I have to admit, I have been a bit schizophrenic about this year’s World Series.  On the one hand, I’m a Cubs fan and I’m not supposed to root for the Cardinals…ever.  That may even be a county ordinance in several of the counties around Chicago.   I’m not sure. The thing is, I used to [...]

If you are a regular visitor to this blog then you may have noticed that I have been absent for a couple of weeks.  Since the beginning of the month I have been travelling like crazy…and I unfortunately have not been on vacation.  During my travel, I have had the best of intentions to write. [...]

  I’ve been driving all over creation for the past two weeks, and I’ll be doing it for another two or three weeks.  Since I haven’t had time to sit down and write a proper blog post, I thought I would share a few quotes. Enjoy!     The days are long, but the years [...]

A lot has been written about Steve Jobs since his death earlier this week. It’s amazing to me how many people were impacted by his death. Many people praised Jobs, calling him brilliant, an inspiration, a genius.  To them, Jobs was a mentor and an inspiration. I do not count myself among this group.  I [...]

Earlier this year, I set several goals for myself that I want to accomplish before the year is out.  Previously, I would routinely set goals and then hope to accomplish them.  Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn’t.  But what I didn’t do is follow up periodically to see if I was making any progress.  That changes this [...]

Today’s post is a reminder…mostly to myself. One month ago today, I posted an article about how I’m trying to do too much. In it, I quoted Leo Babauta’s thoughts about how we are all so worried about what we are missing that we end up missing what we already have. Here’s one of the [...]

I know a lot of people who get up each day with a plan to work toward achieving their life goals. Everyone’s goals are different. The thing they have in common is that they see a future for themselves that is better than what they have now. Whatever it is that they want, they believe [...]

The video above is a film that was made in Hawaii by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson. Except he wasn’t singer-songwriter Jack Johnson at the time. He was college freshman Jack Johnson and the film was made for an art class. The idea for the film came about when Johnson asked himself, Why do people do what [...]

I recently wrote a series of posts talking about the U.S. tax code and how it ultimately discourages U.S. businesses from incorporating in the U.S. and creating jobs here. Here are links to the three posts: Is It Unpatriotic To Move Your Business Out of the Country? More About The Tax Code and Overseas Corporations [...]

Let me brag for a second. I’m really good at coming up with ideas for businesses. During the course of just about every day, I come up with several business ideas. I see the potential for a business in almost everything I see and do. Problem is, coming up with ideas isn’t the hard part [...]