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I play intramural kickball on Sundays. The name of our team is Balls of Steel. The gi-normous aluminum balls are compliments of yours truly. It’s totally cool. About fifteen of us show up each week – guys AND gals from all walks of life – anywhere between 22-40 years old. We bring lounge chairs; dogs, radios, snacks, coolers, and we hang out in the park all afternoon and just…

LET ME ASK YA THIS… What’s under your fingernails? LET ME SUGGEST THIS… For the list called, “86 Passion-Finding Questions to Get Other People to Talk about What They LOVW,” send an email to me, and I’ll send you the list for free! * * * * Scott Ginsberg That Guy with the Nametag Author, Speaker, Coach, Entrepreneur [email protected] Never the same speech twice. Always about approachability. Watch The…

Biography isn’t destiny. Challenge yourself to abandon popular delusions, banish childhood labels and break the veil. You need to continue to evolve. You need to deprogram your mind. To detoxify your thinking, disconnect all shackles, drop your training and dismantle old assumptions. Because if you DON’T do that – if you don’t eliminate old answers, rewrite your scripts and escape narrow definitions – you will never heal the damage…

If you work with one of those delightful people whose sole purpose in life is to flood your mental landscape with complaints, consider these five practices for approaching them with comfort and class: 1. Appreciate their value. Yes, complaining is unattractive. Yes, complaining solves nothing. Yes, complaining makes you want to drown yourself in the water cooler. Still, there is some validity in listening closely to what people are…

1. Create a movement. Not a company. Not a product. Not a service. A movement. This requires a significantly higher level of passion, inner fire and tolerance for ambiguity. The cool part is, it’s more rewarding, more fun and more engaging. The challenging part is, you sleep a lot less. Oh well. Are you building a following? 2. Create a referral-rich environment. Several ways to do this. First, people…

“I bow to you.” That’s the literal translation of the Sanskrit word namaste. And although it’s primarily used as a greeting or salutation in Indian, Buddhist and Asian cultures/faiths, there’s no reason you can’t embrace the spirit of namaste in your own daily life. I first experienced this philosophy when I started taking Bikram Yoga. At the end of each class – right before our instructor walked out of…

LET ME ASK YA THIS… What did you write today? LET ME SUGGEST THIS… For the list called, “9 Things Every Writer Must Do Every Day,” send an email to me, and I’ll send you the list for free! * * * * Scott Ginsberg That Guy with the Nametag Author, Speaker, Coach, Entrepreneur [email protected] Never the same speech twice. Always about approachability. Watch The Nametag Guy in action…

Today we’re going to wrap up our discussion becoming known as the most approachable person in your organization. (If you haven’t read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, knock yourself out.) So, whether you’re an office professional, middle manager, C-level executive or part of the overnight cleaning crew, executing these strategies will accomplish three goals: (1) Boost the net worth of your human capital (2) Attract MORE attention,…

1. Act overworked, annoyed and irrational. That way people will stop asking you so many damn questions. 2. Be pervasively unpredictable. 3. Cling to any available shred of power. 4. Completely ignore the self-interest of everyone but yourself. 5. Create an environment where people are afraid to ask questions. 6. Demonstrate complete and utter unwillingness to understand how other people experience you. 7. Exude a constant sense of scarcity…

Video not working? Click here for Adobe Flash 9. Watch the original video on NametagTV! LET ME ASK YA THIS… How are you branding your service? LET ME SUGGEST THIS… For a list called, “12 Ways to Out Service the Competition,” send an email to me, and I’ll send you the list for free! * * * * Scott Ginsberg That Guy with the Nametag Author, Speaker, Coach, Entrepreneur…