This is a guest post from Jori Hamilton (see bio at the end of the post). Thanks for the interesting ideas Jori…! Starting a small business is an ambitious endeavor. You likely have goals in mind, and you may have set out plans for your company’s ongoing growth as a key part of your business […]

As you might guess from the title, the gist of the book is that we collectively would benefit from not only keeping an open mind, but actively finding ways to challenge ideas and beliefs as a way to be ‘more’ right.

It’s long been said that laughter is the best medicine.  In the 1300’s, Henri de Mondeville, a French Surgeon, was already studying and documenting the positive effects of using laughter as therapy for pain reduction with his patients.  And a full millennium prior that, Aristotle theorized that “Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.” […]

I often find myself thinking about my dad. He passed away a few years ago and although he’s not here, I still find myself uncovering and appreciating the many lessons he taught me. And a lot of those lessons have been particularly important to me since I started my own business (now over 13 years […]

If working from home has been on your wish list, it’s highly likely you are going to get to experience it in the coming weeks; provided it’s an option in your profession.  Mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 virus is a challenge we all need to be taking ownership of.  I’m convinced, by the time […]

It’s been nearly 15 years since we sold our business in Oregon and moved to Kansas.  This past week, we returned for the first time to the place our now 17 year old daughter was born.  It was also the first time our little family spent in the state as Oregon tourists and not Oregon […]