by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
“Shoot me now.” ~Typical Meeting Participant I was in a board meeting recently with fifteen professionals who were volunteering their time to the betterment of their city. There was no agenda for this meeting. We were there for two and a half hours. It...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Are you a small business owner? Do you feel like you are spinning your wheels some days? In this high-energy interview in the heart of historic Savannah, GA, Marjorie Young of Carriage Trade PR gets Dr. Melissa Gratias to reveal three things that small business owners...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Ten years ago, I took a leap of faith and quit my upwardly-mobile corporate job to become a professional organizer. If you watched HGTV or TLC at the time, you probably saw a dozen shows about people cleaning up their houses. I wanted to clean up businesses. ...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Setting a goal is one of the most powerful ways to change your life. Why? Because goals help direct your actions toward a desired target. Goals create a gap between who you are and who you want to be. A goal to which you are committed will motivate you to...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
At the beginning of the year, I sat down for an interview on goal setting with Brandon Lewis, Founder and Mentor-in-Chief at The Academy for Professional Painting Contractors and publisher of Painters Weekly, a magazine for painting contractors. Dust off your...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
At a productivity seminar I delivered for a client recently, a man approached me afterwards with a question. Those of us who facilitate training courses understand that these post-class conversations are often the most rewarding parts of being a public speaker....
