Passion. Attitude. And the third element of “The Trinity for Changing Times? ”  Relationships.

When you were a child, your mother taught you to hold hands when you crossed the street. Holding hands is important. Those hands can be your lifeline in tough times and they can be your bridge to the opportunities that are out there.

Listen – really listen — for the opportunities. Learn from others, use what works for you and then pass it on to someone who can use it too. Give, take, share. Build relationships…and your clients will come.

I’ll be talking more about the pursuing and building relationships  in the first seminar of my series entitled “What Do I Do Now.”  You can catch me live on Thursday, 4/13/09 (5:30 – 7:00 ) at Fiamme Restaurant in Westlake Village, CA. Just call 818-865-8055 to reserve your seat…and this one’s free!

P.S. — Don’t worry if you can’t make it this time. There will be more live seminars…and we’ll be featuring them on video, on site in the months to come.

Bob Dylan was right, then and now. The times they are a changin.’ The question that any organization – big or small, local or global — is  faced with in these changing times, tenor and territories is “ How do we feel about it? Beginning of the end or beginning of a new era? Time to dig in or jump in?

Attitude, my friends. Attitude tells the tale. Attitude is the difference between

“IMPOSSIBLE” and “I’M POSSIBLE.”

The fact is, times like these constitute a golden opportunity for leaders, entrepreneurs and organizations to retool, refresh or reinvent themselves, their company, their employees. It’s an exciting, resolve-testing time to be alive – not the “me” decade or the “we” decade, but the “re” decade.

I’m in the “re” business. Always have been. Changing times demand new solutions and I’ve had to constantly retool, refresh and reinvent myself — adding, augmenting, and fine-tuning my service offerings in response to the changing global climate. Along the way, I’ve learned valuable lessons about the nature of leadership and the power of a positive attitude.

And brother…it counts for everything.

I’ll be talking more about the importance of attitude in the first seminar of my series entitled “What Do I Do Now.”  You can catch me live on Thursday, 4/13/09 (5:30 – 7:00 ) at Fiamme Restaurant in Westlake Village, CA. Just call 818-865-8055 to reserve your seat…and this one’s free!

P.S. –  Don’t worry if you can’t make it this time around. There will be more live seminars…and we’ll be featuring them all on video, on site in the months to come.

Maguire Here.

Change. It’s a constant in all our lives – more so now than ever. It’s all around us. The world is changing so rapidly and so dramatically that the greatest challenge is just keeping up, let alone taking full advantage of the abundant opportunities which present themselves on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis.

Question: How do you feel about it? Do you tend to look upon change as the beginning of the end…or are you actually in touch with the fact that it represents a golden opportunity to retool or refresh or reinvent yourself, your company, your employees?

Are you passionate – truly I-can’t-wait-to-dive-in passionate — about what you do? If not, now is the perfect time for a change. I mean a change to that thing or pursuit or dream that you do feel passionate about. Intensity is critical to success and if you can’t feel it, why bother? Find your passion or you’ll find yourself left behind.

I talk more about the necessity of passion in the first seminar of my series entitled “What Do I Do Now.”  You can catch me live on Thursday, 4/13/09 at Fiamme Restaurant in Westlake Village, CA  Call 818-865-8055 to reserve your seat…and this one’s free! See you there.

And P.S. –  Don’t worry if you can’t make it. We’ll be featuring it on video, on site in the months to come.