Don’t Strive to be the Biggest. Strive to be the Best.
There’s an old saying: ‘If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” My personal feeling is that bigger is not necessarily better, and before you try to take your business to the next level, you should ask yourself if you’re the best you can possibly be at the level you’re at now. If you’re not, […]
A Life Well-Lived : 21 Thoughts from Maya Angelou
“If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?” – Maya Angelou One of the most authentic voices for humanity died yesterday. Maya Angelou was an extraordinary force of nature; and although her song has been silenced, her words and her legacy […]
Memorial Day
Memorial Day. Throughout the generations brave men have died preserving the freedoms by which we live our lives.We pay tribute to them and realize how much we have to be grateful for. Because of them, we get to choose how we want to spend this day, and how we want to live our lives. […]
Open Mouth, Insert Foot: The Best Times to Keep Your Mouth Shut
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” -Mark Twain I don’t care if you’re in a business meeting, making a sales call, speaking with an employee or to your spouse or child, we’ve all done it: provided gobs of information […]
7 Ways to Be Memorable
“Where everybody knows your name, And they’re always glad you came; You want to go where people know, People are all the same; You want to go where everybody knows your name.” – Theme from “Cheers’ Let’s face it. Everyone thinks they’re memorable and everyone likes to be remembered. You too. But when you […]
Finding Positives in Negative Thinking
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain We’ve lived long enough to know that the world is governed by external factors we can’t control, and to be blunt, it neither cares about us or knows when it’s throwing […]
29 Quotes on What it Takes to Grow a Successful Business
“Nothing is really work, unless you would rather be doing something else.” – James Barrie Have you ever had one of those moments when a light goes off in your head and you say to yourself, “I don’t want to work for anyone anymore. I can do this better myself’? Or, maybe you have […]
Less Than Perfect
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen It seems to me that we humans are too hung up on being perfect. It’s especially prevalent in the workplace where we not only demand it of ourselves, […]
How to Create Your Own Luck in 5 Easy Steps
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” -Earl Wilson Ever wonder why some people seem luckier than others? I’ve heard that some people are just born lucky. I don’t believe that. Last time I checked, no genetic markers have been found to substantiate it. People thank their lucky stars, […]
Business is Booming
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples” – George Burns Did you know that the highest percentage of new businesses over the past few years were started by baby boomers? Not only that, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 60% of the countries workforce is 55+. […]