Jesse Cole has done something remarkable. He managed to take a struggling, unprofitable minor league baseball team and turn it into the talk of the sports world. If you aren’t familiar with the Savannah Bananas, they have become an in-person- and internet- sensation playing a style of baseball called Banana Ball. His idea, when

  On Friday afternoon, the lives of 12,000 people were thrown into a tailspin by a single email. These 12,000 people, all employees of Google, were informed through that impersonal email that their jobs were being eliminated effective immediately.        “It’s hard for me to believe that after 20 years at Google I unexpectedly found

    Have you heard of a confluence?      A confluence is two rivers, flowing and growing separately, that merge to form a third river of greater power, strength and potential. When you see cities and towns created from a confluence, the areas of commerce (and income) are found at the point of that confluence

 “How do I make a living doing something that I love?”      I’m predicting that I will hear this question- or a version of it- more than any other question in 2023. The amount of people that connect with me who do work they don’t enjoy, whether high-paying or low-paying, is astonishing.     

     Some people fear change.       I love change. The adventure of trying something new, knowing that it might not work. That, to me, is exciting. I think it’s in the DNA of most thriving entrepreneurs to love the idea of change. And if not a complete change, then a shift from what

This is the last week of 2023, which means, for me, the last newsletter of the year. This final week is one that, for many of us, is more reflective by nature. Author John Maxwell blocks off the week between Christmas and New Years to look back on his entire calendar from the year before

In my book, The Wealth of Connection, I began every small section with a quote that either summarized or enhanced the next few pages in the book. This morning, I am doing the opposite. I’m putting a quote at the end of this piece that summarizes what you are about to read. Now, if you

I’m not sure where you are at right now with your career. This is a funny time of the year, as we head towards the slowdown of the holidays. Lots of people have checked out. They are fried from the work, stress and overwhelm of the last year. For others, this is even more challenging.

 Our youngest son, Dylan, absolutely loves Christmas movies. Fortunately, we don’t have cable or the Hallmark channel, so we aren’t subjected to deeper levels of this madness. Even still, he was pushing Christmas movies before Thanksgiving.       My brother Steve came to visit for Turkey Day and Dylan convinced us to grab some popcorn