Tag: Business Building
Your Voicemail Is Full
I saw on my phone that a friend was calling last night, but I wasn’t in a position to take the call. Then I noticed that he left a text message. Again, I was not …
Time To Think Big
As I travel around the country, I am amazed at how different States handle the pandemic. It gets even more perplexing at the community level. Stores next to each other have very different strategies and …
Truth and Timing
I was shopping yesterday for a unique tool. Like most tools, I won’t use it often, but when I need it, it will save me a ton of time and money. Truth be known, I …
The Challenge of a Storm
We had a desert storm a couple of nights ago here in the Sonoran desert. Winds, sand/dirt everywhere, and some rain. Being from Upstate NY, I am very comfortable with snow storms, and very inexperienced …
What’s Your “Why?”
I am very fortunate to have spent a fair amount of time with very successful people. Most, but not all of them came from some version of a business background. I spent a lot of …
On The 12th Day of Christmas
I am writing this from the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, where the only resemblance to Christmas is the (unusually) cold weather. This too shall pass. Congratulations! You have made it to Day 12, in our …
On The 11th Day of Christmas
Where did the saying “handwriting on the wall” come from? Impending misfortune seems to be what the dictionaries define as a general definition. In my CrossFit gym we had a couple of handwritten sayings on …
On The 8th Day of Christmas
Russel H. Conwell wrote a great book, Acres of Diamonds. It starts out telling the story of a weary farmer, tired from the relentless work he was doing on his farm and not getting the results …
Westward Bound
I am heading westward on my annual migration to winter sunshine. The odometer says that I’m almost one-third of my way to sunny Arizona, and I’ve stopped for a while at a rest stop. It’s …