Helping Boomers and Gen-Xers Design Success!!

May 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Tomorrow (May 15, 2012) I am shutting down two blogs that have been a part of The Doulos Group for the past two years. I am not shutting them down because they are unimportant of because they are no longer relevant. I am shutting them down in order to focus my attention on the things in life and business that I am most passionate about.

Those things are simply:

  1. I am going to help people design a life-style that blends life and business to fulfill their dreams.
  2. I am going to focus my efforts on helping my clients through the process of discovery, design, and delivery of their passion within their definition of success.
  3. I am going to focus my efforts on Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers who are looking for a way to reinvent retirement.

With these simple rules in place I hope that everyone who comes to visit will find something worth while, something that makes sense, and something that helps them design success!

Come back often and let’s get this party started!!!

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Monday’s Question – What Makes a Guru a Guru?

September 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment

As one who works in the area of business and life coaching, this may not be the best question to ask, but here goes, “What makes a guru a guru?”

I get emails every day from people who promise (for a not so nominal fee) that they will teach me what I don’t know about something that they do. Most of the time they will provide a “free trial” but if you want the really good stuff you have to pay.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not opposed to paying people for knowledge that I need, that they have (I do that myself), but what I want to know is what makes a guru a guru? What makes their knowledge something worth paying for and how can you find out before you make your first payment?

That, my friend, is the million dollar question, right? I am hoping that the conversation that is question starts will cause people seeking to sell their knowledge and expertise to really understand what is valuable and what is fluff! Hopefully we will stop selling the fluff and only sell the value.

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When Your Business Becomes Personal

July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Sometimes I think that I harp on this too much, but as I read blogs and talk with people I find that so many are tired of doing the same old stuff just to bring home a paycheck. Statistics back this up when you read that more than half of working people would like a job or career other than the one they current have.

I think it is time for people to reconsider life and what makes it valuable. I think that it is time for you to consider what you could do when your business becomes personal. When what you do so matches the reality of your being that you can’t wait to get to it. When what you do keeps you up at night and wakes you up early in the morning.

We would have more artisans and craftsmen. Builders would no longer be builders but would be a structural artist (do you remember Frank Loyd Wright?). Teachers would no longer teach classes but would train students to achieve greatness. People would be thinkers and contemplative. Life would be exciting and that excitement would be contagious.

When your business becomes personal you will do what it takes to succeed because success would have greater impact that a fat wallet or a new car. Lives would be different and better because you and your business made it so. Loyalty and referral business would be the name of life’s tune. You would serve your customers as no one else could because of your passion.

These and many more amazing things would happen if you stopped doing what people expect you to do and allowed your business to become personal.

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