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Character, Trust, and Courage

If I could distill the business life “lessons learned” in a post, I would sum up my past few years’ experience as follows: Character – Trust – Courage. Character. Before you even bother with a business plan, before you think about the financials, ask yourself if you have the character to be in business. For [...]

Are You Running Away or Running Toward?

When you are assessing your next move – whether this be business, career, or life – you want to ask yourself this question: “Am I running away from where I am, or am I running toward where I want to be?” Many people do not think about the difference between the two. Even more people [...]

Live Like No One Else is Judging

THE ORIGIN OF THIS MANIFESTO… Suppose you get just one more week to live. Seven days. Then your life returns to where it came. What would you do? Urban Monk‘s little project of donating money to charity in exchange for bloggers writing their hypothetical “last blog posts” had bloggers brainstorming on what they’d say to [...]

Your Crucial Key To Success

If you had to identify one crucial key to your success, what would it be? That was what Steve Woodruff asked himself one morning. His answer wasn’t the usual suspects like vision, expertise, or connections. I personally was never born with “a vision” to speak of. If I had, I can tell you a more [...]

Rules for Professionals

As for people: Always believe in the positive things said of other people. Be skeptical of negative things said of other people until you have proof through personal experience. Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. As for consulting or advising or business conduct: If you don’t have a [...]