Leads Club is proud to announce that orie Raphel, Tarzana member and Chapter Consutlant, has won the top prize for his Flowers by Orie by the Bride’s Choice Awards.

WeddingWire, the nations leading wedding technology company, just announced that Flowers by Orie has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards. (TM)

In it’s inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognixes and honors vendors from the WEddingWire Network that demostrates excellence quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility.  This year’s recipients respresent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 1000,000 wedding venmdors from across the US.  that means Flowers by Orie is one of the very best wedding floral specialists!

Congratulations Orie!

Napoleon Hill states:

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul;  the blueprints of your ulitmate achievements.

Dreams give us goals, goals give us purpose, purpose gives us excitement.

Give yourself the dream of a full Leads Club, of many referrals for you and your club members.  I always say, as long as you’re dreaming, dream big!

I have been on many ‘coaching’ calls and webniars,  teleseminars.   I too have watched the television news and read the New York Times since January 2009. What I notice is that there is a great deal of pressure on all of us.

Pressure to produce a result, to make a sale, to change.  Change our habits;  eating, spending,  working out, networking.  You name it, we are being asked to drop old  habits and change  to ones that will give us health, wealth and fulfillment.  Changing habits requires real thinking

I like what Peter Marshall said about pressure:

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

I would be lying if I didn’t acknowledge that there is a great deal of pressure on us, pressure asd a country, as a people, as busniess owners committed to a better world. but remember my last post: responding is different than reacitng.  When under pressure, breathe and then respond. 

I had a mentor of mine ask me this week;  "What is the difference between reacting and responding?"

I really had to  take a moment to think about that.  I saw that reacting was a habitual way of dealing with circumstances, and responding required some time to think, almost meditate of what to say, or do. 

I find that for the most part the world tries to train us to react. We seem to be asked to get an answer fast, get some result fast. But does that give us the best results on what we want to have as outcomes?

Maybe taking just a moment to take a breath, and think things through you will see a solution that will give you better results than your old habitual of response.

ITTI.  What does that mean?  I Take The Initiative. 

All business owners might think about having this stamped on their computer, phone, or calendar.  What does it mean? 

Just that;  as a business owner you take the initiative.  You take the first move, you start the conversation, you ask the important or difficult questions, you do the research.