Google phone search now has maps

“Today, your GOOG-411 experience just got better: during your call to GOOG-411, just say “map it”, and you’ll get a text message with the details of your search plus a link to a map of your results right on your mobile phone.”

 Official Google Blog: 1-800-GOOG-411: now with maps

100% Success Rate

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Think of this – if we learn something in that 5% of the time that we don’t do it so well, that makes the ‘failure’ a very large success. So it follows that WHENEVER we attempt something – and LEARN from our mistakes – we will succeed. So whenever we take that risk and volunteer we succeed 100% of the time.

But if we don’t attempt something, we always fail. We lose the opportunity, and regret our weakness, and that moment can’t be recaptured.

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Speaking as a Performing Art

iStock_000003046351XSmall.jpgWhile most people will not spend a vast amount of time speaking to an audience, we all have times in our life where we will need to address a group of people. Guy offers some great tips from a professional singer that can help anyone be more effective:

“Singing and speaking have everything in common—except for maybe really good tunes. The main goal is to engage your audience and make them listen to you, so everything a singer does, a speaker ought to do too.”

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10 Essential Steps To Get To The Top Of Your Field

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Every freelancer can get better, but only a handful are at the top of their field — the best writers, the best designers, the best marketers, the best tech guys, the best artists, the best photographers. That’s where you want to be, if you want to succeed in your field.

Leo offers some great suggestions to anyone who wants to be better, even if you are not (yet) a freelancer. Read more at » 10 Essential Steps To Get To The Top Of Your Field

John Maxwell: Do the Leader’s Math


The interaction between every leader and follower is a relationship, and all relationships either add to or subtract from a person’s life. If you are a leader, then you are having either a positive or a negative impact on the people you lead. How can you tell? Ask yourself these questions: Are you making things better for the people who follow you? Are you adding value to their lives? Or are you taking from them and giving less in return?

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