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I’m Starting A New Series…

As I’ve stated here on more than one occasion, I’m making this up as I go along. Partly because I don’t really consider business to be the only thing that I am interested in and partly because I have a passion for seeing people live richer and better lives. With that, I am announcing that […]

A Simple Reminder

I’ve been reading Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve Jobs. And, in the book Isaacson hits on something I’ve been pushing out there forever and I thought now was as good of a time as any to remind you: Ideas are great, but execution is where its at. Now get to it.

The Business of Sport In The Error Of Mass…

Seth Godin wrote in We Are All Weird about how the Portuguese government forbid the creation of maps of the new world about 500 years ago so that people wouldn’t know what was out there. Which came to mind as I was reading about the news that ESPN is going to need to cut hundreds of millions […]

A Book Recommendation

I just finished a really great book the other day: Tell To Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story by Peter Gruber. The basic outline of the book is that stories win! If you have a choice between two presentations and one is just a bunch of PowerPoint slides, facts, and […]

3 Things You Definitely Need For Your Business

I’ve written a little bit here about setting your goals. I think that they are important and whenever I find something useful or relevant, I’ll try to share that with you, but today I want to write about 3 simple things that you need for your business: 1. Direction 2. Vision 3. Implementation Direction: I’ve […]

168 Challenge Update

I wanted to try and post what I did everyday, but quickly realized that it wasn’t really feasible or prudent to track every minute of the day. I think an overall focus on trying to set a goal of achieving progress on my 3-4 biggest goals allowed me to keep a consistent forward progress. I’ll […]

168 Challenge: Day 1

I picked an excellent week to do this, since I have come down with a cold and was laid up in bed early last night, playing Scrabble and drinking fluids. But, I still kept the record and hopefully today is a better day. 12:00-7:15: Sleep 7:15-9:15: Family Time-breakfast, playing with my boy, taking him to […]