How do you expect to finish if you never start?
As a college athlete, I won a conference championship & was voted captain. Then, I helped build a multi-million dollar furniture company. Then, I chased a lifelong dream by writing & publishing a book (Believe EG21) about the incredible true story of the '05 CSU football team. I love to learn, teach, & question the status quo.
Yesterday I started a two-part series on goals, this will have to be finished tomorrow because I have too pertinent of a topic that I feel I have to cover after yesterday’s events. Sometimes life slaps us in the face while we are busy planning it… This is about how to lose good people. I spoke with three different people… Continue reading How to lose good people
One of the very first topics I wrote down in my idea roll for blogging was about goals. I have always been a huge believer in them and I have always implemented them in my life and work. Plus, every time that I hear about them I am inspired to revisit and renew my own goals for the coming weeks,… Continue reading Goal Setting (1/3)
As organizations grows in revenue, so do the teams that produce that revenue. Great organizations stand out from the crowd when team members are not added to take their own piece of the pie, but to make the pie larger when they arrive. Yes, there will always be a need to hire people that take tasks “off of people’s plates”… Continue reading We Must Have Larger Pies
As we continue to build on Epic Day Outdoors we’ve shifted our focus a number of times in search of the correct match of technology, user experience, and customer acquisition. Do we focus on advertising after we get eyeballs or do we focus on selling to the eyeballs themselves? Should we build a great product then monetize it or should… Continue reading Training… for our customers?
I love to read books. I also love to listen to audio books. But which is a better method for consuming content, reading or listening? I read in the early mornings as soon as I wake up to get my mind rolling prior to sitting down and writing for the blog. I listen to audio books while I’m marathon training… Continue reading Reading or Listening
As I’m constantly perusing the internet and listening to as many podcasts and audio books as I can find, I can’t help but accumulate a wealth of knowledge about productivity (as well as creativity). I thought these lists were dumb and I figured that as much as I see them, everyone else has as well. After a few conversations with… Continue reading Top 8 Productivity Tips
A friend posed this question the other day and although it is a bit intimidating as a blog post, I want to see what I can do. Always gotta push ourselves, right? Why do we work? What’s in it for us besides a paycheck? Is there a ‘bigger purpose’ that we’re taking baby steps towards? Why do I work? Because I… Continue reading What is our why
We’ve all heard the expression, “Know when to cut your losses,” but that’s much easier said than recognized. Sunk costs are the monies invested on projects, ideas, people, or plans that never pan out. A half written blog post is an example of a sunk cost. We start and can’t finish the idea through so it’s left as a ‘draft’… Continue reading Sunk Cost – Knowing when to walk away