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“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – Bill Vaughan Much to the relief of a lot of people, 2020 is gone.  However, [...]

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” – Theodore Roosevelt There is no end to the list of things that business owners [...]

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” – Katherine Mansfield We’ve talked in this space before about beliefs and [...]

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I feel like I’ve written about belief a lot lately. If you’re sick of it, my apologies. Unfortunately, I keep [...]

“If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.” – Cavett Robert Over the past year I spent (wasted?) a fair amount of time trying to help a particular local business owner. [...]

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses.” – Tom Wilson It’s a short work week for most of you (me too!) so I’ll keep this brief.  Quite [...]

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson When I entered the current phase of my career I thought I had a pretty good [...]

“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.  And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” – Muhammad Ali The video we posted last week has been stuck in [...]

“Confidence is a lot of this game or any game.  If you don’t think you can, you won’t.” – Jerry West We (and many other businesses out there) talk a lot about the factors that impact change.  We [...]

“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture.  It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” – Seneca As leaders we all spend a lot of time talking about change.  [...]