The Manifesto

In the book Tribes, Seth Godin recommends many things that can strengthen your movement. One of those things is to publish a manifesto. A document outlining the soul of your tribe. A flag on a pole your group can wave as they ride into battle, together. Where are you going? What do you believe? What …

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A Best Friend

A friend is someone with whom you can share, anything you have on your mind. A friend is someone who will lift you ahead, when you have fallen behind.  🙂 I’m blessed to have several ‘best friends‘ in my life ( of course my beautiful wife Corene is at the top of the list) , …

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Relative

When I finished up the books for 2017 and saw that our little company had sold $177, 990 in products and paid out $152,248 in commissions for the year, my first thought was “Wow, I know some people who earn in a month what our little company earned in a year.” Sigh. Then I thought about …

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Sheep Walking

Yesterday when I picked my kid’s up from school, there was a line of cars that must have been half a mile long. I pulled up to the rear and said to myself, “hmmmmmm”, …at which point I pulled out and proceeded to drive around them all and moseyed all the way up to the very front of …

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Standing Out

Looking for a simple way to stand out? Here’s one idea. Care more.  My business partner was testing out a new email service the other day. It’s a company that just received a few million in startup from investors. My partner bought the service & guess what… He received a short personalized video from one of …

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Hidden Selfishness

Perfectionism can be a hidden form of selfishness. It causes you to keep the best of what you have away from the people who need it the most. In the past, I would agonize over each blog post before sending. Was it perfect? Would people like it? What a waste of time. I’ve learned that …

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My New Hero

We all need heroes in life. People to inspire us and live out the success archetype so we can see that greatness can and still does unfold. I found this in a new way for myself over the last few days. Last night I went to bed excited and inspired. And I woke up the same way. …

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The Magic Button

If there was a button you could push, to bring you what you want, …like a wish from a genie in a magic lamp, Would you push it? Each day of our lives this button stares us in the face, begging for a finger punch by asking one simple question. What do you want? Not, what …

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Optional

Many of the rules we think are rules in life and business aren’t really rules. They’re just things someone said we should do at some point along the way that no one ever stopped to question. Steve Jobs Said: When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is …

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If You Build It

In the movie field of dreams, there is a line, “If you build it, they will come.” One thing that used to stop me from building the blog making the call speaking at the event or _________________ (fill in the blank) …was the fear that if I opened my mouth, there’d be nothing there. The fear …

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Useful

What do Elon Musk, Seth Godin and my brother in law have in common? They all strive to be useful. I tell my kid’s to watch to for this quality in their uncle Brandon. He makes it easy for them to see. The other day he shows up to our house and installs the motion sensor …

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