Four Questions You Can Ask To Re-Frame Difficulties. Business is hard sometimes. Life is hard sometimes. Even so, the “best of the best” seem to find ways to turn those hardships into opportunities. Isn’t that hard too? Not necessarily. Often, we limit our own capabilities simply by focusing on the problem. My wife and I each brought 3 children into our marriage (that’s 6 kids between us). There are “parenting tracks” that are on replay […]

It is time to stop the glorification of busyness. Being busy does not mean we are important, successful, respectable, or even productive. Busyness is a lazy conversation tool and an indicator that priorities are out of alignment. (I’m preaching to myself here too.) When we say we are too busy for something that is important or valuable, we are being a “prioritease”. We are insinuating that our “busyness” is a higher priority than the opportunity […]

Entrepreneurship tends to be an isolating experience. Even for a small business with many employees, decisions fall to the owner; that can be heavy, and it can feel lonely. Community is crucial to combat this isolation. A community of other entrepreneurs can also facilitate accountability.  Why is self-imposed accountability so important? Not only does involving others in our leadership reign us in when necessary, but it also provides for better direction (their advice), an outside […]