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Charles L Martin has spent a lifetime experiencing hard won sales and marketing battles in the fashion (7th Avenue), film (Hollywood), food & beverage (Worldwide), and social marketing (SoCal) industries. He enjoyed working as an assistant to Liz Ortenberg (Claiborne), Tommy Hilfiger, and producer Scott Rudin, among others. He has worked for Esprit, D.F. Sanders & Co., more than 25 other A-List actors and producers, Rhino Chaser's Beer, EarthLink, United Tranz Actions, OpenTable and now LivingSocial, which is the coolest gig around.

The concept of Anticipation Marketing is his specialty. He loves marketers and sales hacks. He loves (or dislikes) your company. His rants on hotheadblog.com may inspire you. They may ignite you. Either way, it's all good. Follow Charles on Twitter @vendorcloud

Charles is a 4-time marathoner with a 3:58 PR. He also enjoys loads of time with his awesome family as well as advocating in modernist architecture, fine wine, craft beer, master Japanese gardens, xeriscape, politics, and music. email him at vendorcloud@gmail.com .

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Just breathe

By Charles Martin | November 16, 2009

I’m a runner.  Most of you know.

The key to success in running is good breathing practice.

I started boxing class with the folks at @scubagrove’s Cypress Park Boxing Club in LA and again, breathing came up as the main force in my success.

@cooler_guy sent me a post today from Peter Bregman.  I forgot how the Harvard Business Review has such great bloggers, but also hadn’t seen Peter’s stuff before.  One I like a lot is something I wish we could all master and it’s on breathing before you speak and before you berate.

There are a few colleagues of mine in particular that have a constant fight going on with someone and I bet if they were able to just “breathe”, they’d have fewer of them in play.  They’d be spending their time where it’s more valuable.  I call this practice “rising” but you can call it what you want.  Try it.  You’ll be glad you did.

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