Business owners will do anything for attention. Attention, we’re told, builds brands. The more eyes we can get on our business, the more business we’ll have. Look at me, will you! But there’s a fine line that we’ve got to be aware of; a threshold that we don’t want to cross. We don’t want to be seen as selling out …

Do we have any idea how much time we waste each day? Looking at social media. Browsing the web. Checking our emails. Flipping the channels. Scanning our messages. Watching another cat video… Hours and hours each day. Depending on which study we look at, we waste about 2-3 hours every day doing things that don’t help our bottom line. Figuring …

Too much information. It’s all around us. We can never catch up. Too much to see on social media. Too many series to ever watch. Too much email, too many messages, and countless voicemails in our inbox. It’s all just too much. So, what can we do? We can only do what we can do. Figure out exactly what must …

Things go wrong all the time. If we could make a career out of problems, we’d all be millionaires! When faced with our seemingly never-ending predicaments, we’ve got an important choice to make. Do we simply jump into action, responding to the problem and putting out the fire, or do we try something different? We can take the path of …

We’ve all got things that we know we should be doing. Our “to-do list” is overflowing with items screaming out for fulfillment. We know they’re there. We know exactly what we should be doing. We’re inundated with reasons why they should get done. And yet, somehow, we still haven’t done them, even though we’re making things worse by putting them …

People are always clamoring for more. More rules so that everyone knows what they’re supposed to be doing. More training so that those people will follow the rules. More oversight, so we can enforce these rules. More, more, more. The question then becomes, does more really work? Does pushing more, dictating more, mandating more, compelling more actually do anything? Will …

Many successful business owners couldn’t care less about the people they serve. They don’t take time to talk to them. They won’t slow down to ask any questions. They aren’t worried a bit about their fears, wants, or needs. They don’t treat them like another person, simply as another paycheck. We may wonder how they ever got to be successful …

Failure is scary. We might get called out. We might look like a fool. We might become a laughing stock. We might embarrass ourselves in front of someone. We might end up regretting it for a long, long time. Many of us choose to simply remain safely mired in the status quo rather than run the risk of failing. But, …

Think back to the last time you really had a great time doing your job. Everyone involved was happy. There were no unexpected hiccups. Things went off without a hitch. You enjoyed yourself. The clients and everyone else involved were pleased with the results. Time really flew by while you were working, and people reached out afterwards to let you …

It’s a race we can’t possible ever win, but that doesn’t keep almost everyone from trying. No matter how cheap we make our products; No matter how little we do for our customers; No matter how close to the minimum standards we tread; No matter how much we try to squeeze out of less and less, There’s always someone else …