Vision: Pass it On
A favorite billboard that I saw years ago featured Erik Weihenmayer and said: "Climbed Everest. Blind." Erik is the first blind person to reach the 29,035 foot summit of Mount Everest,…
Review of You Already Know How to Be Great by Alan Fine
In his book You Already Know How to Be Great, former tennis coach turned coach to executives, Alan Fine identifies three performance gaps that prevent us from living up to…
Avoid Distraction, Stay Focused, and Get More Done: Lee Milteer Interviews Me About How I Schedule and Manage My Time
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Winning in the Last Three Feet
If you want to succeed in marketing your business, you’ve got to win the battle in the last three feet. Big companies in your market niche may win some advertising…
Focus on the Little Things
Exceptional entrepreneurs pay attention to the little things. The little things can make all of the difference in whether or not you continue to keep someone as a customer and…
Surround Yourself with Pacers To Help You Break Records and Goals
Everyone needs someone who can push themselves to get more out themselves than they could on their own. Don Yaeger makes this point in his book Greatness about the importance…
The Difference of Vision
I talk with a lot of individuals every day about their businesses and entrepreneurship. One thing that really stands out to me as I talk to people is the difference…
Lessons on Success and Persistence from the Life of Dr. Seuss
In this blog post, I want to share several little known stories I learned from reading and studying about the life of Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, as he…
Prune Areas of Your Business That Are No Longer Working and Are Not Profitable
Dr. Henry Cloud’s book Necessary Endings has a section about the importance of pruning that I believe contains a great formula for getting your business where it needs to be…