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So here we go…on to a new year. January is one of my favorite months. The feeling of renewal and rebirth that this season brings can be life-changing for so many. For others, especially as we get older, <em>we get stuck back in our grooves</em>. Why do people as they seem to get older find […]

Every day we have a choice to be a producer or a taker. To create or to consume, to be a negative or positive influence in your family, our community and our world. Some days we end up in the positive and some days we end up in the negative. It is only with our […]

Did you ever get one of those calls from one of those friends? You know the kind I mean. They mean well, but they don’t even know they are doing it. . . They have this beautifully simple habit of making you feel just a little smaller than you did before they were on the […]

Ever know that person that can’t forgive himself or herself for something they did?  Like loose a job, shut down a business or maybe even yell or say something that they wish they could take back.  A good healthy mourning period for all these things is expected and should be embraced but at some point […]

When I get a team to enroll in a vision . . . for growth or a new goal or new sales motivation, I always start by sharing my why. My personal goal is to ring the bell on the NASDAQ. The abundance this would create for me will allow me to execute my “why”. […]

Almost 10 years ago now, I founded an organization with “giving” at it’s core. Rainmakers, a simple premise of building “teams” of small businesses to help each other grow through referrals, accountability, shared best practices etc. Or as we like to call it “building strategic relationships”. The first strategic relationship of the new world between […]

We have a Bulldog that loves to skateboard. She wasn’t exactly crazy about it though she started. Actually she was scared of the board. She wouldn’t come close to it, and she used to bark at it like she thought it was a threat to her. The process of training an animal is all about […]

Over the last few weeks I have found myself getting to those moments where you start to doubt your plan.  The goals you put forth and wrote down, the vision you illustrated and communicated with others.  We as leaders, as rainmakers, as entrepreneur’s and sales people face the teeter totter effect of dealing with the outside […]

Not ok is the sign of being ok with yourself! I know that sounds weird, but it hit me today talking to a friend of mine over lunch. I realized how much this guy shared about “how un ok he was”. He was and always has been at least as long as I knew him […]