I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.… Read more    ~ Champ Kind from the movie Anchorman
I finally got over the fact that Anchorman wasn’t nominated for an Oscar.  What I haven’t

A few months ago we did a workshop on marketing.  Marketing is always a hot button topic from business owners.  We had a lot of great content in the two day workshop but one concept was really well received in our workshop that we weren’t anticipating.  It was the loyalty loop concept.… Read more   

We don’t like to think that we settle for mediocrity in our lives.  Mediocrity can manifest itself in the form of bad friendships, a job we hate and the way we handle the operation of our business.  We don’t have to settle for mediocrity yet oftentimes we do.
Mediocrity is… Read more   

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.… Read more   
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942
One of the most impactful concepts introduced to me is the concept of be-do-have vs. have-do-be.  I suffered greatly from a have-do-be mentality.  I thought that if I just had more money, more time,

… Read more   When it comes to productivity there are a lot of systems out there to help you organize your time and use it effectively.  One thing that people ask me a lot is, what is the best system for being productive?
The majority of my scheduling and productivity comes from the

For all the productivity tools that we have available to us online… Read more    to help us out, it’s often our offline behaviors that get us in trouble.  One such is offline activity that gets us into trouble?  Our mouths.  Here’s my system for managing your conversations productively.
Let me first take

… Read more   Running three companies at the same time can be a little bit tricky.  Okay it’s a lot tricky.  The biggest benefit in running three companies at the same time is that it has helped me get laser focused on how I run my day to ensure that I get the

… Read more   OK so it’s been a minute since I have hollered at my people pleasing peeps.  Today I want to talk to you about taking care of yourself.  You are taking care of yourself aren’t you?  Being a people pleaser is hard work so, with that in mind, I want to

… Read more   What do you like about the idea of owning a business?  I doubt it’s tax strategies.  I am pretty sure it’s not creating systems and processes.  What really drives business owners to go out on their own is freedom.
As an entrepreneur, you don’t just own a business, you own

… Read more   If you believed everything you heard in the news, you would think that businesses are the most greedy, exploitative organizations on the planet.  I won’t say that there aren’t some businesses and business owners doing it wrong but there are far more doing it right.  Business owners, in general work