What the magician wanted me to tell you.

At first, I was going to ask him about our pizza. We were waiting at a table in a small restaurant in our town. A man in a suit approached and I naturally assumed he was the manager. Only he wasn’t, he was a magician. His job was to entertain guests on busy...
The simple secret to being a successful entrepreneur.

The simple secret to being a successful entrepreneur.

If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to make money. Not a lot of money. Not a ton of money. Not Porsche 718S in Miami Blue with Cognac Leather money. Just enough to keep building the business. And the way I think about it is simple. I try to have 5-7...
Dear writers …

Dear writers …

I used to write radio commercials for a laser hair removal company. The key is to just constantly threaten that, “bathing suit season is right around the corner.” I wrote ads for The Home Depot, Bose and Staples. I wrote video scripts and instructional...

The winners of the 200 book giveaway

Last week we planned on giving away 100 copies of Do Over but we were so blown away by the number of entries, we decided to double the amount of books we gave away! It’s really fun to give people who are excited about the book a chance to read it for free, and I...

The old rules don’t apply to this new world.

Sit still. Stay quiet. Keep your head down. Work your 40 hours for 40 years and get a gold watch and a one way ticket to Florida. Dream about what might have been but wasn’t. For years, maybe decades, those were the rules. Dreams were frivolous, gossamer that the...