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What’s In A Name?
Perhaps the most poetic line ever written was penned by William Shakespeare in Act II Scene II of Romeo & Juliet when Juliet stand on the balcony after learning that her newfound love was a dreaded Montague. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Words...
Life Is More Fun When You Turn Up The Energy
Have you had one of those weeks where you gave it everything you had. At the end of that week all you are spent. Yet at the same time you have a giddiness about you because you threw everything you had into it. Take a moment to take yourself back to that moment. How...
Choose Success
Eleven years ago, I was in a tough situation. I was on unemployment. I was burning through cash. I was scared out of my freaking mind. I was a new father with two precious babies, Norah and Claire, both under the age of two. What was I going to do? I couldn’t let them...
The Power of a Deadline
There is a principle that we take as much of one resource as is available to us. It doesn’t matter what the resource is. It could be time. It could be money. It could be food. Or it could be any manner of things. We will use up what is in front of us. Think about the...
Catching Fire
There are time in life when one starts something completely new. Have you ever felt like you crashed and burned? Everything was beyond your control. Or so you thought. And then you realized you were always in control. You can’t let life pass you by. When you sat on...
Having The Confidence to Take A Step
Each day the sun sets for a period of hours and then the sun rises again. The rising and setting of the sun each day is ubiquitous so that we don’t question if the sun will come out tomorrow. Something drastic would have to occur for the sun to not rise tomorrow. The...
Recognize The Little Things
Each Sunday I like to take a hike in the woods in my beautiful state of North Carolina. I’ve been hiking with my friend Joe and we have a good time talking about life including work and our families. Joe and I are about the same age and we both have sons that are the...
There’s More Than One Way To Eat An Apple
Did you know there's more than one way to eat an apple? I shared this apple lesson with some business owners ast week and now they are seeing how they can make more money in half the time. You can stick the apple in you mouth and take a big bite out of it. You can use...
What Does It Take To Be A Leader?
Someone told me recently that everyone want to be a hero until it comes time to do the things that heroes do. Heroes do what most people won’t do. When a building catches on fire, everyone runs out of the building. Not firemen and firewomen. They run into the fire....
