“If you’re reading this … Congratulations, you’re alive. If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is.” –Chad Sugg We’ve all had them. The bad day. The bad week. Maybe even the bad month. Typically, our first line of defense is to look for something – or someone to blame. Most often […]
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington While we all want to succeed, we know success is a process, and not an outcome. If we achieve it once, we know we haven’t found […]
You don’t know it all and you’re not ashamed to admit it. That’s good. It provides you with both opportunity, and a decided advantage over those leaders who claim to know it all. They don’t, you know. They just have ego problems. You don’t. You remain humble. You know the way to succeed is to […]
“Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.” – Anonymous Business and stress go hand in hand. In small doses, it’s manageable, and in fact has even be shown to be healthy. It makes us sharper and more productive. But like everything else, too much and […]
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein We’ve become a society raised on convenience, expediency and expected outcomes. That applies both to our businesses and in our personal lives. While it’s nifty to have information at our fingertips, we’ve forgotten […]
If we accept the belief that we are what we repeatedly do, then what we repeatedly do becomes a habit. Some habits are healthy. They propel us forward and help us live more productive and satisfying lives. On the other hand, some are destructive behaviors that stand in the way of our achieving […]
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay As we start the first week of a new year, the great majority of us have at least one goal that we want to accomplish this year. What’s your’s? Can you visualize it? Do you know what it will […]
“It’s not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W.T. Purkiser It’s anyone’s guess what the real story was behind that November day in 1621, when Puritans and Indians together, to celebrate what many believe to be the first Thanksgiving in the […]
Small business owners seem to have more than their fair share of stress, and as we take that mad dash into holiday season, it seems to increase with every step we take. That’s life I guess. Take a deep breath. You’ll push through. You always do. Unfortunately knowing that doesn’t decrease the stress […]
Everyone makes mistakes. We know that. So why do some people make the same mistake over and over again, and kick themselves for it, while others are able to let it go, move on, and never make the same mistake again? We know that mindset and emotional intelligence play a major role on how […]