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Near my office there are two convenience stores but I only ever go to one of them.  Really, there isn’t anything terrible about the one I don’t go to, but I just never do.  Let me tell you a little story and you’ll see why I shop at one store over the other.

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Statistically speaking, the overwhelming majority of people have given up on or pushed aside their New Year's Resolutions by March of any given year. This doesn’t mean that the goals these nine out of ten people set for themselves were ill-thought out, or that these people didn’t mean...

We are constantly negotiating with people in our lives.  All day, every day, we are asking things of our friends, family, clients and coworkers.  We’ve been taught to try and get agreement, a “yes”, from all these interactions. We’ve been told to keep pushing and...

I love having the opportunity to get involved with other appraisers and to assist them in moving their businesses to the next level.  I’ve been doing a lot of one-on-one coaching recently and a common theme in many sessions is a lack of foundation to start from.  Specifically,...

Many of us throw ourselves into our work because we love it. We love it so much we forget to take regular breaks, but it’s such an important thing to do. I’m a fan of “Work hard, play hard.” Working is great, but we need to play sometimes too. 

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If you’ve not read “The Richest Man In Babylon” by George S. Clason, stop reading this blog right now, get on Amazon, and order a copy of it immediately.  Order the book and leave it next to your bed so you read it last thing at night.  Order the Audible version of it...