Do you remember Curley? Not the one from The Three Stooges but the character from the movie, City Slickers. In the movie he, Curley, is having a conversation with Billy Crystal about “The One Thing.” Crystal was playing a man having what I would call a mid-life crisis, and Curley told him he had to find The One Thing if he wanted to find his life.
Billy Crystal’s character is a lot like most of us; we are going through life without a purpose, not sure WHO WE ARE or WHY WE ARE. We have no […]
One of our sales people told us a story about what happened to him at a Mixer. He was introduced to a business owner and another competing sales person, and the business owner asked them both what they did. The other sales person said, “I sell advertising to business people.” My friend answered with, “I help businesses invest in their community, and I show them how to double their Return On Investment.” The business owner looked at both of them and pointed to my friend and said, “I’ll take you!”
This is a perfect example of the […]
The first business we bought was a Franchise, which turned out to be very valuable because of the internal systems that came with it. One of the resources the chain supplied was to grade your productivity. I was excited about this because we had turned the business around in a short period of time, and we assumed that we would do great.
That did NOT happen! Our final production grade was 50%, and if you remember school grades, that is not a good number. We FAILED! How could we fail when we turned around a distressed business, we […]
I joined the Military in 11th grade in 1981 because I truly believed it was what I was called to do. In the 8 years of serving that followed, I learned one thing for sure: I HATED it! Every day I had to psych myself up to get out of bed. I was depressed, frustrated, unmotivated about life and a world class complainer!
That is why I made two radical decisions:
1st After 8 years, I volunteered to get out with no idea what I would do, where I would go or even how I would survive.
2nd […]
