Author Archive: Kimberly Wiefling

A Basic Guide to Become a Hotshot Driver

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Hotshot trucks are trucks that ensure small yet time-sensitive loads. Usually, hotshot trucking is required for on-site projects where there could be a sudden need for an urgent supply. Hotshot trucking is essential to ensure that products arrive on time.

Hotshot truckers are trained to optimize the transportation process and provide optimal convenience for their customers. If you like what you year and want to become a hotshot trucker yourself– you might want to give it a go by understanding the essential hotshot truck requirements.

Nonetheless, this brief guide covers the essentials that you need to know to become a hotshot driver.

Keep reading!

Hotshot Trucking – An Overview

Hotshot truckers are trained to deliver small loads within tight deadlines. The term “hotshot” originates from Texas’s oilfields to deliver items from different stations and deliver them to different locations.Continue reading→

BOOK LAUNCH: Allow Life to Happen

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Guest Post by Beth McGill, Thrive Flourish & Grow

Mom’s Spirit 

It was October 11, 2012, at 9:00 PM and I held my mom’s hands as she took her final breath  on this planet. My entire world was turned upside down and inside out. My mom was gone.  My body felt numb. She had been my rock, my best friend and my everything! When  something good happened to me, I called her. When something bad happened, I called  her. I suddenly felt alone in a way that I couldn’t express in words. Then, later that night as  I lay in bed in the hotel room I cried, not sobbing, just tears streaming down my face. I  finally relaxed and lying on my back, I felt my mom’s spirit press down on the blanket  around my shoulders, like she was tucking me in for the last time. The bed moved  downward enough for me to realize that this was real. It wasn’t a dream. 

Immediately, I started out on a personal journey. Was it a mental journey or a spiritual  journey? I had no clue, but I knew that my life needed something. 

I started to question everything! I started to be aware of anything! 

Warrior Heart 

In a few short months, the timing was right, and I invested in a one-day retreat in Santa  Barbara with a coach that I had listened to on a local radio station.  

It was January 12th, 2013. Continue reading→

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Gold for the Win With Swiss America Trading

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Guest post in our financial series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

If you are anything like me, watching your hard earned stocks drop all year has been a disheartening end to an already catastrophic pandemic. I started investing at the start of the virus as a way to protect some of the stimulus money I was receiving. During that time, it has been fun to watch the stocks drop and rise, never losing more than a few points here and there. 

This year is a different story. As of last week the Dow was down .28%, bitcoin was down 7.99%, Nasdaq was down 3.86% and S&P 500 was down 1.27%. The crisis in Ukraine, mixed with high inflation and a still recovering world has caused the markets to be unpredictable at best, downright dangerous at worst. After watching my money wax and wane for two years, seeing it drop significantly in that short amount of time, made me realize I needed a change. 

I am not a financially savvy individual, so when I make investments, I am diligent about how and what I am planning on investing in. I liked the thrill of the stock market, but it was time to find something with a little less risk. That’s when I decided to look into gold. 

Why Gold? 

Obviously, I am not selling the stocks I already have, that would be a loss of investment. But as tax season rolls around, I plan on taking that nice little return, and investing it in gold. Why gold, you may ask? Simple, as stated in that article, gold is safer. It doesn’t rise and fall with the markets. So, while I will keep my stocks and hope for a rise, it is time in my adult-life to diversify my portfolio and buy some gold as well. Gold started as the standard for our modern world. It was the way international exchanges were gauged, but recently, with set exchange rates, it is a separate commodity. Continue reading→

Shocking Ways Personal Brands Will Make You a Better Leader

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Guest post in our leadership series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

Shocking Ways Personal Brands Will Make You a Better Leader creates a thoughtful perspective on the future of leadership development.

After decades worth of studying leadership development and career advancement, there is a powerful truth that presents itself. Anyone in a leadership role that wants to be a better leader should understand this basic principle. Shocking ways personal brands will make you a better leader is the easiest way to command attention from a team regardless of how many people you lead.

Let’s look at leadership from two main perspectives. The first perspective is the individual perspective. This is otherwise known as a personal brand. The second perspective is the collective or team where each individual contributor adds to the greater whole. Somewhere in the middle is where it seems to go off the rails. Good leaders can get distracted when they need to keep it simple. The shocking truth is that being a better leader is easier when you focus on personal brands. Here’s how we do it!

The basic objective in leadership is to get the individual contributors to effectively and productively work toward the common goal with less effort. Turning this complicated task into a simple solution is easy. The right approach leads to simplicity. Let’s consider the shocking ways personal brands will make you a better leader by focusing on personal brands.

Shockingly Simple Ways to Use a Personal Brand to Lead

Anyone in a leadership position may already know the difficulty that comes when leading teams of individual contributors. The bigger the team, the more difficult the task. Using a simple approach repeatedly makes you a better leader.Continue reading→

Drowning Statistics and Prevention

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Contributed article in our social services series. Enjoy! – Kimberly

As leaders, we have a duty to be more responsible than others, even when we’re relaxing at the beach or on a boat.

As such, it’s important to learn drowning prevention tips to help ourselves and others, with what is an easily-avoidable cause of death.

Below, we’ll give some drowning statistics to show you exactly what’s at stake, and then we’ll help you do your part in preventing some of these terrible accidents.

(The post below is an excerpt. If you want to know more, you can read the full article on Happiness Without.)

Drowning Statistics

General Statistics

  • 320,000 people drowned worldwide in 2016
  • Approximately ten people drown every day in the U.S for a total of 3,536 every year between 2005 and 2014
  • 20% of those fatalities were under the age of 14. 
  • For non-fatalities, about 50% require emergency room attention and/or transfer to further care (compared to 6% for non-drowning-related injuries). Non-fatal injuries can include brain damage and long-term disabilities.
  • An additional 332 people perished in boating-related drowning incidents

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Common Roots: Shifting Context – Leadership Springs from Within

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What does a rubber chicken like this one? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have to do with a book like this one?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, Kimberly Wiefling (rubber chicken lady) met Linda Alepin (now author of above book) when they started their study of generative leadership as young professionals.  

Kimberly was inspired by the principles of vision, listening, and dreaming to become widely known in the leadership arena, particularly working with innovative Japanese companies.  

Linda took the same principles into industry, academia, founding a not for profit that worked with hundreds of people around the globe and, finally, to this book.  

Join Linda as the author (and Kimberly as a participant) on Friday, February 4 from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM PST (GMT -8).  You will hear stories of people from around the world who are featured in the book. 

It’s FREE.  Register at bit.ly/shifting-context-launch.

Shifting Context:  Leadership Springs from Within is available for pre-sale at Amazon https://amzn.to/3IHdJFS.  

Here is what Rayona Sharpnack had to say about the book:

“Shifting Context: Leadership Springs from Within is an important book at an important time in history. Research consistently shows that countries who seriously invest in women’s and girls’ empowerment get a dramatic return on their investment financially, socially, and in all ways that matter for a civil society. 

The women featured in this book are exemplars of that important investment! 

The book will inspire you, move you, and remind you of the hidden power that women have to make all of our lives better. Kudos to Linda and Barbara for their essential leadership in this movement for social entrepreneurship!”

 —Rayona Sharpnack, Founder/CEO at Institute for Gender Partnership and Women’s Leadership, Inc. 

These true stories of sheroes and heroes from around the world will inspire you.  They demonstrate how leadership that springs from within brings about real social change. 

If you are a passionate leader who wants to create greater impact do not miss this book launch and be sure to read the book.