Make the Most of It!
Time is what we want the most, but it’s what we use the worst. It is said that if you want to succeed, you will need to plan your work and work your plan. When we began our journey as entrepreneurs, we weren’t doing either of those things very well. It was...
Listen Up!
A wise man once told me, “You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. It’s because you should listen twice as much as you talk”. What does it mean to listen? And I mean really listen. It’s much more than simply hearing. It means to actually take mental notes of...
Your Personality is a Starting Point
Creating a better life sometimes requires building a better you. When we started our entrepreneurial journey, I didn’t have the right mindset. That lead to a little overthinking and a lot of underdoing. But, after about a year...
Raise the Bar
Have you ever heard someone say, “raise the bar”? You probably know that statement simply means “do better or try harder”. We have heard it said by our sports coaches, teachers, parents and even our business mentors. When hearing that statement “raise the bar”, we...
Taking Control of Your Life
Sometimes the best way to add the right things in your life is to start by subtracting the wrong things. After making the decision to move forward in our business and our life, we wrote a list of all the things we thought we needed to do to make that happen....
Learn to Use Your Time More Efficiently
We had many different jobs through our teens and twenties and the one thing that all of those jobs had in common, is that there was always a boss or a manager who would tell us what to do and when to do it. We obviously needed the paycheck, so we would do what we...
Learn the Right Moves
We all know that life can hit hard sometimes. Sometimes it feels like a fight that you just don’t know how to win. When fighting to overcome a challenge in life or in business we have found that learning the right “moves” (skills and habits) can protect you from...
Effectively Share Your Thoughts, Ideas, and Beliefs
Over the years, we’ve learned many lessons on how to effectively communicate. Some of those lessons were learned the hard way, mostly due to lack of self-control and lack of situational awareness. Most people have experienced totally bombing when trying to share...
Tips on Maintaining Your Health, Inside and Out
We have a very active lifestyle, and we want to feel good doing the things we need to do and love to do, whether that’s working, going on adventures or spending time with our loved ones. We imagine that you would also like to feel your best. Day-to-day life is...
The Power of Being Humble, Hungry, and Teachable
Over the years of building ourselves and our life, we’ve learned what kind of attitudes and actions have held us back and what kind of attitudes and actions have helped us progress. In the beginning of our journey, to improve the results in all areas of...
The Solution to Pollution is Dilution
Creating a Positive Mindset You may have heard the saying, “the solution to pollution is dilution,” which can apply to various aspects of life. But simply put, dilution is the process of flushing out or removing pollutants,...
Understanding and Overcoming Procrastination
“Procrastination is the enemy of success.” If you think you might be a procrastinator, don’t procrastinate now, because you really need to read this! Of course, everyone puts things off sometimes, but procrastinators chronically avoid tasks and may deliberately...
ANALYZE – BUDGET – GROW
Let’s talk about a very important subject: money. Of course, money isn’t the most important thing in the world, but if you think about it the most important things in life take a lot of money. So if one can learn to be better with their money and let their money...
How to Be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” – Benjamin Franklin Good habits in the three areas mentioned in the quote above help so much in creating great results in life. Good intentions don’t create good results, good habits do. At the...
Fuel Your Success
We believe that everyone has greatness inside. Sometimes people just need to be reminded of their potential. So please consider this blog a friendly reminder that you were created for greatness and are gifted in so many ways. You just need to remember to unpack...
How to Master Productive Communication in Different Types of Relationships
Many leadership and self-help books mention that relationships rise or fall based on communication. When you’re communicating well, things seem to go better than they do when you’re communicating poorly. Therefore, all interpersonal connections, whether personal or...
Characteristics of a Good Leader
As we were rising up in life and in business, we were encouraged to be students of people, communication, and success. We began to focus on interpersonal skills, which included both personal and situational awareness. Personal awareness means that you are...
How to To Be a Solution Seeker
As blessed as we are to see the midpoint of yet another year, it’s no secret that 2020 has presented us all with plenty of unique challenges. Seemingly overnight, many people’s lives were turned into piles of scattered puzzle pieces in need of reassembling. Whether...
Breaking out of Your Comfort Zone
“Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”-Dale Carnegie In our last blog, we talked about the concept of fear (false evidence appearing real). This time around, we’d like to expand on that by encouraging you to confront those fears and abandon the familiar....
You Can Overcome
Over time, stress, anxiety and small annoyances can build up and reduce your overall quality of life. When these factors become overwhelming, they can cause a lot of overthinking that can rob you of your joy. However, this doesn’t have to continue. We’ve talked...
Hit The Reset Button
If you had $86,400 and someone stole $10 from you, would you be so upset that you throw away the remaining $86,390 in hopes of getting back at the person that stole the $10? Or would you move on and make the most of the money you have left? Hopefully, you would...
Playing to Win
We’re coming to the end of another great year. Congratulations on making it through all the good, bad and ugly that this year threw at you. Right now is the perfect time to look back at this year’s experiences and reflect, because experience is not the best...
Step on the Gas and Shift Gears
When on the highway to success, we all are on a different road. If you’re getting something started, no one's gone before you, or you’re one of a kind, your highway may start as a dirt road - rocky, uncharted and still under construction. But for most of us, that’s...
Dream it – Believe it – Achieve it
Past: The Backstory In 1989, I was a ten-year-old kid, watching the latest action film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In that movie, Indiana Jones set out on an adventure to find his father who was on the hunt for the Holy Grail. During one of the desert...
The Power of Association
I’m sure you can think of people you grew up with from middle school, high school and even college, that for whatever reason, didn’t go down the best path. Or, if you’re a younger person, maybe you’ve seen it happen to your elders - family, friends, or friends of...
Overcoming, Breaking Through, and Reaching Your Potential
If you are reading this, that means you made it through another year of life. Wow, what a blessing! Many of us look forward to setting goals to help us improve upon last year’s accomplishments. But in order to move forward, we must first reflect on the past. A year...
Insight on How Positive Words Can Lead to Positive Results
Words >> Thoughts >> Actions >> Results These days, it sometimes seems that unfavorable topics garner the most attention. Being constantly bombarded with the negative is unhealthy for both your mental health and confidence. If we speak positive...
3 Tips for Using List Making for Time Management
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst (William Penn). We often feel there aren’t enough hours in the day, but fail to implement changes to positively impact the next 24. Busy days and hurried nights can leave you feeling frazzled and unproductive, so how...
Quitting Isn’t Always a Bad Thing…
More likely than not, you were taught as a child not to quit. The phrases of, “quitters never win” and “don’t be a quitter” were drilled into your head time and time again. While perseverance is an extremely valuable attribute to have – and one that heavily...
A Few Tips to Help You Be a More Productive Person
It is important to realize that just because you are being active, doesn’t necessarily mean that you are being productive. Your day may be busy and full of activities, but are you achieving what you want or what needs to be accomplished every day? You might wonder...
3 Insights to Keep in Mind to Help You Reach Your Goals
There is a common misconception that resolutions should only be made at the start of a new year. However, this mindset causes us to miss out on all the opportunities to consciously better ourselves throughout all 12 months. Instead of saving your resolutions to...
You Can Be Santa Claus All Year Long
The spirit of giving is in full effect during the holiday season. Food drives, soup kitchens, and gift donations are held by all kinds of organizations during this time of year. Not to mention, the Christmas season calls for hours on end searching for the perfect...
3 Steps to Take Control of Your Life
Most people grew up being taught that attending college, graduating with a degree and finding a job in a field we love will put us on a path to success. In other words, the world teaches us to pick something we want to do, and hopefully, it leads to the life we...
3 Ways You Can Make a Global Impact
When someone talks about making a global impact, nine times out of ten people assume this is in reference to some kind of international mission trip or a certain philanthropy who funds projects in third-world countries. And while these are both forms of making a...
Why You Need to Be the Penny
If you were approached by someone who offered you one million dollars to walk away with right then and there or to take one penny now and double the worth every day over the course of a month, which option would you choose? Most people would be quick to jump to the...
How To Overcome Your Excuses For Giving Up
We all know how easy it is to talk ourselves out of plans that seem a little too risky, a bit too scary, or maybe just downright impossible. Instead of pushing through the moments when we feel lost confused, and discouraged, it’s easier to convince ourselves that...
What Makes a Remarkable Leader?
What makes a remarkable leader? And, on the flipside, what makes a leader remarkable? The answer to these two inverted questions is really quite simple. It all comes down to three basic factors that almost all remarkable leaders have in common—and those factors are...
Is the Success of a Mentoring Relationship Really Up to the Mentor?
Success in a mentoring relationship may seem like it would, by default, be up to the mentor. The mentor is, after all, the leader in the relationship. Shouldn’t it be their responsibility to ensure that the mentee is successful? Shouldn’t it rest on the mentor’s...