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Small Business Matchmaking: The Entrepreneur and the Accountant
Guest post by Brittany Fisher You have a great product idea and the marketing experience to get that product into the hands of the people willing to pay for it. You have enough savings to self-fund your entrepreneurial effort until your product gets to market. You’ve...
The Will To Prepare
There’s one word that comes to my mind when I think of Dave Jenks. Wisdom. There are special moments in life when you get to meet someone who is a force for good in the world. This week Dave shared a valuable piece of wisdom with me and the other people attending his...
What The World Really Cares About
Next time you look at another person, ask yourself the following question: What does that person care about? Then pause and listen to the answer that comes to your mind. Do they care about you? Maybe. Most people care about themselves more than they care about anyone...
Recognize When You Are Successful
Have you ever one of those weeks where you did everything you could and yet you didn’t reach your goals? Let me ask you a question. How did you react at missing the mark? What was the cause of you “shortcoming”? Did you put everything into it? Or… Did you have the...
Actions Determine Results
Many times, when I’m talking to people about growing their businesses, I tell them it’s going to take twice as long, and it will cost them twice as much. There is a fascination in our world about the get rich quick opportunity. We want the quick fix. We want overnight...
I Thought I Had It All Figured Out
I was a broke, unemployed accountant trying to build a business from nothing. I really wanted to start a profitable business so I wouldn't have to get a job helping build someone else's business so they could become rich. I wanted to pour my life into a business that...
One Person Cannot Move The World
In America we believe in dreams. America is the land of opportunity where anything is possible. At least that is the story we’ve heard over and over again. We’re always hearing about the overnight success. It seems so amazing when people reaches a viral status from...
Give It Your All
Things can be exciting in the beginning. Then as things get difficult, we learn if you have the mettle to do what it takes. What if you quit two days into a new initiative? Rather what if you quit two months into a new initiative? You quit under both scenarios. The...
A Never-ending Fountain of Ideas
There is a huge rush that comes from creation. We as human beings were designed to create. If we look at all the animals that populate the earth, humans have a distinct advantage that all other animals don’t have. We as humans have the ability to create. The ability...