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Why Do We Give Up So Easily?
In a word – DISCOMFORT. We don’t like it. We prefer COMFORT. Anytime we start feeling UNCOMFORTABLE we quit-stop-throw in the towel – you get the picture. Ideas make us interesting. Decisions make us bold. But only action makes us great! – Jeff Shore I love talking and sharing ideas. It makes me feel as…
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Everyday we need to remember WHO WE ARE and what are our intentions
About one week ago, I put together a manifesto to be referred to daily. On page 1 I described: my purpose – to show entrepreneurs that LIFE and BUSINESS can be BETTER and better than they’ve come to expect; that they can overcome under-earning and create a business that aligns with WHO they are and…
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If Your Business Plan & Model are Based on Fictitious Assumptions You’re Finished BEFORE You Even Start!
So many great ideas out there but none are getting implemented because the banks won’t lend and investors won’t invest. The world has never been without dreamers. Everyone has a great idea and most think that all it takes is MONEY to get it done. We fixate, we obsess on money. Even non-profits experience this…
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The Royal Historian of Oz Illustrates the Power of Focus
Found myself the most wonderful present: The Classic 1900 Edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum with Pictures by W.W. Denslow. Lyman Frank Baum was 44 years old in the fall of 1900 when the book went on sale. He had quite a bit going on: newspaper reporter in New York,…
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If you Owned the Company, would you want “you” Working for You?
As we near the end of year, this is a great question to contemplate; a wonderful way to step back and assess your own performance. I recently read about a young woman who was asked “How would you like to be remembered? What would you want to be known for?” As she contemplated those questions…
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What Do You Believe Stands Between You And Making More Money?
If you have a relationship with nothing else in the physical world, you will have a relationship with money. Go through the day and notice how almost every moment of every day is intimately connected with either the getting or spending of money. In her book “The Energy of Money Dr. Maria Nemeth shares “Money…
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Why Outside the Box Thinking Has Led to Inside the Box Stagnation
Thinking outside the box (also thinking out of the box or thinking beyond the box), is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel or creative thinking. The term is thought to derive from management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s challenging their clients…
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What is Your Amazing Unfathomable Gift?
THE quest to find one’s purpose is exhausting. I know because for a long time I was not only exhausted but frustrated trying to find mine. It seemed everyone else on planet earth had found theirs except me. But then as I talked to more and more people, I realized that I had PLENTY company. In looking…
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You Don’t Have to Leave Your Job to Become the CEO of Your Destiny
“Sometimes it just takes the right attitude and the confidence to know that the old way isn’t necessarily the right way – and the belief that better days are ahead.” This quote by Maynard Webb, bestselling author of the book *Rebooting Work* is truly inspiring. His book focuses on how work models developed a…
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Not Producing Results? You Might Be Out of Alignment on the Inside
There’s a quote I absolutely love by well known marketing strategist Beth A Grant where she says “No amount of marketing is ever going to make up for being out of alignment on the inside.” If you’re not getting consistent results in your life, this may very well be the case. You are not in…

