The Ultimate Investment

In today’s economy failures of all sorts are in the news. Failure is such a stigma many miss golden opportunities rather than risk it. The fear of failure is greater than the fact of failure. I don’t know anyone who has died from failure. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t recovered from failure given reasonable [...]

I recently met with Terry, a gentleman who’s amassed a fortune of over $50 million dollars. He told of a critical turning point in his life. It was when he figured out that you need to be able to do the things you hate in order to be successful. He was developing real estate subdivisions [...]

Grow Toward the Light — Making time for Personal Growth: I work in a three story office building that has a large atrium capped off by a large skylight in the roof. This skylight allows sunlight to shine through the building, top to bottom. While sitting in the break room one day, I noticed something [...]

Have you ever seen a small pool of water that was filled with rain or runoff that didn’t have an outlet? It sits and stagnates until evaporation claims it and it becomes a stained dry hole once again. During this process, the water becomes corrupted, stagnant, becomes a mossy, bacteriological growth that’s a health hazard. [...]

I drive from my home in the mountains down to work every morning. The drive is pleasant along a mountain highway, then through high desert, past a vivid canyon and volcanic formations, until I reach my office about 40 miles down the road. The road twists and turns down steep grades only occasionally broken up [...]

The following is a simple step-by-step plan for starting a business. It’s presented in 3 parts. Below is part 3. 7. Setting up Shop: Example ““ Joseph started with a used TV monitor, his own game console, and a stack of games he hung on the cart. He worked with the Mall’s designer to produce [...]

The following is a simple step-by-step plan for starting a business. It’s presented in 3 parts. Below is part 2. Steps 1 – 3 are in the previous post. 4. Determine your cost to produce or supply your product or service: Example ““ Joseph didn’t have much money, but he had an inventory of his [...]

The following is a simple step-by-step plan for starting a business. It’s presented in 3 parts. Below is part 1. 1. Decide on a product or service: Example – Joseph wants to open a used video game rental and sales shop. This is a product and a service oriented business; one he knows inside and [...]

I just got done reading an interesting memoir entitled “Seldom Disappointed” by Tony Hillerman, the best-selling mystery novelist. He grew up poor in Oklahoma, was a decorated veteran of World War II and became a self-made man. I’d like to quote a paragraph of that book which caught my attention. He is relating a discussion [...]