I’m sure most of you out there have heard this saying before. It is Habit #2 from the famous Stephen Covey book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” No matter what age you are, let me pose this question to you: “WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?” YES I’m serious. […]
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather is a lack of will.” -VINCE LOMBARDI Professional football coach Vince Lombardi was a legendary motivator of men. His teams set records, won the first three Super Bowls, and though fundamental […]
Let’s face it, every business and every person has to have a unique “message” to separate themselves from everybody else in their world. The message of your business is something that makes you stand apart from the rest. It is unique to you, and is genuine and authentic about you, your business, your service or […]
We have all watched the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with great interest over the past couple of weeks. The U.S. has won a record number of medals, set records, and brought glory, honor and pride back to America – an America that is deeply divided in so many ways right now, but completely united […]
How many of you can remember the old movie called Network, where the raving lunatic TV Broadcaster in an impassioned plea on the air urged people to go to the window and yell out into the streets of America: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!?” Well, ladies and gentlemen, […]
There is an expression in the computer world called GIGO — it stands for Garbage In-Garbage Out. It literally means that if you program garbage into your computer code, it is impossible to get anything out of it except garbage. You know, we all have a computer in our head, it’s called our brain. Think […]
I HEAR VOICES… Sometimes I hear voices! Oh, I’m not crazy – these aren’t voices that instruct me to do evil things or poison the city’s water supply or drive my car off a cliff. In fact, these are voices that I often recognize, I’ve heard them before, and are embedded in the memory bank […]
LET’S GET REAL… Let’s get real: Apart from sex, money is perhaps the most taboo topic there is! It makes people very uncomfortable, whether rich or poor, to speak about wealth. The poor and the middle-class don’t like to talk about it because they are embarrassed that they don’t have enough. The rich don’t like […]
Time is the only thing that is always working against your favor. Until someone figures out a way to slow it down or turn it back then our decisions in the here and now make implications towards a future. A future that will eat up more time than you might care to dedicate. As an entrepreneur, […]
Anyone who has run a small or large business for any time at all knows all about toxic employees. They are insidious, they cause disruption, lack of productivity and profits, they stir up the pot, seek allies among your good employees, they want to fashion your workplace where you are supposed to call the shots […]
