Lesson Learned from Changing the Plan that Will Help You

Lesson Learned from Changing the Plan that Will Help You

As a kid growing up in Maryland I was born with a lacrosse stick in my hand. It’s a thing like basketball and football are in the midwest. ​ There were no participation trophies, it was game on to win from your elementary school team, to 7-8th grade, to high...
Getting Out of Your Own Way

Getting Out of Your Own Way

A king wanted to pick the wisest man among his subjects to be his prime minister. When the search finally narrowed down to three men, he decided to put them to the supreme test. He placed them together in a room in the palace. On the room door he had a lock installed...
Love, Loss and Customer Service

Love, Loss and Customer Service

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss. It’s great advice and so true, but hard as heck to do sometimes. My wife Ivette wrote that this past week as we both we lost a piece of our heart. Ivette found Zippy fifteen and a half years ago at...
A Marketing Plan That Fits on a Note Card

A Marketing Plan That Fits on a Note Card

The quest to make things less complicated, short, but useful, is one I’ve been on since embarking on writing a book. Well, correction, for lifetime. And… When you come across something so simple and useful it’s refreshing. I read a version of the below Marketing Plan...
How Do You Compare to Your Peers?

How Do You Compare to Your Peers?

The Inc 5000 for 2022 was recently released. Every year they survey Founders and CEO’s and ask them a host of questions ranging from what they say their biggest challenges are to what scares them the most. Below are some highlights from the survey this year. I bolded...
An Honest Look at Inflation

An Honest Look at Inflation

All the news articles you read are reporting that inflation is going through the roof and the world is about to end. Those headlines will earn clicks, but are they true? I set out to discover for myself if what the news is reporting is true. I went to the source, the...