01-money-exchange

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Creating Value vs. Transferring Value

As a business person it is my goal to create value. Value is created when the whole is more than the sum

No ANTs

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No ANTs at the Picnic, Please

ANTs are those Automatic Negative Thoughts that we so often allow to run in the background of our minds. ANTs are the

steve prefontaine

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“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefontaine How good do we have to be?

waste not want not

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Nicole Kidman: “Waste Not, Want Not”

When I was growing up we didn’t have much money, so phrases such as “a penny saved is a penny earned” and

if not now when

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If Not Now, When?

The fourth in a series of blog posts appealing, beseeching, imploring YOU to design a written life plan for the coming year!

excuse me

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Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!

Third in a series of blog posts urging, begging, pleading with you to turbo-charge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for

calculated risk

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Calculated Risk

A calculated risk is a course of action undertaken after carefully considering all possible outcomes, preparing appropriately for each, and deciding that

procrastinaton3 smaller

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Reprogramming the Procrastinator Personality

All of us are busy and some things just don’t get done. That is not necessarily procrastination. Procrastination is when you put

asking effective questions

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Asking Effective Questions

Not all questions are created equal. An effective question is one that is – Open ended (difficult to answer yes or no),

wisdom on the fly

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Wisdom on the Fly

I find quotations valuable because they can encapsulate wisdom. Life’s challenge is to DO as well as we KNOW; in the critical

tightrope

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Dealing with Business Risk

Real estate development (versus acquisition of existing rental communities) is a major part of what I do. There is out there the

live long & prosper

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Live Long and Prosper: Your Choice

A Swedish study of identical twins separated at birth and reared apart found that genes accounted for only 20 to 30 percent