Today is Dr. Seuss’ birthday, he would have been 108. I’m not sure any author has had a greater impact on our society than Dr. Seuss. His work captured our hearts and imagination from childhood and the lessons he wove into those crazy stories with made up words stay with us forever. When my teenage…
I was at a trampoline birthday party on Saturday with my six year old. I watched the kids for a while. How they interacted. How they played. How their system of leadership worked. Many adults could learn a lot about life by watching 6 year olds play. Then, last night, I was reading The Flinch by…
Who you surround yourself with matters. That bears repeating. Who you surround yourself with matters. When you are riding the entrepreneur roller coaster, you feel the rush, the speed, the highs, the lows. You run the gamut of emotions. There are very few level areas. Who you choose to surround yourself with can compound these…
Fail forward, fail fast, fail often. All bits of advice we get on the glamorization of failure. Failure is learning. Failure leads to success. Failure makes you stronger. Failure is only bad if you don’t learn from it. Bullshit. Failure hurts. Failure stings. People make fun of failures. Failure is a stigma. In the social…
The average lifespan of a Canadian male is 71. Female is 77. I read once about a man that started this system in his 50′s as a wake up call. I think we should all do it now. He bought one marble for every Saturday he expected to live. Then every Saturday proceeded to take…
Christine and I met at the MarketPlace Conference in Kitchener Ontario. We had a short discussion and I was thrilled when she asked me to be a guest on her show. We discussed leaving your legacy and how you can engineer it. This is audio only but it is hosted on Youtube so you get…
The face we project in public is rarely a true reflection. Nobody wants to be a failure. Nobody wants to admit struggle. We want to be perfect. We want to live up to the expectations. We want to be better. So we create a public face. A persona that we project. We’re an inch taller,…
Quick wins don’t exist. At least not in my world. Everything takes time. Everything takes effort. If things were easy we would all be skinny and rich. When we focus on the short term, we lose sight of the long term goal. If you want to lose 50 pounds and all you focus on is…
Make a list of Pros and Cons. What’s the worst that can happen? Make a ledger sheet. Solid advice, but we’re ignoring it today. Today you are going to make a single sided ledger. Only list the reasons why you CAN. Nothing about why you can’t or what might go wrong. Where we put our…