Donna Valdes
Helping Others to Create Their Dynasty
Welcome!
Aug 1st
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Hello and make yourself at home. I’m Donna Valdes. And like you, I wear many hats during my day. This blog is about how I’m able to maintain all those roles, while make money from home. It amazes me how just earning a few hundred extra to a few thousand can save marriages, homes, get someone out of debt. With a few simple ideas and strategies you can earn extra cash every month. I will be sharing my tips, techniques, thoughts and rants, anything pertaining to how I run More >
Competence: If You Build It, They Will Come (Chpt 5)
Aug 15th
I remember the movie “Field of Dreams” when I heard that saying “if you build it they will come”. I remember thinking the guy building the baseball field in the middle of the corn field was nuts to have so much faith.
Competence goes beyond words. It’s the leader’s ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how- and know that they want to follow you.”- John Maxwell
Maxwell starts off the chapter with the story of Ben Franklin. I honest didn’t know that much about Ben, other than the usual More >
Communication: Without It You Travel Alone (Chpt 4)
Aug 5th
This was a short, simple and quick chapter and so will this post.
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.- John Maxwell
I just love how Maxwell gives tips on effective communicating… something I continually strive to do.
- Simplify your message. “Write an exciting opening that will grab everybody in your audience. Then you write a dramatic summary and closing that will make the people want to act. Then put them as close together as possible.”
- See the person. As you communicate with people-whether individually or groups-ask yourself these questions: who is my audience? What More >
Commitment: It separates doers from dreamers (Chap. 3)
Aug 3rd
Ok, so the next chapter of our book is titled “Commitment: It separates doers from dreamers”.And if I am going to be totally honest, I have been putting off writing about it because I’m facing a commitment challenge right now, and I didn’t want to talk about something that I was struggling with. But I started to think maybe someone out there may be also struggling and maybe, just maybe, this will help me working through if I share with you what’s going with me.
So, I was part of an incredible team that launched a new company called LiveSmart 360. More >
TGIM….
Aug 2nd
And no, that doesn’t mean Thank Goodness In Motrin….. I like to think of it as Thank Goodness it’s Monday. Yeah, snear, gag, whatever…. it is true. Mondays for me are a great day! And much different than when I was working a corporate job…. I remember dreading those early Monday mornings. I remember chaos, trying to get lunches made and pray the kids were dressed with underwear before rushing like a madwoman out the door to hit the car lines at school before racing to work.
Working from home doesn’t wave a magic wand and make the chaos dissipate, it More >
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