1. Letting Money Get In Your Way
(Articles/Personal Development)

... your dreams. If you can find a way to raise money, then you are developing a skill that can help you time and again to fund all your future dreams. People like successful fund raisers or rainmakers, ...

2. Targeted Customer Appreciation
(Articles/Business Topics)

... type of customer you want to have the most of, and they come back more often. Develop a more intimate business relationship with your ideal customers and you can lock them in. Define ...

3. New Year's Switch
(Articles/Personal Development)

... ever did happen would blow the breaker and not cause injury. I am pleased to report the repair was a success, and we now have working lights in the carport area. Personal Development This mini project ...

4. Home Improvement
(Articles/Personal Development)

I have been thinking recently along the lines that home improvement leads to personal development. As you fix up your home, you gain benefits along the way which go beyond the four walls of your home. ...

5. Customer Appreciation
(Articles/Business Topics)

... barriers to developing genuine relationships with your customers. For example, if the manager at my local store takes the time to learn my name and then uses my name when they talk to me in the future, ...

6. Referrals
(Articles/Business Topics)

... new business versus investing time on your existing customers. Perhaps you are new into sales, and don’t have many past customers to develop into a source of referrals. If possible, pick up orphan ...

7. More on Appreciation Speech
(Articles/Miscelaneous Articles)

... send your loved one an email, with a list of all the things you appreciate about him or her. What does appreciation have to do with personal development? It is a philosophy, "An ...

8. Mentoring: Building the Stars
(Articles/Business Topics)

... was doomed. With [[mentoring]], you are in the business of developing stars. If you think of great people, there is likely a mentor behind them that helped them ...

9. Role Models
(Articles/Personal Development)

... you interact with. When you are young, you look to others for an example of how you should live your life. If you are lucky, you are surrounded by people of good character, and you learn and develop ...

10. Submission Guidelines
(Column/Editor's Column)

... to be selected for publication. The focus of this newsletter is personal development and topics related to starting a small business. I like to keep a positive tone throughout Big Dreams. The articles should ...

11. Transferable Skills
(Articles/Personal Development)

... skill/tool for the job, but I can adapt and develop new ones. To make use of your talents you have to change your perspective. To do this you change the questions you ask yourself, for example: ...

12. #1 Training Classes, Certification and Provider Directory
(Web Links / Personal Development)

A directory of training, certification, learning and development providers and their programs. Our goal is to connect those who wish to learn with those who love to teach ...

13. Pay It Forward Foundation
(Web Links / Helping Others)

The Pay It Forward Foundation was developed by Catherine Ryan Hyde to bring the message from her novel to classrooms across the country. ...

14. Personal Development
(Category)

Articles on personal development.  ...