4 Things You Can Do To Find A Job
Just about everything you've ever learned about finding a job has been geared towards getting employed with a large fortune 500 company. The challenge is that small businesses employ far more people, so you're more likely to land a gig with a small local firm nobody...
Unbiased Opinions On Social Media
It's difficult to render an unbiased opinion. The Internet and social media have made it super easy for everyone to render their 'unbiased opinions' loudly and frequently. Just because someone has an opinion, and a medium to deliver it does not mean that they're...
The Importance of Embracing Overnight Failure
The day to day grind and hyper focus on making it often prevents startups and bootstrappers from embracing and leaning into small failures. And modern media doesn’t help at all. Shows like American Idol, and Shark Tank dupe the startup into believing that the only...
You’ll Bloom If You Don’t Quit
I was hanging out at Longwood Gardens the other day and snapped this picture of a flower on the verge of blooming. I stood and watched it for quite a bit of time. I think people walking by thought 'how weird is this guy watching a flower that's yet to bloom'. What...
On The Baltimore Riots
Riot is the language of the unheard - Dr. Martin Luther King
Ain’t No Award For That
Ain’t no award 4 Parenting like Hecliff and Clair. 4 Stayin Up on your grind late night like Jimmy Kimble. 4 doing it not cause U want 2, but cause U got 2! Ain’t no award 4 being calm, cool, collected, flowing like Lee. 4 floating through life like a butterfly...
The Mistake Freelancers Make Pricing Services
Most freelancers undercharge for their services/products. Believe me I know from personal experience. Years ago I had a group of Subaru dealers as clients and sat in a marketing meeting and discovered I was the lowest paid vendor on their list. Not their fault,...
Has Google Found The Loch Ness Monster?
You know, I've often wondered with so many cameras in so many peoples hands these days why there are no UFO sightings anymore. And, why can't we seem to get quality footage of Big Foot, or a Yeti. I'm a X Files type of guy and just like Fox Mulder I want to believe....
Who and What You Really Are
There are things you do when your boss, neighbors, or our friends are looking. You behave in a manner (even when you are not aware of it) that you want to be perceived or that has come to be expected. Then there are things you do when you think no one is watching,...
Trust
There's the I know you're not lying to me trust and there's the I know you won't steal my money type of trust. Then there's the kind of trust where you know someone not going to hurt you no matter what. The trust where you know someone will always be there for you no...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz resonates with you because its every humans story. It's easy to see that at some point you've bought into feeling stupid, somewhere along the line you've lacked courage, and too often you've lacked passion. But why can't you see you've also been...
Hitting The Wall and Your Small Business
Everyone who completes a marathon experiences the wall. The wall occurs somewhere around mile 22. It can be best understood as the point which a runners mind and body both simultaneously and equally want to quit. 100% of all marathoners experience the wall, but why...
Why Honeybees Fly and Your Small Business Can To
Did you know that for a long time scientist considered bee flight aerodynamically impossible. Until recent years they simply could not explain it. In 1934 observing bees, August Magnan said the haphazard flapping of their wings simply shouldn't keep the hefty bugs...
Explorers and Dummies
When Christopher Columbus landed in America he was lost. He thought he was in India, which is why he called the Native Americans...Indians. The thing is that the nature of the explorer is to always be lost. Lost is what we are just before discovering something new....
Slow To…
There's wisdom in being slow to speak, and slow to judge, but not slow to see. When we're slow to see we miss the things that are often right in front of us. When we're slow to see God's grace in others we label people them, resort to name calling, consider them...
11 Ways To Overcome The Fear of Talking To Strangers
Put me in a room with ten, one hundred, or one thousand people, give me enough time and I know everyone. I know just about every person on my block, and two blocks over as well. When my wife ask me why I was at the gym so long my routine answer has become I was...
What To Do About The Broken Promise of The Industrial Age
Go to school, do well, obey your teachers, and get a good education so that you can get a good job. That was the promise of the industrial age. Promises were also made about fairness, upward mobility, and a good life during our golden years. But those promises along...
Albert Einstein Stupid
Mama always says stupid is as stupid does ... Forrest Gump If that's true then stupidity is not the word you typically expect to be associated with Albert Einstein. But if you define stupid as the way you feel when you're working on a difficult problem, as being wrong...
What We Can Learn From American Sniper Chris Kyle – Aim High
Last Saturday my wife and I journeyed to the theatre to watch American Sniper. The film, directed by Clint Eastwood, is based on the auto-biography of Chris Kyle...a true American hero. It's well worth seeing. Chris Kyle was the best sniper in American history....
Accomplishing, Righteousness, and Starting
The Difference Between Doing and Trying I saw a quote a few days ago that read "All of your accomplishments begin with a decision to try". I could not agree less. In fact the reason that most people don't accomplish what they set out to is because they stop at the...