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This week’s post and info graphic is compliments of Megan Wilson, Ghergich & Company. Thanks Megan, for this often overlooked topic of eating & drinking business etiquette!

Have you skipped eating at work? Maybe you…

In 2015, John Lee Dumas made $2.1 million doing this. At age 72, Len Smith makes $120,000 per year. Rob Percival—a former high school teacher—made over $1 million in nine months. Though their backgrounds have little in common, their profitable activity is the same. All of these people (and too many more to mention) made a lot of money by creating and selling online courses.

A great course can sell for $1000 or…

In a recent blog post, I mentioned how understanding personality style can improve relationships. This is especially true if you are trying to relate to someone who has the opposite personality style to yours.

Lets say that you are a D and you have to…

Pricing your products or services in a way that keeps you competitive while turning a profit can be an ongoing challenge for the small business owner. While your underlying costs always have to be taken into account, strategic pricing practices go well beyond the numbers to include proven buying behaviors.

The psychology behind successful pricing is full of weird and wonderful surprises. As you…

If you have heard of Chris Langan, it was probably within the context of “the smartest man in America.” Quite possibly that is true. There is even a theory that he is the smartest man in the world. He has a verified I.Q. of 195 and says that he has scored over…

Christian healthcare ministries (also known as health care sharing ministries), are becoming a popular alternative to health insurance. I've always been intrigued by the concept of sharing health care…

I’m not always the most organized person with my time, but I try. I like being efficient. The trouble is, sometimes when the “to do” list is very long, it can become overwhelming and then procrastination takes over rather than action. Here are 5 time management tips you can use to keep your…

I quit my job at the end of the month a week and a half ago. I left for a handful of reasons:

1. Salary 20% below par for experience and background

2. 1 hour commute each way and owner will not allow more than one day remote per week.

3. technology is disparate and legacy (I'm a software engineer)

4. I'm working on a team of 1

5. The company is not growing--since I joined 18 months ago most of the meetings are about how the company is not…

Imagine you take your bike out for a ride on a hot summer day. Anticipating you’ll get thirsty, you bring along a water bottle, but you forget to fill it. The bottle is present, but it’s useless. The same applies to ourselves. Unless our cup is full, we have nothing to share with others.…

I talk to a lot of entrepreneurs who are caught up in a vicious cycle that makes them long for the days when they had a J-O-B. The cycle works like this: get a client, do the work, get another client, do more work, grow the business by adding more clients, do more work, and so forth. Eventually, the quality of the work suffers because the entrepreneur becomes over-committed.…

Sometimes soft skills are hard and understanding personality style can make the difference between success and failure in relationships.

You are a supervisor of a small department and one person in particular… drives you insane. You just cannot understand how to communicate with them. Their attention…

Owning your own business has some truly amazing benefits. You can make your own hours. You can take on the projects that you want, and turn down the ones you don’t. You can work on your terms, and do it your way.

The Downside

Sending an invoice, and hitting the refresh button on your email over and over…

I went on vacation this past week. Ah, blessed vacation, and all the rest and rejuvenation it brings to mind. How about getting shingles the week we are to leave town? Yes, when my high D personality choose to barrel through to get to the end goal, my body gave me a sucker punch to the stomach, quite literally. If you have ever experienced shingles, you know first-hand how painful it is.…

Some of us are ready, some of us are firing, and some of us have taken aim. Where are you? Have you gotten ready for change? Are you aiming for your next accomplishment? Are you launching or firing your next big thing? Or are you in the group of people who are still trying to decide what to do?

For the past 7 years I had been following this path: Ready Aim Wait, turn and look at that new idea and Ready Aim Wait! Over and over again, I would get myself ready to jump into a new…

On December 29, 1972 Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades killing 101 people.

The tragedy is none of them had to die.

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So many of us are traveling during these summer months. It’s wonderful to plan a relaxing (or exciting) vacation or visit friends and family. But all too often we don’t get the sound, restful sleep we need to feel our best when traveling. There is some pretty fascinating research that now explains what keeps us from…

Several years ago, I attended a leadership conference in Fort Worth, Texas where one of the speakers shared his "secret" to becoming a millionaire he had learned from his grandmother as a young boy. She always told him growing up that if he wanted to become something special and great in his life, he needed to go upstairs and make his bed every single day.

Honestly, when I heard this I thought it was ridiculous. How could making my bed be the first step to becoming a millionaire? …

As a funeral service professional, chances are you have written an obituary or two or two hundred or two thousand!

You would have to have your head in the sand if you haven’t realized that obituaries have been changing through the years. From “Doug died” to the elaborate multi-page document many families can write, things have been changing.

What make a…