are trying to reach. ” – Debra Kasowski

As you get practice, you might make mistakes, fall down, you get up, and you keep perserving – you reflect, and learn whatever lessons that that brought you. I guarantee you soon enough, you will also have confidence in those areas too. Then you will have a new area you will have to practice.

Get up and know that you have confidence in other areas of your life right now. You might just need to learn more lessons right now to make you more confident where you are right now and where you are heading.

 

 

Sometimes You Just Need to Put the Blinders On

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This post seems so appropriate since Rodeo Week is just around the corner. In a recent a late night phone conversation with a friend of mine,  I was asking her if she checked out some of the things that others were doing in her industry. She mentioned she did not. I am quite a curious cat so I asked “Why?” “Well” she said, ” If I look at what others are doing, I may have the tendency to compare what they are doing to what I am doing.” How many of you can relate? Sometimes this comparison can downright pull you down if you are coming from a place of “She is so much better than me.” or “I do not have what she has.: or even “She’s been a this longer than I have.”  I have also noticed that sometimes people can start copying the person they are comparing themselves to without even realizing it. Whoa there! 

 

First of all, if you are looking at the others in the industry, look for what appeals to you and what seems to be working for them. Huge warning…you do not want to adopt or align with beliefs or ideas that do not resonate with you. Be YOU! People want to work with people who are true to who they are. Secondly, you are already enough and you have what it takes. Do not downplay what you have accomplished. You need to do it your way! People are attracted to doing business and forming relationships with others based on synergy and a feeling of connection. Thirdly, do not forget – you are brilliant and you have tons of ideas that need to be put into action. You may feel uncomfortable when you put the ideas into action. I even get nervous when I am trying new things. No I am not kidding depending on what it is. It is a mix of nervousness and excitement and then a sense of, “I can do this. I have stretched before and I can do it again.” The results I have gotten better and better every time. As my motto goes, “Do not let your greatest regret in life be that you never took action.”

Be strategic. Learn from others but remember to value the talents and skills you bring forth. After all, there is only one you and no one can do things your way!

Put your blinders on. Focus on how your ideas are going to make a difference in the world and say, “Giddy Up! I am on the track. I am going to win this one!”

Patricia Fripp

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Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning speaker, author, sales trainer and in-demand speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well-known sports and media personalities, ministers and sales teams. Meetings and Conventions magazine named her “One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America.” She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations. Steven Covey’s Executive Excellence magazine named her “One of the top 50 consultants, trainers, speakers, authors and professors who cover the Seven Dimensions of Excellence.” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance November 2002 issue claimed, “Patricia Fripp’s speaking skills class is the sixth best investment to make with $1,000.”

Before becoming a full-time speaker, Patricia enjoyed a successful career in a service industry for 24 years. She owned two highly successful businesses that included training both service and sales personnel.

Patricia first received payment for speaking and training in 1976. Since 1980 she has spoken to at least 100 groups a year, many of them repeat engagements. This includes Fortune 100 companies and major associations worldwide. The over 4,000-member National Speakers Association elected her the first female President in 1984. She has won or been awarded every designation given by NSA, including the Hall of Fame and the Cavett Award, the highest honor and considered the Oscar of the speaking world.

Patricia is the author of two books, Get What You Want! and Make It, So You Don’t Have to Fake It!, and coauthor of Speaking Secrets of the Masters and Insights into Excellence. She is featured in the Bullet Proof Manager video series, which is sold in over fifty countries. Fripp starred in the popular training film Travel the Road to Success: An Adventure in Customer Service.

Fripp’s hobbies of attending screen-writing seminars and avid movie going add an extra dimension to her training that is not usually found with other speech coaches. She has been featured in the media herself for over thirty years.

For more information visit: http://www.fripp.com

 

Lori Raudnask

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Skillfully blending her 11 years of “corporate world” with 20 years of professional sales experience, Lori Raudnask is able to connect with audiences immediately. Through an interactive process, participants are driven to look at their own professional and personal lives and identify what they can do to achieve desired results. She is the author of Persistence Pays – How Getting What You Want is Easier Than You Think.

Chosen as Stoney Creek ’s “Citizen of the Year” and nominated for Hamilton “Woman of the Year,” Lori is active in her community believing that service is a critical tool to success and fulfillment. Her community leadership includes Director with the Stoney Creek Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors for Courage to Cope (a support group for families with missing children); Past Commodore of the Fifty Point Yacht Club; Past Chair of the Orchard Park Secondary School Council; and volunteer for Camp Trillium within the cancer clinic at the local hospital. Lori’s family includes husband, Lembit, children Megan and Kyle and the family dog, Madison.

For more information visit: www.persistencepays.ca

Lisa Sasevich

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 Recently honored as one of America’s Top Women Mentoring Leaders by WoW Magazine, Lisa Sasevich, “The Queen of Sales Conversion,” teaches experts who are making a difference how to get their message out and enjoy massive results, without being “sales-y.” 

Recognized sales expert by Success Magazine, Lisa delivers high-impact sales-closing strategies for turbo-charging entrepreneurs and small business owners to great profits.

According to best-selling author Brian Tracy, “Lisa Sasevich is one of the greatest discoveries in America today!”

Kym and Sandra Yancey of e-Women Network say that  “without question she is brilliant at teaching others how to leverage their unique gifts and qualities and convert them into a financial windfall. She is one authentic, heart-centered expert that delivers in spades!”

Robert Allen, author of multiple New York Times Best Sellers says, “She added a zero to my income today just by watching her. Lisa Sasevich. Watch that name and whatever you do, be part of what she’s doing.  You’re going to love it.”

After 25 years of winning Top Sales Awards and training senior executives at companies like Pfizer and Hewlett-Packard, she left corporate America and put her skills to the test as an entrepreneur.

And in just a few short years, Lisa created a multi-million dollar home-based business with two toddlers in tow and her husband in medical school. Lisa is the undisputed expert on how to make BIG money doing what you love!