If you want to see yourself as an owner of a bigger business start spending time with people that see you as you want to be. Find people that will hold you accountable, stop you from spending too much time in ‘pity mode’, see your best and strongest ... ► Read More
Get to Guru
In all religions there are leaders that are revered for their understanding of life and their ability to live by the words or knowledge they see as holy. These gurus, saints, disciples, teachers, etc. come with what seems like a direct line to God or ... ► Read More
Three Daily Routines to Managing A Healthy Business
It was a sad morning. When I came out to the kitchen I saw a completely wilted Azalea plant. Even though it sat where I could not miss it I had forgotten to water it for days. Azaleas need lots of water. The flowers had all folded up on themselves, ... ► Read More
When Time is Free – Business is Making Money
Time is free... What do I mean? I have time? I am available? I can choose what to do? I get paid to do it? All of the above! and more When business is not making money the business owner is scrambling to create income and profit. The ... ► Read More
How Do You Keep Track?
There is so much information coming at us, both online and offline. How do you keep track? AND yes I want to know what your secrets are. I spent a lot of years in information (or content) management. Keeping track of specific streams of ... ► Read More
Don’t Believe in Infomercials
An infomercial, aka elevator pitch, is a short way of introducing yourself and your business in a way that will generate interest and possibly create a lead towards a sale. You know, after 11 years of trying to create the perfect infomercial I ... ► Read More
What Kind of Leader Do You Need to Be?
I remember when I was an employee. There was always a check sheet I was running. I know I was a great worker and my bosses really liked me, but I also know my mindset around what I was owed was very different than what I expect now. If I worked 40 ... ► Read More
Think Bigger
The challenge with growth is that we often only plan to get to the next step. Instead you need to think BIG, I mean really BIG. This is difficult for some because we have been taught “be careful what you wish for because you might get it.” If ... ► Read More
No Growth Focus = Decline
You may have heard the saying “Do what you’ve always done and you will get what you have always had”. I don’t believe this is true any longer. With the accelerated change of almost everything we know in our world it is insane to think that we can ... ► Read More
Trade Dollars-for-Hours into Leverage
When we are the ones doing all the work in our business than our business is billing only for our time. If you are not billing for any other employees or contractors then you are trading your time for dollars, as you did as an employee. When you run ... ► Read More