Don’t Work For The Weekend Imagine if we could help everyone we worked with love what they did. What would it look like? What do you love about what you do? Can you think of something super fast? If you can, you’re in the minority. Most of us do work we don’t love. And that’s…
How to Use Your Creativity to Innovate and Rise to Your Challenges The most important aspect of finding a better way to do things is creativity. If you want to innovate in your work or in your life, you have to first get creative. I spend a lot of time soaking up the latest writing…
Entrepreneurs Tell Their Stories at the Entrepreneur Experience This weekend I attended The Entrepreneur Experience with Amy Porterfield. Four-hundred entrepreneurs from 48 States and 20 countries showed up. I would ask these business owners to tell me their stories. Then I would create a podcast episode out of their tales. I brought my podcast-in-a-box setup…
What are you invested in? What is your ultimate goal? Do you want to gain today or win tomorrow? To answer these questions, you have to make some exchanges, some trades. Will you give up tonight‘s movie? Will you give up going to the bar? Will you give up spending time on Facebook or other…
Wow. I just traveled back to 1988. An old boss, from that long ago, showed up in my, “people you may know,” suggestions on Twitter. I haven’t spoken to him in decades. He’s a terrific guy. He always had great ideas. The company at which I worked for him, conducted public records research on philanthropic…
The Entrepreneur’s dilemma. Do you do what you love? Or do you choose a business that will make you money? I think it works best when you sit in the cross-section of what you love and what other people want. Otherwise, you’re either tilting at windmills or spinning your wheels. So find that balance…