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15 Tips for Using LinkedIn Updates to Grow Your Network
Do you remember the card game Concentration? Or maybe you called it Memory or Pairs?
To start, all the cards were face down in rows. You chose two cards to turn over. If you made a match, finding two aces for example, you kept those cards and could turn over two more. If you did not make a match, your turn ended and the next person tried.
The person with the most matches won.
What a Croc
I was a persistent child. How persistent? Let’s just say that several times during my childhood my father wished, “May you have a child just like you.”
Well, I did. Two of them.
How To Beat Email Triage
For the holidays, I unplugged for 9 days. I went on a cruise with my husband, kids, siblings, their spouses and kids, and my parents. We were a group of 14.
Depending on your family, that may not sound relaxing to you. But it was for me.
I participated in trivia competitions with family members (and won a couple). I read. I ate. I danced. I flew in a simulated skydiving chamber.
Brand Storytelling Lessons From Harry Chapin
I missed seeing Harry Chapin in concert by three days.
If you don’t know Harry Chapin by name, you would probably recognize one of his songs, particularly Cat’s in the Cradle or Taxi.
I was at a summer program in East Brunswick, New Jersey with 21 other teenagers in July 1981.
The Downton Abbey Method of Marketing
Are you good at remembering names?
Even if you aren’t, I bet you could recite the names of the characters on Downton Abbey. Or Mad Men. Or The Big Bang Theory. Or whatever TV series you enjoy.
You know the characters well now, but you didn’t the first time you saw them.
You got to know them over several episodes through the repeated use of their names, their actions, their expressions, and most importantly, their stories.