You started your business with some kind of dream, some sort of plan. Maybe you imagined what it would look like in 3 years, 5 years or even 10 years out. (as an unrelated side note, 10 years is a really long time – think about all of the things that have changed in the […]

I thought about this because I saw an interesting article on Costco (nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17costco) that I found on the 37 Signals Blog (http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/505-5-business-lessons-from-costco).

Although I’m not a customer at Costco, I did shop at their primary competition, Sam’s Club, this weekend and the first thing I think of when I think of the category is…low price. Well that and really large jars of mayonnaise and cereal boxes that won’t fit in our car.

So I saw in interesting article in the Men’s Journal (May 2007 – I’m not doing a good job of keeping up with the backlog…). Anyway, the article was titled “Think Yourself Stronger (how sports hypnosis boosts performance)”.  The essence of the article was that the author was trying sports hypnosis as a way to […]

…So my approach going forward is to be friendly, be approachable, try to be somebody’s first friend (as suggested by Scott Ginsberg here: http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2007/07/be-somebodys-first-friend.html especially once I’m not the new guy).

Welcome to my Blog…and welcome to my new Business. As you would probably guess, there are always a million things to do when you are on your own and setting priorities and goals becomes even more important than the corporate world.  One of my goals was to jump into blogging but for one reason or […]