To succeed in today’s economic environment, check your ego at the door and embrace a new way of doing business that is about more than what you can control and manipulate.  That’s your ego talking. The Ego Economy is dead. Welcome to the We Economy. This rising tide of the We Economy can lift all [...]

You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. In a financially-strapped economy like this one, a common response to suggestions to grow business is negative. “I can’t afford to advertise.” “I have to cut marketing expenses.” We focus on what we can’t do. Will that [...]

My grandmother gave me a chocolate bunny every spring when I was a child.  I always looked forward to getting it, but there were some chocolate bunnies I liked better than others. Some years she gave me a hollow chocolate bunny. Now I really liked the chocolate, but when I bit into it, there was [...]

Why do so many people go through life feeling unhappy, dissatisfied, and unfulfilled? I believe that, in many cases, it’s because they’ve been taught to suppress their core being – the unique traits that combine to make them who they really are. This is one of the reasons why people often experience a sense of [...]

Springtime is nearly upon us and it’s the perfect season to put your business planning into overdrive. Everything seems better as spring approaches – extra hours of sunlight, plants beginning to surface, and more energy for us as we pull ourselves out of the winter hibernation mode. Here are a few fun ways that you [...]