Advisors fall into one of two buckets:

-Those who believe they have all the answers and everyone needs them.

-Those who question their value and recognize their weaknesses.

In my experience, ...

Have you ever heard about how they train elephants into submission?

When the elephants are young, they tie them to a stake with a stout rope that the elephant can't break.  The elephant learns ...

I got an email from a colleague asking me how to find a "Dream Manager."  I recognized the concept of a Dream Manager, but it had been years since I read Matthew Kelly's book.  Since it was still on m...

I grew up poor, joined the Army to get educated and took a lot of risks as an entrepreneur to get where I am today.  I am the one who went without paychecks when money was tight.  I went into debt to ...

This is the time of year for reflection.  Every advisor should be looking back at the year in review; noting what went right and where we can improve in the year to come.  

How was 2020 for you? 

When everything hit the fan a couple of weeks ago, I knew I needed to unplug from my phone and switch my focus for a while.  I turned, as I often do, to my bookshelf.   

I picked up one that ha...

I sat down with a cup of coffee and my journal and I wrote across the top of the page, “If not now, when?” 

I was thinking about all the areas where I have lacked discipline and have yet to co...

The thing about goals is that they can seem like a never-ending hamster wheel.  
  
Many of us who are good at checking off lists of goals know that there is very little satisfaction in it because as...

As I sit here in frustration and sadness at the state of the world, I come back to the only thing I know how to do…try to make a positive impact in my tiny corner of the world, in my little area of...

The question is not who ARE you?  It is who will you BECOME? 

Being a business owner is so much more complicated than being an employee.  It tests you as a human being in a way that punching t...