How One Thing Can Dramatically Improve Your Business

How One Thing Can Dramatically Improve Your Business

I recently watched a documentary on Ted Williams, who played 19 years for the Boston Red Sox. At an early age, Ted Williams fell in love with the game of baseball. His favorite thing about baseball was to hear the ball as it smacked into his wooden baseball bat. His...
I’d Like To Thank Me

I’d Like To Thank Me

A year ago, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. created quite a stir as he accepted an award from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. In 1992, Calvin started his music career. Over the last 26 years, his music has sold more than 23 million in the U.S. and 35 million albums...
We Have Two Ears

We Have Two Ears

There’s a saying that goes something like this… We were given two ears and one mouth.  We should listen twice as much as we talk. Often this is easier said than done. We all love to hear ourselves talk. Some of us are in jobs where we spend most of the day in front of...
The First Step To The Business of Your Dreams

The First Step To The Business of Your Dreams

The American Dream is alive and well in America. America was founded on the hopes and dreams of millions of people crossing vast oceans to pursue a better life. A better life. As a father of four children, one of my biggest dreams is that my children will have a...
X-Ray Vision For Your Customers Brain

X-Ray Vision For Your Customers Brain

When I was a young boy, I used to read Mad Magazine. Mad Magazine is a humor magazine. I didn’t have a subscription to Mad Magazine. I had to save my pennies to have enough money to purchase the magazine. This meant that purchasing a copy of the magazine was a special...
You Can’t Have A Rainbow Without Rain

You Can’t Have A Rainbow Without Rain

Twenty years ago, my hair was blonde. I had just ended my enlistment in the U.S. Army. The Army had standards for everything. Life in the Army can be a little bit of a controlling experience. I remember during my Army job training, one of the instructors giving us...
Fishing in the Right Pond

Fishing in the Right Pond

I grew up in a military family. My father was a sailor stationed at Winter Harbor, Maine, when he met my mother. I was born a year after their nuptials. After my father’s finished his enlistment in the Navy, he entered an Army ROTC program so he could become an Army...
Be Your Own Rudy

Be Your Own Rudy

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to hear a speech by Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger. The 1993 movie Rudy was based on his life story. Rudy grew up in Illinois as one of fourteen children. Rudy grew up with a dream to play football for the University of Notre Dame....
Embrace Your Inner Purple Cow

Embrace Your Inner Purple Cow

In today’s hectic business world, we are consistently bombarded with thousands of marketing messages a day. The Purple Cow by Seth Godin is a wonderful book about how to set yourself out from the crowd. In this book, Godin states, “You’re either a Purple Cow or you’re...
It Takes Time

It Takes Time

Time is that precious resource with supreme equality. Everyone rich or poor, healthy or sick, smart or dumb, young or old, receives the same amount of time each day. Everyone person is granted twenty-four hours each day. It’s up to each of us to determine how we will...

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