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The 90 Days « Extreme You » Challenge

17 Tuesday Sep 2019

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Starting October 1st
A Radical Personal and Professional Transformation Project
Turning Your Life Around | How to Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World

When things are bad, it is the best time to reinvent yourself

Why waste valuable time?

What if you could instantly improve your life, step up, stand out and kick ass, bounce back from failures, speak your truth, embrace your quirks, and have a lot more fun along the way?

What if you could instantly change the focus of your company to be customer centered, operationally excellent, and results driven? What if that change organically grew from within?

What if it took only 90 days for you to see the results?

For years, I have been looking for ways to escape the vicissitudes of my life and to become Who I Always Wanted to Be, Who I Was Meant to Be.

For years, I always wanted to escape all the vaticinators of my life and stop believing in all their lies and egotistical and narcissistic aspirations. Unfortunately, for years, I have been living the dreams of my father, the dreams of my mother, the dreams of a malevolent society, the dreams of the churches, the priests, the false prophets of all confessions only to lose myself in all their lies, illusions and delusions.

I was not going anywhere and, today, I am still not going anywhere. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa! I love a good challenge and it is now time to take personally charge of “My Life”. It is time to turn “My Life” around and be “The Person I Always Meant to Be and live “A Life of My Own”. Keep reading and see if you want to join me to share with me and the world the reason(s) why you wish to take the 90 Days “Extreme You” Challenge and tell me and the world everything about your roadblocks and progress.

It is “Now” time to do it. I have to do it!

Starting October 1st, I will be telling you more about the “Extreme You” 90 Days Challenge and I would love to share and hear from you. I would love to learn more about you, your personal concerns and challenges, about your own goals and dreams.

Subscribe to “The Empower Yourself “Extreme You” 90 Days Facebook Challenge Page to tell me more about you and learn more about the 90 Days “Extreme You Challenge” and how it could improve your life.

JMD

Michel Ouellette JMD, ll.l, ll.m

JMD Systemics

Systemic Strategic Planning / Crisis & Reputation Management

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Michel Ouellette /  Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

 

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The 90 Days « Extreme You » Challenge

17 Tuesday Sep 2019

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Starting October 1st
A Radical Personal and Professional Transformation Project
Turning Your Life Around | How to Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World

When things are bad, it is the best time to reinvent yourself

Why waste valuable time?

What if you could instantly improve your life, step up, stand out and kick ass, bounce back from failures, speak your truth, embrace your quirks, and have a lot more fun along the way?

What if you could instantly change the focus of your company to be customer centered, operationally excellent, and results driven? What if that change organically grew from within?

What if it took only 90 days for you to see the results?

For years, I have been looking for ways to escape the vicissitudes of my life and to become Who I Always Wanted to Be, Who I Was Meant to Be.

For years, I always wanted to escape all the vaticinators of my life and stop believing in all their lies and egotistical and narcissistic aspirations. Unfortunately, for years, I have been living the dreams of my father, the dreams of my mother, the dreams of a malevolent society, the dreams of the churches, the priests, the false prophets of all confessions only to lose myself in all their lies, illusions and delusions.

I was not going anywhere and, today, I am still not going anywhere. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa! I love a good challenge and it is now time to take personally charge of “My Life”. It is time to turn “My Life” around and be “The Person I Always Meant to Be and live “A Life of My Own”. Keep reading and see if you want to join me to share with me and the world the reason(s) why you wish to take the 90 Days “Extreme You” Challenge and tell me and the world everything about your roadblocks and progress.

It is “Now” time to do it. I have to do it!

Starting October 1st, I will be telling you more about the “Extreme You” 90 Days Challenge and I would love to share and hear from you. I would love to learn more about you, your personal concerns and challenges, about your own goals and dreams.

Subscribe to “The Empower Yourself “Extreme You” 90 Days Facebook Challenge Page

to tell me more about you and learn more about the 90 Days “Extreme You Challenge” and how it could improve your life.

JMD

Michel Ouellette JMD, ll.l, ll.m

JMD Systemics

Systemic Strategic Planning / Crisis & Reputation Management

Skype: jmdlive

Web: JMD Systemics Bunkumless Services | JMD Systemics.com | JMD Systemics Online |

Michel Ouellette /  Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

 

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Avoiding Procrastination

14 Saturday Sep 2019

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Neuroscience Says Our Brain Is Wired to Procrastinate

Most of us procrastinate finding ways to avoid doing what we feel and know that would make a huge difference in our lives.

Neuroscience says our brain is wired to procrastinate. Our limbic system is this part of the brain that helps control our behavioral and emotional responses and playing a key role in our survival adaptation. Our limbic system only focuses on the proximate and immediate, on the present, on the “Now” moment. By contrast, our neocortex is this part of human brains that deals with higher-order brain functions like cognition, spatial reasoning, language and making decisions that affect our future.

While our neocortex realizes and is telling us that we have to do something about our live, our limbic system prevents us, to take immediate action. That is why we procrastinate: our limbic system and neocortex are always engaged in a constant battle, one that the limbic often wins unless we find ways to take it out of the equation or fool it into thinking it is winning.

The key to procrastination avoidance is to find a way to align all possible future outcomes with our present and actual outcomes; to make something now that we know is good for us in the long run and also feel good in the short term.

How do we do this?

First, we have to shift our focus from the future to the present. We have to find ways to trigger the “now” portion of your brain. Then, we have to modify our goals without upsetting our limbic system. The goal is to avoid our limbic system influence and interference completely. If there are recurring tasks we often put off, we have to find ways to automate them. This way, our limbic system will no longer get involved in our decision-making process and the things we want to do will always get done. The other thing we want to do is to adopt and follow the 5-Minutes Rule.

If we resent doing something, we have to make a deal with yourself to give it at least five minutes of our time. In most cases, after five minutes doing what we resent to do, we will end up doing the whole thing. Once we get started, something magical happens: We realize that what we were afraid of starting is not so scary after all. The endorphins kick in. Our mental muscles warm up. Our limbic system loves that feeling and we end up completing the task at hand.

When you are struggling to get started, do not think about all the work involved. Just give it five good minutes of your time. That will quiet your limbic system and the magic will happen. From there, it will be all downhill.

JMD

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How to get things done

02 Friday Aug 2019

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Things to do to be productive without working 24/7.

I have a very busy life.

I am recovering from a colon cancer surgery and a three months hospitalisation and rehabilitation period following a failed laparoscopic cholecystectomy that went really bad.

I live with a very depressive and depressing woman.

I have to secure my future working as a Business Consultant; a Systemic Strategic Personal and Corporate Planner, a Crisis and Reputation Management Expert.

I am working with multiple clients at any given time.

I publish My Weekly Newsletters.

I publish my daily social media tips on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest and Tweeter.

I engage with hundreds of followers and, I still find time to spend some time with friends and go to the movies.

People are always asking me the same question: “How do you do it?” I don’t think of myself as being especially productive, but clearly other people do. So, I thought I’d share how I’m able to get everything done.

1.- I work for myself

Working for myself allows me to control most of my time and limits the distractions I have to deal with while working.

2.- I am big on process

I’m not super organized, but rather than focusing on outcomes, I am a big believer in developing processes to do things as efficiently as possible. I don’t spend my time reinventing the wheel every time I do something.

Three: I apply processes to my life

My work is not the only area in which I value processes. I use them in my life as well. This helps me develop habits and protect my work and life balance.

Four: I am a big fan of good writing

Writing comes relatively easy to me. I write well, fast and clean. This helps me writing anything in less time than it takes the average person.

Five: I am not a perfectionist

Generally, it doesn’t bother me to produce and release work that isn’t perfect. This is not to say that I don’t care about what I create. I still want it to be good, but I don’t agonize over every word or aspect of it.

Six: I know when to delegate and hire some help

While I’m basically a lone wolf, I don’t hesitate to hire and pay people to help me with things they can do a lot better, more efficiently and faster than I could do myself.

Seven: I am the master of my agenda

When scheduling meetings, I’m always first to suggest the date, time and location. I always try to schedule things based on what works best for me. Sometimes, this will not work and I would have to adjust but, I never just ask people; “When and where do you want to meet?”

Eight: I schedule every minute of my day, week and month

Every day, every week, every month and quarterly, early morning, I’ll schedule every minute of time. At the end of the day, productivity wise, it makes a huge difference.

Nine: I know when to take items out of my To Do list

I regularly take items out of my To Do list, things that I will never do and things that are not contributing in any way to what I really want to accomplish.

I’m also deliberate about taking on own new projects and avoid starting things without making a clear commitment to myself about how much time I will invest in them.

Ten: I am not afraid to quit doing anything when this is not working.

Failure doesn’t bother me much. I view it as a lesson learned and a step closer to an eventual success.

Eleven: The time I put into anything serves everything

I often recycle and repurpose my work. Long form blog posts become short form tweets, short form Instagram quotes become long form blog posts, old blog posts get re-shared, and on and on it goes.

One last word

I am also not afraid to say “No”. I am not afraid of avoiding and getting rid of toxic people.

Who needs the aggravation!

JMD

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Michel Ouellette / Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

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Tomorrow’s Most In-Demand Skills

26 Friday Jul 2019

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The future of work belongs to those who possess emotional and social skills.

In the Artificial Intelligence abundant world of tomorrow, where technology will do much of the heavy lifting, the human ability to deliver compassion and empathy will become much more valuable. While the technical hard skills will remain important, people’s emotional intelligence will take on new significance.

“The Industrial Revolution required muscle from its workers. The Information Age traded muscle for mental capacity. The future will require workers to be emotionally intelligent.”

Emotional intelligence is this capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

As the world fills with more sophisticated Artificial Intelligence and omnipresent technology, human skills such as compassion and empathy will define the competitive edge of workers and entire organizations.

Today, the significance of developing and applying social and emotional skills is growing exponentially. Employers are not looking for the same level of deep knowledge and technical skill as they did in the past. In fact, most of them are now saying they are more and more open to accepting non-traditional candidates holding strong social and emotional skills rather than a four-year college degree.

In today’s world, hard skills have a short shelf life, but strengthening your social and emotional skills will never go out of style.

JMD

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Michel Ouellette / Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

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How To Get Good Press and Public Visibility

23 Tuesday Jul 2019

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Start with paying attention to the news and the reporters who cover it.

Getting in the news is always an important part of your public relations goals and business marketing strategy. To achieve this goal, you need to either have news to pitch to reporter or be ready to inject yourself into news stories. These are the only two ways to get the good press you want.

1.- Be the News

When you have news that will interest reporters and their audience, make plans to share that news with them.

Think press releases and social media posts.

When you and your company accomplish new and exciting things, either launching new products, hiring awesome people, winning awards, solving problems, making your community a better place, you have to let reporters who cover your industry know all about it. Think about inviting reporters to your next community service event or to your office for coffee or out to lunch to chat. Pitch them your story idea or tell them why they should write about yourself, your business or company. Reporters are always looking for good stories and smart people to write about.

2.- Be the News Source

Reporters are always looking for smart sources.

Getting a reporter to write about yourself, your business, your company in an exclusive profile is a huge coup but this is not the only way to land some good press. Another way is to pay attention to local, national and international news stories and look for opportunities to be included in them as an expert source.

JMD

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Michel Ouellette / Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

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Getting Things Done

19 Friday Jul 2019

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Creating to-do lists and constantly reshuffling them will not drive you anywhere. 

Instead of making your usual To-Do lists, actually do something.

Learn to trust your instinct.

JMD

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Michel Ouellette / Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

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Stop Dreaming!

18 Thursday Jul 2019

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Always guard your reputation, even with your life

In your quest for success and power, when you are first establishing it or restoring it, a good reputation, especially one of honesty, is a treasure to be carefully collected and protected. You must strictly defend and protect it; anticipating all eventual possible attacks, either from your rivals or enemies, safeguarding your reputation shall become your main priority.

Once your reputation is established and solid, just make sure not to let yourself get angry or defensive at any possible slanderous comments of your rivals or enemies. That would only reveal your insecurity, not confidence in your reputation. Instead, take the high road, maintain your position, ignore the slanderous and malicious attack and whatever you do, always make sure to never appear desperate in your self-defense.

On the other hand, while displaying self-confidence by taking the high road, this does not mean that you cannot retaliate. An attack on another man’s reputation will always prove to be an effective and potent weapon, particularly when you have less power than your enemy or rival does. Such a more powerful rival or enemy will always have much more to lose than you in a reputation battle. Your own thus-far-small reputation gives your rival or enemy a very small target when he tries to return the fire.

Before going after a more powerful rival or enemy, just make sure to understand and remember this: If you decide to retaliate, this approach must be practiced with skill; you must not seem to engage in petty vengeance. If you do not break your rival’s or enemy’s reputation cleverly, more than often, you may inadvertently ruin your own. Never go too far in attacks like these, for that will draw more attention to your own vengefulness than to the person or business you are slandering.

When your own reputation is firmly established, never use retaliation as a weapon or an answer to the slanderous or libelous attacks of your rivals and enemies. Instead, take the high road and use subtler tactics, such as satire and ridicule, to weaken your opponent, disperse the slanderous and defamatory, while making you out as a charming rogue.

Understand and always remember this: Today, whatever you do or intend to do, a good reputation is critical; appearances are critical and by not caring about how you are perceived, you let others decide this for you. Today more than ever, since we must live in society and must depend on the opinions of others and there is nothing to be gained by neglecting your reputation.

Whatever the situation or the circumstances, whatever you do or intend to do, be the master of your own fate: always make sure to maintain and guard your reputation with your life.

JMD

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Michel Ouellette / Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

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Whatever You Do, Building Your Reputational Capital Is always a Must

17 Wednesday Jul 2019

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In an increasingly crowded market, how can you stand apart and distinguish yourself? The answer: Building Reputational Capital.

What is reputational capital?

Reputational capital is the sum of how both your customers and employees perceive yourself and your business. It is a measure of your actions, their outcomes and how willing someone is to trust or help you.

“The best way to view reputational capital is as if it is a real-world currency.”

The best way to view reputational capital is as if it is a real-world currency.

Every positive action you take, every promise kept and every satisfied customer increases the value of your reputational capital. Conversely, every angry customer, broken promise and bad move you make depletes your reputational capital. Thus, as a business owner, you need to jealously guard and constantly build upon your reputational capital.

The more you develop this reputational capital, the more you will stand out and the more likely you are to build a successful business.

“A business with strong reputational capital is much better suited to weather a crisis or blatant mistake.”

Building reputational capital is a process that takes time. It does not happen overnight. Building a good reputation takes years, but it is worth the effort.

Conversely, while it may take years to accumulate a fair amount of reputational capital, there are some things you can do to hasten the process.

Behave ethically

Behaving ethically is a rule that should go without saying.

Acting ethically is both the morally correct thing to do and good for business. No one wants to work with a company that lies and steals. No one wants to work with people who cheat and behave opportunistically. No customer wants to purchase goods and services from a company that cheats its customers.

Deliver on your promises

It is not enough to simply behave ethically. One must also be able to deliver on their promises.

You can have the best products and services but if people do not get what they expect from you, it does not matter. Your brand needs to follow-through with everything it promises.

Every fulfilled promise represents a little bit more trust from your customers, and every broken promise takes away from your credibility and reputation.

“Establishing yourself as thought leader is one of the most effective ways to build your reputational capital.”

Establish thought leadership

Establishing yourself as thought leader is one of the most effective ways to build your reputational capital. Becoming a thought leader means that your peers and customers regard you as an expert in your field. Your voice is respected and your opinions matter.

One way to establish thought leadership is by interacting with your business community by writing articles and blog posts about your area of expertise. The more you get your voice out there, the more people will start to listen to you.

“Good business reputations are earned, not given.”

Although it takes time to build up reputational capital, time is not always on your side.

It is paramount that, as an entrepreneur, you take concerted steps towards building your reputation. Creating a strong and reliable reputation is an attainable goal for almost anyone willing to put in the time and effort.

JMD

JMDSystemics

https://www.bunkumless.com/

Michel Ouellette / Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

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Whatever You Do, Building Your Reputational Capital Is always a Must

17 Wednesday Jul 2019

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In an increasingly crowded market, how can you stand apart and distinguish yourself? The answer: Building Reputational Capital.

What is reputational capital?

Reputational capital is the sum of how both your customers and employees perceive yourself and your business. It is a measure of your actions, their outcomes and how willing someone is to trust or help you.

“The best way to view reputational capital is as if it is a real-world currency.”

The best way to view reputational capital is as if it is a real-world currency.

Every positive action you take, every promise kept and every satisfied customer increases the value of your reputational capital. Conversely, every angry customer, broken promise and bad move you make depletes your reputational capital. Thus, as a business owner, you need to jealously guard and constantly build upon your reputational capital.

The more you develop this reputational capital, the more you will stand out and the more likely you are to build a successful business.

“A business with strong reputational capital is much better suited to weather a crisis or blatant mistake.”

Building reputational capital is a process that takes time. It does not happen overnight. Building a good reputation takes years, but it is worth the effort.

Conversely, while it may take years to accumulate a fair amount of reputational capital, there are some things you can do to hasten the process.

Behave ethically

Behaving ethically is a rule that should go without saying.

Acting ethically is both the morally correct thing to do and good for business. No one wants to work with a company that lies and steals. No one wants to work with people who cheat and behave opportunistically. No customer wants to purchase goods and services from a company that cheats its customers.

Deliver on your promises

It is not enough to simply behave ethically. One must also be able to deliver on their promises.

You can have the best products and services but if people do not get what they expect from you, it does not matter. Your brand needs to follow-through with everything it promises.

Every fulfilled promise represents a little bit more trust from your customers, and every broken promise takes away from your credibility and reputation.

“Establishing yourself as thought leader is one of the most effective ways to build your reputational capital.”

Establish thought leadership

Establishing yourself as thought leader is one of the most effective ways to build your reputational capital. Becoming a thought leader means that your peers and customers regard you as an expert in your field. Your voice is respected and your opinions matter.

One way to establish thought leadership is by interacting with your business community by writing articles and blog posts about your area of expertise. The more you get your voice out there, the more people will start to listen to you.

“Good business reputations are earned, not given.”

Although it takes time to build up reputational capital, time is not always on your side.

It is paramount that, as an entrepreneur, you take concerted steps towards building your reputation. Creating a strong and reliable reputation is an attainable goal for almost anyone willing to put in the time and effort.

JMD

JMDSystemics

https://www.bunkumless.com/

Michel Ouellette / Joseph Michael Dennis, is a former attorney, a Trial Scientist, a Crisis & Reputation Management Expert, a Public Affairs & Corporate Communications Specialist, a Warrior for Common Sense and Free Speech.

Book a “FREE” Virtual Business / Situation Assessment Call with JMD