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.
“One minute to start!” said the announcer over the loud speakers. I clicked my Nike running watch to “Stopwatch” mode. I wiped my sweaty brow one last time before the gun fired and I took a gulp of muggy, Charleston, SC air before forcefully exhaling. My warm-up felt good, my shoes were broken in, and it looked like the rain would hold off… Continue reading How To Use Discipline To Execute Strategy
I began collecting emails for my book launch a year in advance. During casual conversation I would mention what I was working on. If someone seemed interested, I would offer to add their email address to my list. I added one or two at a time, nothing magical about the process, but the list grew steadily. I had collected my first 100 emails by the… Continue reading The Quickest Way To Get Your First Hundred Email Subscribers
It started as a hobby. It was a non-event, something that happened without effort. Nobody warned me what I was doing would change my life in a dramatic way. It was simple: I picked up a book because I didn’t care to watch TV. It happened to be a book about motivation and owning your work – right up my alley. I vaguely… Continue reading Why I Don’t Care About The Title Of The Book That Changed My Life
“Busy is a trap.” I heard someone say this on a podcast a few weeks back. Then, this past Sunday, the message at church was about not allowing ourselves to be so busy that we neglect our relationships. A double-dose of this idea, that busy is bad, made me analyze my busy-ness level. First, it’s important to note that I… Continue reading Why You Need To Be Busy To Stay Productive
I recently interviewed for a job. It was an odd situation because I never thought I’d be on that end of the desk. But sometimes God has a plan that’s beyond our comprehension. While explaining my previous work history, I told the interviewers about my experience with the furniture company. I told them all I had done, how the company had grown,… Continue reading The Kind Of Organization I Want To Work For
Every group is defined by their energy. In a work setting, this is sometimes called your company’s culture. I think it’s more than that. Groups can be a small work meeting or organized teams or simply a family gathering. Each group has its own energy. Most of the time that energy is defined by the loudest, most outgoing person in the group by default.… Continue reading Leading With Energy
“Focusing on customer acquisition over ‘awareness’ takes discipline… At a certain scale, awareness/brand building makes sense. But for the first year or two it’s a total waste of money.” This quote succinctly said everything I’ve thought about early-stage marketing. Most marketers (and we’re all marketing something) don’t realize that it is, in fact, better to do nothing than to just throw… Continue reading Using A Sniper Rifle To Acquire Customers
Ideas run rampant in my head all day, every day. Many of them are business ideas like how to improve this, how to add more sales to that, a spin-off of so-and-so… you get the idea. This morning at 6:19 am, as I lie in my bed with the flu needing to cancel my chiropractor’s appointment, an idea strikes me worse than a coughing… Continue reading A New Twist On An Old Idea: Customer Scheduling via Text Message
