Shawn Ellis

The Power of Focus and Flow: How Paying Attention Opens the Door to Happiness and High Performance… Right Now

Finding Focus

“If you’re like most of us, you probably take pride in your ability to multitask, to be incredibly efficient by simultaneously listening to a conference call, writing a few e-mails, and eating your salad at your desk,” writes Janice Marturano in her book, Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership. Sound […]

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You Need to STOP! [How to Find Space to Pause and Renew Your Energy Today]

Red Light

When is the last time you really stopped and did nothing? You mean, when is the last time I was lazy? Doing nothing is not something we’re very good at, is it? We always need to be doing something. I was reminded of this yet again while working remotely at a cafe at a few days

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Do you have to sacrifice your life for business success? [VIDEO]

[leadplayer_vid id=”52CD7F056E8EA”] You know our theme around here is “better life, better business” — as in, how to live a better life and build a better business… simultaneously. That’s why I had to share this new video from Jonathan Fields of the Good Life Project, where he responds to a viewer who wrote in: “I’ve

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5 Steps to Create More Amazing Moments with Your Customers (and How to Recover from Awful Ones)

Customer service is defined by moments. We all know that. Perhaps no one knows it better than Morton’s The Steakhouse, though. A couple of years ago, Morton’s created an amazing “moment” when a gentleman named Alex from Morton’s Hackensack (New Jersey) met Peter Shankman at the airport with “a 24 oz. Porterhouse steak, an order of

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