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If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.

I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

Are you setting business goals? Try this:Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.Step 3: Let your mind go to work.Thank me later.

Ever feel like you're always winding up and never throwing it out? You might blame it on perfectionism or procrastination or preparation. You may even call it prudent. But whatever it is...IT'S NOT WORKING. I call this phenomenon "petrified performance." Where you're busy, busy, busy (on the wrong activities or the right activities for too long), and never accomplishing the idea or task you set out to do. You're stuck. Like a tree that once was lively is now dead and immovable like a stone. What once was a fluid idea is now frozen in time. How do you overcome petrified performance? With practice, silly. Everything you do should be considered a "project" because projects have a beginning and an end with a timeline. No more dreaming. Wake up and put those dreams to work by putting the steps necessary to make them happen on the calendar. Are you willing to practice? That's my prescription.

If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too.

When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?

MOM = Maker of Miracles

When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.

When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.

How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you__l reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That__ the way our strange world works.

There's no "get rich quick." There's no "overnight success." However, this doesn't mean that when you decide to start a business that you're just starting. You could start making new money tomorrow. I was fishing with my son and taught him that you can't catch a fish unless your line is in the water. A truth my dad once taught me. You may have spent years learning a skill or creating a product or service that you just simply haven't thought to monetize. Like leaving a fishing pole on the ground along side the river, but not having your line in the water yet. All you need to create a new stream of income is to make something consumable and offer it at a price that someone will pay. If you're not making offers, you're not making money. Get your line in the water!

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.

What does a ship absolutely need to stay afloat? I__ not a mariner, so I can__ exactly say. . . but what I can tell you is that ships don__ absolutely need lighthouses__ut they sure do help!When it comes to acting on inspired ideas, it__ easy to trick ourselves into thinking we don__ really need to do them, but that__ like a ship ignoring the beacon of light on a rocky shore.

People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.