Who is Phil Gerbyshak?
Phil is a writer, motivational speaker, helpful guy, blogger, and lifelong learner. He is the president of the Professional Help Desk Association, works as a Help Desk Manager at a financial services firm in Milwaukee, WI, a prolific blogger, and an overall great guy who enjoys spending time with his wife and his friends, and is willing to help you Make it Great!
Learn all you wanted to know about Phil and MORE at the Make It Great! blog, Phil Gerbyshak's lens here on Squidoo, or check out Phil's Make It Great! lens, dedicated to his first book.
10 Ways to Make It Great! Table of Contents
Phil Gerbyshak's first book
Table of Contents:1. Begin at the End and Work Toward Today
2. Learn About Yourself as Much as Possible
3. Use the 80/20 Rule As A Key to Your Success
4. Never Stop Learning!
5. Surround Yourself With Those Who Can Help You
6. Feed Your Friendlies
7. Dream Big Dreams, Do Big Things!
8. Work Hard Now Or Work Hard Forever!
9. Recharge Your Batteries
10. Finish What You Started...and Just Get Started!
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Stop settling for good...go for GREAT!
Published in June of 2006, this workbook is perfect for those busy folks who are looking for simple steps to improve their life. Get 1 for you and 1 for a friend, and shipping from Amazon is free!
10 Ways to Make It Great!
Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 12/01/2009) 
Where's Phil Gerbyshak?
I'm involved in quite a few things in Milwaukee. I'd like to promote these worthwhile ventures here.
- Church in the City - Milwaukee, WI
- Church in the City. Come visit us anytime, and say hello when you do!
- FUEL Milwaukee
- The country's best and biggest young organizations of young (25-45) professionals.
- Cream City Communicators
- Looking to improve your public speaking? Come visit us at the Cream City Communicators.
- Professional Help Desk Association
- Milwaukee's chapter of the Help Desk Institute.
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- I love the Milwaukee Art Museum, and I get to see it every day just outside my building.
- Urban Ecology Center
- Milwaukee's very own Urban Ecology Center. A great place that is unlike any other.
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters Milwaukee
- I've been mentoring in Big Brothers Big Sisters in Milwaukee for just over 2 years. It's a great experience, and I'm really glad I chose to get involved. My little is 14 now and dunking a basketball. He's not so little anymore!
Make it Great!
Phil Gerbyshak's first (and primary) blog
This is my primary blog, updated frequently with motivational articles and links to help you Make It Great!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byCareer Articles
I currently am writing a few career articles a month for MilwaukeeJobs.com I'll link to my articles here.
- READ to Remember Names: 4 Steps So Anyone Can Remember More Names
- Recently Ellen Weber at Brain Based Business had a great post about Another Breakthrough to Help Us Remember, and closed with a question I had to take a shot at answering.
Can you think of other links that help you to remember in a more brain friendly manner?
I am really good at remembering names, but it isn't a natural thing. I actually have a neat trick for remembering names, and if you're bad with names, this might help you too. It's called READ to remember names. I admit, I am a mnemonic guy, and I love acronyms, so this works for me very well. - 3 Tips to Enlist the Help of Others
- Need help? Sure you do. Here's 3 tips to get the help you need.
- Don't Let Your E-mail Sink Your Job Search
- Looking for a job? The easiest way to get pre-DISapproved is to have a lame e-mail address. Read more about this phenomenon here.
- Making Memorable Voicemail Greetings
- How many times do you hear a boring voicemail greeting? TOO OFTEN! How about a GREAT one? You can have a great greeting. Learn how in this article!
- Don't You Want a Mantra
- You need a mantra, a daily affirmation, for your life. Think of your mantra as the one thing that when you repeat it to yourself, you know what it means and it pumps you up and makes you want to take action and do something.
- Change your attitude, change your life
- In my experience in various facets of organizations, I've found that opportunities are awarded most often to the person who has the best ATTITUDE for the job, not necessarily the one with the most APTITUDE for the job.
By changing your attitude to be more positive, people will want to talk to you, and you'll get more opportunities. More opportunities means more chances of success, more chances of success means more success, and more success means a better, changed, life. You do want to live a GREAT life, don't you? - Change One Thing Per Month - Making it Great One Step at a Time
- So you're stuck in a rut, bored with how your life is, and you can't think of how you're EVER going to get through this tough time in your life. Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." So stop being insane%u2026and try something new.
- Building Bridges - The Importance of Being Connected Where You Live
- As a Young Professional (YP) in the up-and-coming city of Milwaukee, WI, I can tell you that it's very important to find a way to get connected in your city. It's important because in order to make a difference, you need to know who those difference makers are.
- Hang with Turkeys, or Soar With Eagles?
- When I was about 10 years old, I got a t-shirt from my uncle and aunt that said, "It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're hanging out with a bunch of turkeys." I really didn't know what it meant at the time, so I didn't think anything of it.
- Creating Great Business Cards
- So many people have boring business cards. Think about it...Do you want to see a red card, or a white card? I would choose a red card. I'm actually working on re-doing my business cards right now, so my current ones are, admittedly, a boring white, but not for long!
Choosing the right color is only one of many tips that make me want to keep a card in my wallet and not just enter your information into Outlook and throw the card away. So I'll share a few tips off of my favorite business cards that I've collected over the years, and that I'm planning to incorporate into my new card. - Diamonds Are Forever
- Have you ever posted your name to an online bulletin board, proclaiming that so-and-so was a you-know-what, only to change your mind after learning more facts? Did you wish it would just "go away," only to turn up again when you least wanted it to? I'm here to tell you that if you post something online, it's there FOREVER!
Wired Home Weblog
The latest and greatest in home technology
Phil Gerbyshak writes this blog about wired (and wireless) technology for your home. Sometimes obscure, sometimes humorous, but never boring, Phil adds his wit and wisdom to liven up the technology arena at Wired Home.
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Phil Gerbyshak Can Sure Ride a Pony!
Ride 'Em Cowboy!
The Make It Great! guy, Phil Gerbyshak, rides a mechanical bull at the world famous Wild Horse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee. Yee-haw!
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Friends of Make It Great!
A book list of a few of my friends
Tips & Traps When Buying a Business (Tips and Traps)
Amazon Price: $18.95 (as of 12/01/2009)
Managing with Aloha: Bringing Hawaii's Universal Values to the Art of Business
Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 12/01/2009)
Career Intensity: Business Strategy for Workplace Warriors and Entrepreneurs
Amazon Price: $25.60 (as of 12/01/2009)
Focus Like a Laser Beam: 10 Ways to Do What Matters Most
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 12/01/2009)
Vantagepoints On Learning And Life
Amazon Price: $13.22 (as of 12/01/2009)
Learn a New Word
New Word Every Day
One way to get smarter is to learn 1 new word every day. You'll get one in this module.
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