Which people are most valuable to your workplace? Of course, every person on your team is important. But all successful organizations have at least one person who everyone knows as a difference maker.
When things go wrong, this is the person you turn to for advice, insight, and solutions. ...
As I type this, America is in the second calendar year of the COVID Pandemic. It is 2021 and businesses are having to pivot to find steady ground in an increasingly dynamic marketplace. Some gigantic names in industry have closed their doors forever. Some new businesses have rocketed to the...
Many times, when I teach people how to become financially free we talk about putting money away in your “financially free” account. They ask two questions that don’t make sense. One is, “What am I going to do with the money?” That’s like asking, “How am I...
The most important lesson of all the lessons of wealth is the easiest to understand and the hardest to do. You MUST pay yourself first. You MUST KEEP a portion of what you make and start to develop your wealth. You MUST live within your means. If you cannot do this, it...
There were many years early on in adulthood where I felt like my life was out of balance. Despite the strongest efforts and best of intentions, I couldn’t ever get it so that each area of my life got equal amounts of attention. It seemed like an impossible task to give absolutely everything...
There is a difference between a job description and what a person should be spending their time doing. A job description is a tool used for hiring and training, so we know who to look for and what skill sets they have or need to acquire to fill their position. But the real question...
I recently read the book Principles by Ray Dalio, and one of the principles he discusses struck me as something we deal with almost every month in our lives. Here are the principle and my thoughts on it.
Ray Dalio’s Principle 2.2B: Make sure people understand the difference...
Tim Ferris wrote an interesting book called the Four-Hour Work Week. The premise was, if you streamlined things enough, you could reduce your work week to four hours and still make the same – or more – money. While this is a great title for selling books, the reality is...
If I ask you the question, “What is the most important thing in your life?” what would you answer?
My goal is to get you to reevaluate everything from your role in your business to your personal relationships and everything in between.
While I started off with a quote from a...
Do you have integrity?
It sounds like an easy question with an easy answer until you really stop to think about integrity. Most of the world lacks true integrity, but once you understand how to develop true integrity, you can stand out.
The word “integrity” comes from the Latin...
If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room…
The one thing that I have been able to do over the last 20 years is to learn how to surround myself with people truly smarter than I am. I know a lot of people talk about this, and a lot of people say...
I’ve discovered that the number one is the worst number in business. You don’t want to only have one product line or one customer. You don’t want to have only one source of revenue or be on only one network. We get ourselves in the most trouble however, when we have one...
