I love people, every single thing about them! Their success stories, their failures, their quirks and their ambitions. Starbucks has a saying; "We're not in the coffee business serving people, we're in the people business serving coffee". Perhaps there are things to think about here...

The more I learn about networking, the more I try to apply that knowledge to my daily life.

The more networking sessions I attend, whether public or private, I begin to realize that there are two main categories of networkers - the hunters and the sharers.

It's hard to remain offline in this day and age, where communication is no longer about just picking up the phone and meeting face to face. Cast a wider net and get to know more people in less time and less effort, by joining online networks such as iConnectE.com, Meetup.com and LinkedIn.com

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." ~ Thomas Jefferson

This quotation is so TRUE but I never really pondered about it until I decided to quit my full-time job and focus on my USANA business.

The security of a pay-check is definitely alluring and comforting. However, as we all know, there is no such thing as an "iron rice bowl".

Being a very active networker, I wonder to myself, 'How many rookie mistakes I do when I go for business networking events'.

I guess I am just human and sometimes I just want to enjoy and have fun. And that is the problem number one. I went for a networking event recently and I have experienced myself and others doing so many mistakes.

Unfortunately, I only realized it later when doing an evaluation on myself and the event. Here are some examples of what I think were networking mistakes that night: