Blog | Ed Carcarey

No Risk No Reward

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As I look back on my life and contemplate what was good, what was bad and even ugly I come to a startling conclusion. My failures fall into the GOOD! Please don’t misunderstand this realization. Like you I wish we never failed but that is like hoping to find your own genie in a bottle to command 3 wishes!

The real startling part of this process is that I am PROUD of those failures! Not of the process of failing, losing and at times making a complete fool of myself but that I took the risk! The […]

Forged by Fire

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Leadership

George Washington was able to take a rag tag group of men and boys and turn them into a fierce fighting machine. They were Forged by Fire! In this case the fire was extreme cold, starvation, disease, sickness, lack of resources, lack of help and they were up against the strongest army in the world!

I cannot imagine the horrors this army went through in Valley Forge as they desperately tried to survive and prepare to face the British. My natural instincts are to wish that no one would ever have to go through trials but then we […]

[Podcast] Cliques

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Grow Your Vision

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Success

Once I closed my restaurant down, the one we took a $50,000 initial investment and in three short years turned that into a $750,000 loss, I received an interesting observation from one of my Mentors. He said: “Ed, you need to Grow Your Vision!”
He went on to explain that I was making the same mistake many business people and pastors make. We believe our calling is to grow our businesses or churches. This creates a type of tunnel vision where our only focus is our own interest.

Those interests being our businesses, churches, customers, parishioners, employees, staff […]