Maintaining client relationships is one of the top elements of business success, after all, without clients, you wouldn't be in business in the first place. But for many people, staying in contact with a past client is not so common practice. Our clients deserve our attention. Not an email or phone call every day, show up at their house with a casserole every week kind of attention, but a healthy check-in from time to time is always good. Establishing a relationship from the

When was the last time you looked back at your "younger" self and thought, "damn who was that person?" Facebook is a great tool to view where you were, at certain times in your life, and it doesn't cease to remind you either... "View your memories from 5 years ago on this day" (fun drunk pick from your mid-20's) uh, no thanks! When you take a look, though, you will see that even just 5 short years ago, you likely have changed so much. You've grown as a person, maybe in busine

When life gives you lemons, don't just run away from them! Make the best lemonade anyone has ever tasted! In other words, seize the opportunity! Having a business mindset doesn't always come easily, you really either have it or you don't, but it can also take a while along the way to develop it. Releasing the fear that holds us back and understanding the advantages of connections and insights that will help mold our thoughts and develop our ideas further, is a process that ca

Finding your DRIVE is much the same as finding your WHY, your why being the reason you do what you do, your DRIVE being more of that internal pursuit that keeps you going and always pushing ahead. It would be so easy to sit around and hang out on a beach all day. I did this for 6 months in 2005, and trust me, it's not all that it's cracked up to be. I know you're reading this thinking I'm crazy, right?... Well, as most of us come to realize at one point or another along the