Recently, I read this quote and thought it was the best way to express what I hope for you as 2008 begins. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you […]

As business owners, we face a new set of challenges every day. It’s similar to being a child and learning how to ride a bike or play tennis. Others have done it before us so we know it’s possible to be done. We may have watched a sister, brother, or friend ride a bike. We […]

Here are some reflections after spending over a week with my parents…. Being in business for yourself is most likely something that your parents didn’t do. They cannot comprehend what you’re experiencing because they are used to having jobs. Someone else set the company strategy, and their participation was to follow someone else’s direction. When […]

Last week I read The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly. If you haven’t read this book, it’s worth going to your local bookstore and buying TODAY. More organizations need to shift their thinking towards asking EVERY employee “What’s your dream?” and then helping those dreams become reality. Matthew Kelly believes that we are on this […]

Yesterday I was talking with a colleague who said that I’m just like Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus left the world he knew. Left everything he knew with all the security he knew from the country where he was born. He got on a ship with people he may or may not have known before their […]