Cheese & Crackers or Pancakes & Syrup?

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After a recent & rare snow day here in South Carolina (after snowball fights & snow wrestling with the kids!), I spent the evening inside, having a pancake party with my kids. As we made pancakes (and a mess!) together, I figured I’d snack on some cheese & crackers.
Interesting thought dawned on me…Nothing wrong with cheese [...]

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The Song With the Hidden Message for Dreamers

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Had lunch with a great friend, Roger (Rhoades), who’s a 30+/year relationship counselor. Somehow we got on the subject of people who are spectators of life vs. people on the field in the game, and the song “Centerfield” by John Fogerty came up.
The chorus is amazingly insightful to me as an advisor who works [...]

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Maybe it’s fish tanks

Posted by Geoff Wasserman.

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It’s a tough economy for so many businesses, and in times like this most spend their time watching cash flow, cutting expenses, and not a whole lot of time figuring out how to do things differently for new customer acquisition or repeat business from existing fans.

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Are you in it, or is it in you?

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I believe there’s a shift every person has to make at some point, if they’re in something that they’re truly called to be in.
I remember about 16 years ago, I was working with a group of financial advisors, helping them grow their practices. College funding, retirement planning, business succession & estate planning, that sort of [...]

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A reason, a season or a lifetime?

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Spoke with a friend/client the other day (thanks Carrol), and in the middle of our discussion she mentioned a powerful concept on a personal level that has tremendous application for business leaders, especially in small organizations…It’s a paradigm that will free you up from a lot of the stress we as entrepreneurs put on ourselves [...]

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Reproducers vs. Producers

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You’ve probably heard it said that seeds produce after their own kind. In other words, Apple seeds don’t produce cucumbers, they produce apples. Acorns produce oak trees. A seed produces what’s in it.
At the top of most organizations and/or divisions, there’s generally one of two types of leaders: Reproducers or Producers.
Reproducers, generally, are reproducers because they reproduce [...]

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