Have you ever been on the wrong side of “good advice”, if you have then you will know exactly what I’m talking about. In general, people always want to help and often it ends up hurting more than helping while and giving us an ear full of their “good advice”. People learn best when they solve their own problems. As they say… Its not the kill.. it’s the thrill of the chase and learning is best done banging your own head against that wall.
Giving advice can be a very touchy subject; you need to take the person on the receiving side into consideration. You have heard the …
Have I ever mentioned my distaste for the words try or trying? To me the word try means that the person speaking never intends on keeping their promises, and therefore they are flat out lying about whatever matter they were promising to “try” and do. I have previously heard the saying: “Trying is the first step towards failure”, which I believe to be true.
There is a distinct difference between trying …
Have you ever even tried to place yourself in a garbage man’s shoes? Most people haven’t. In general, we tend to look down upon garbage man, thinking of it as “lower level job”. However, as I was leaving my house the other morning, I was watching the garbage workers running up and down, collecting the garbage cans, and then hustling back. Their enthusiasm surprised me, and at the same time made me think about the whole matter. What is it …
Today we spend more and more time pushing ourselves to climb the corporate ladder, and double our yearly income. We rush from one appointment to another, having such overloaded schedules that we hardly have time for our families, or ourselves. Without even noticing, we start neglecting ourselves, pushing our own needs to the back. The only thing that takes priority is business deadlines, our own personal needs long forgotten. Now being an entrepreneur myself, I understand the importance of networking, promoting your company, and generally going the extra mile in order to reach you goals; however, your business shouldn’t be the only thing that takes priority in …
Here is an example of how not treat customers. In fact in an example of how to work yourself out of business today.. Lets face facts. I always try and do the right thing. Especially today because with the internet you never know who you could piss off and YOUR company could get a well placed and high ranking blog post like this….
I recently went to Lowes and purchased a fancy new lock. Its pretty damn cool. It has an electronic keypad so that i can input codes, The company that made it.. Schlage . Sounds like a reputable name doesn’t it? I’m sure they have been around for awhile.. I’d just but, i just don’t care how long schlage …
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Change happens to all of us, and more often than not, it comes at the most inconvenient of times. Being a businessperson myself, I’ve been thrown off schedule due to unexpected changes that pops up in my life. How we handle those changes is what matters in the end. Being human, we cringe away from change because of the conditioning we have had from a young age. Our perception of change is completely negative, …
I was sitting on my couch this morning wrapped up in my snuggie (it was a left over from thursday nights snuggie bar crawl with 40 of my closest friends) and reading forbes, some industry info, and other things. It struck me that a good part of my job as CEO is simply to know my shit and be a super sponge for info.
Knowledge is power.
If your going to be good at business that means you always need to get better at business. Take time to read, listen, learn, and ask wise people what they think, and make sure to ask questions.
My grandfather survived the great depression. …
Whether it be buying a house or choosing a spouse or your career path, it is imperative to think ahead and to make sure that the path you choose is one that you like, and more importantly, one that you want to stay on. As a writer, I oftentimes have to consider not what I want to write about, but ultimately, what will engage my reader. With all of my work, be it blogging, article writing or public speaking, I have to make sure that I have that special spark that keeps my audience interested, that will make people come to attend my speaking events and that will also encourage them to continue …
Some of the biggest obstacles when you want to get things done are your friends. You’re friends can be terrible when it comes to your success. Most often than not your friends are the people that say, “hey let’s go grab that beer, hey let’s have a good time, hey let’s take a trip, hey let’s go do this or that.”
Friends can certainly be a distraction to your success. Now, should you get rid of your friends? Absolutely not, your friends are what keep you sane and keep you grounded …
I’m not the kind of guy who keeps an 9 to 5 job, or five days a week job schedule, but what I do have is the capacity to produce great amounts of work when needed. What we have to understand is that most of the people who made their fortunes did not work for a company but made their fortune on their own.
Here’s a good story that I heard but is unsubstantiated. Its about Ted Turner and his working habits….
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