Dayna Steele and I chat it up about rock star business principles and her new book, 101 Ways to Rock Your World: Everyday Activities for Success Every Day. You can make small changes and reap BIG results. Dayna has interviewed and hung out with everyone on your “FAVS” iTunes list. She’s learned a lot about [...]
“You have to ride along with Ricky. Ricky is a bad apple. He has an attitude problem that is infecting the whole team.” Naturally, I couldn’t wait to hop in the truck. Sure enough, Ricky started in on the company, the dispatcher, the uniform company and the weather. “It’s been 118 degrees every day for [...]
Pull out your business plan and take a look at your mission, your vision and your goals for this year. How’s it going? What? No plan? No problem. Just consider how last year went and that’s what will probably happen this year. Only a little worse. Or maybe a little better. This year is moving [...]
I have a big, noisy, fun family. Growing up, we lived around the corner from the McCartheys, a family with a set of kids that matched ours. So, we hung out together. Not all together. The big kids hung together. The middle kids hung together. And the youngest kids, my group, wished we could hang [...]
While she was white-knuckle-scared as we walked to the top of the slide, Zoe experienced the pure joy of swooshing down at the speed of light (albeit slowed some by the burlap bag.) Isn’t it a blast to set a goal, face the fear, take the risk and GO?! Yes! From there, you can go [...]
Bueller? Your meetings don’t have to devolve into gripe sessions, and a waste of billable hours. You can do better. A tight, short, focused meeting can be an opportunity to communicate, to get on the same page, to teach something and learn something. If you don’t have an agenda for [...]
Perhaps you’ve opted for the stay-at-home lifestyle. You can get by on one person working and you are prioritizing children and family. Very cool! However, are you putting yourself at risk financially? Stuff happens. What if you were suddenly single? Would you be just fine? Or would you have to dig yourself out of a [...]
See these handsome fellows to the left? No, it’s not a poster for the film Benjamin Buttons. It’s Max and Hot Rod, my son and husband. These two are the “green-est” guys I know. They love to save energy. They love the technology. They love to tread lightly on the [...]
It has been a hot week, topped off by a scorching Sunday afternoon. I emerged from the air-conditioned office to find Hot Rod working in his shop. He didn’t notice the heat or the humidity, and barely noticed me. He was engrossed in creative effort, making something out of something else…a beautiful, multicolored, hand-crafted bowl. [...]
Victory HVAC’s training classroom Record unemployment? You wouldn’t know it from the number of business owners I hear from looking for employees. “You just can’t find good, qualified help.” Well, that’s just whining. And it’s not true. The world, your market area, is full of wonderful people. If you are willing to create [...]
