Your Comfort Zone - In Or Out? February 1, 2025 Sooner or later someone is going to say to you “You need to get out of your comfort zone.” In fact, if you are an entrepreneur this will come up frequently. Most of the time this is good advice. Most of the time, but not every time. Most people look upon the comfort zone as a roadblock to success. It’s something to overcome and conquer. The problem is our comfort zone is there for a reason. In most instances stepping out of your comfort zone is...
13 days ago • 2 min read
3 Things To Watch Out For When Investing In Real Estate January 25, 2025 First of all as a commercial real estate broker I want to recommend that you stay away from residential properties and go with commercial properties. Unless you need to make some quick cash by doing a fix and flip, the returns are nowhere near what you will experience in commercial real estate and there are federal regulations to comply with. Now that that’s out of the way, here we go. 3 Things To Watch Out For When...
20 days ago • 3 min read
3 Pillars 5 Friends 1 Vision January 18, 2025 3 Pillars A while back I wrote about what I consider to be the 3 pillars of real estate investing. Turns out they are also the 3 pillars of just about every other kind of small business. Here they are. 1. Relationships Real estate is a relationship business. It doesn’t matter if you’re an agent, a broker, an investor, a developer, a lender, or whatever. It’s a business that absolutely requires you to build relationships. Relationships get things...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Buy A Business Or Start A Business? January 11, 2025 Buy A Business Or Start A Business Is it better to buy an existing business or is it better to start a new business from scratch? That’s a question that comes up frequently in the entrepreneur world. I have done both so I can offer an opinion that comes from having experienced both sides. Who Are You? This is an important question that everyone who has ambitions of owning their own business needs to explore thoroughly before taking the...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
What Did She Say? Jan 4, 2025 There’s a YouTuber out there who does some really great work teaching people how to buy a business. She’s a brilliant woman and is providing a great service. Her videos are very inspiring for a lot of people. She has a course that teaches how to buy a business and she promotes buying the non-glamourous businesses like landscaping companies, plumbing, HVAC, power washing, and laundromats, etc. In doing this she is also helping those millions of business owners who...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Law Of Financial Momentum Revisited December 30, 2024 How The Rich Get Richer And Why The Poor Get Poorer Yes, I showed up late to my own party! On occasion I have to admit to being human. Holidays and family duties being what they are, I allowed myself to publish late this week. Since we are starting a new year I thought I would revisit my first newsletter article topic. Below is a short excerpt from a book I’m writing on The Law Of Financial Momentum. At the end of this article you will...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
How We Grow Matters December 21, 2024 Merry Christmas! Growth - Do You Plan For It? We’re wrapping up another year and starting a new one. This is when people start making plans for next year including all the outlandish resolutions that everyone knows will likely not happen. I don’t do new years resolutions for that reason. But we are creating new plans and a new mission statement for our business. Expansion This coming year we are expanding our business coaching services beyond leadership...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
2 Things You Need To Know To Be Successful December 14, 2024 2 Things You Need To Know To Be Successful YouTube and social media are filled with advice on how to get rich, how to become successful and how to become the next billionaire. If you want to know how to be successful at just about anything, according to the “experts”, you can find it on YouTube. Here comes the big but. But, most of these experts leave out this most basic thing. These 2 simple things you need to know to be successful...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Is Your Business Sellable? December 7, 2024 What is the ultimate intent for your business? Do you know? It’s a good idea for any business owner to have an exit strategy even if you plan to keep it forever. And by the way no one keeps their business forever. Everyone quits their business one way or another. You either sell the business, you leave it to someone like children or your spouse, you lose it in some kind of legal wrangling like a divorce, or you just shut it down and walk away for...
2 months ago • 3 min read