Actions Determine Results

Actions Determine Results

Many times, when I’m talking to people about growing their businesses, I tell them it’s going to take twice as long, and it will cost them twice as much. There is a fascination in our world about the get rich quick opportunity. We want the quick fix. We want overnight...
I Thought I Had It All Figured Out

I Thought I Had It All Figured Out

I was a broke, unemployed accountant trying to build a business from nothing. I really wanted to start a profitable business so I wouldn’t have to get a job helping build someone else’s business so they could become rich. I wanted to pour my life into a...
One Person Cannot Move The World

One Person Cannot Move The World

In America we believe in dreams. America is the land of opportunity where anything is possible. At least that is the story we’ve heard over and over again. We’re always hearing about the overnight success. It seems so amazing when people reaches a viral status from...
Give It Your All

Give It Your All

Things can be exciting in the beginning. Then as things get difficult, we learn if you have the mettle to do what it takes. What if you quit two days into a new initiative? Rather what if you quit two months into a new initiative? You quit under both scenarios. The...
A Never-ending Fountain of Ideas

A Never-ending Fountain of Ideas

There is a huge rush that comes from creation. We as human beings were designed to create. If we look at all the animals that populate the earth, humans have a distinct advantage that all other animals don’t have. We as humans have the ability to create. The ability...
What’s In A Name?

What’s In A Name?

Perhaps the most poetic line ever written was penned by William Shakespeare in Act II Scene II of Romeo & Juliet when Juliet stand on the balcony after learning that her newfound love was a dreaded Montague. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Words...
Life Is More Fun When You Turn Up The Energy

Life Is More Fun When You Turn Up The Energy

Have you had one of those weeks where you gave it everything you had. At the end of that week all you are spent. Yet at the same time you have a giddiness about you because you threw everything you had into it. Take a moment to take yourself back to that moment. How...
Choose Success

Choose Success

Eleven years ago, I was in a tough situation. I was on unemployment. I was burning through cash. I was scared out of my freaking mind. I was a new father with two precious babies, Norah and Claire, both under the age of two. What was I going to do? I couldn’t let them...
The Power of a Deadline

The Power of a Deadline

There is a principle that we take as much of one resource as is available to us. It doesn’t matter what the resource is. It could be time. It could be money. It could be food. Or it could be any manner of things. We will use up what is in front of us. Think about the...
Catching Fire

Catching Fire

There are time in life when one starts something completely new. Have you ever felt like you crashed and burned? Everything was beyond your control. Or so you thought. And then you realized you were always in control. You can’t let life pass you by. When you sat on...

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