As a business coach, I often help people face their fear of risk.  Now, this is easy to do for others but a whole different subject for myself.  Entrepreneurs are generally looked at as being risk takers.  I don’t agree with this at all.  I think they have come to terms with a few things:  First,...

You ever hear of the expression “All IN?” The spot where we bet all our chips and bet on our hand, knowing we will win?!  Often, this is frowned down upon and challenged by friends, parents, spouses and financial advisors.  You know for the most part they are right when comes to money or income...

There is less competition going for the top than those shooting for mediocrity. The first time I heard this, I thought it was BS. Then I started looking around at the people that really go for the top and there aren’t many. I have found most people target mediocrity so that’s exactly what they get....

In Keith Ferrazzi’s book, Never Eat Alone, he adequately portrays that people who are trying to find a balance between work and personal life have some kind of basic thing wrong in their paradigm. Most of us will spend a major part our lives at work doing something to put a roof over our heads and...

I have been reading one of the most dynamic parables on business called “Greater Than Yourself,” by Steve Farber, Patrick Lencioni, and Matthew Kelly.  This concept has been sitting in my head and has not been able escape for at least a week.  Greater than yourself introduces the idea of us...

Last week I had the privilege of spending half a day with one of the greatest minds in our time, Brian Tracy. He is an international author in sales and business performance. He was so animate about our country’s apathy towards learning. He made the argument that right now the average American spends...

Many of us came through the end of last year feeling a little beat up by the economy. We felt like we were moving our business towards our goals to hit a sudden glass ceiling. This is the six year of owning my own small business and what I have learned to do. . . that I think really helps not only me,...

I don’t know if you know this but Benjamin Franklin started an organization that, as near as my amateur historian skills can tell, was the first networking organization in the United States. It started in 1727 and was called the Junto, “a group of like minded aspiring artisans and tradesmen who hoped...