Goal Setting

This afternoon Ed and I took Mr. President, our English Bulldog, on what should have been a short walk — 30 minutes. We’d be back and I’d be able to finish the week off with a list nearly completed. Well, April showers bring dirty English Bulldogs. The trail we took offered Mr. President with the […]

At the beginning of my professional career, I spent some time as a UPS package car driver while  going to night school to earn my MBA.  Among the many things that I learned from that experience besides safe driving habits, was to be efficient with my time.  The object of each day was to run […]

One of my clients, Kelsey Cottrell Realty Group, is owned by a dynamic duo – Kevin Cottrell and Stephanie Combs. They are the leading independently owned residential real estate agency in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Their approach to residential real estate is setting the local real estate market on its ear. They are trailblazers […]

When an entrepreneur launches a business, part of the planning process involves developing an exit strategy. Sounds odd to decide how to exit a business before it is launched but you need to think long-term, and best and worst case scenarios. Planning an exit strategy for the business made me begin thinking about exit strategies […]

This morning as I was on the stairmaster reading the November 2009 issue of Shape Magazine, when I came across a monthly column “Mantra of the Month” by Jared Matthew Weiss. The title caught my attention, “I have to work for what I deserve.” In the short piece, Weiss challenges readers to identify one area […]

There are many great self-help books, blogs, YouTube videos, magazines, inspirational Web sites, and other myriad of sources to get yourself motivated to accomplish your daily routine or long-term goals. We read, watch and listen to these sources to help get us going. With all the information available, why do so many people still seem […]