I call this the Bookstore Story, and it’s a story that I’ve told to my employees, my family, my friends, and even myself at times. It’s taught me some valuable lessons, and I hope it teaches you something.

When I was engaged to my wife, I worked as a cashier in a university bookstore. Most of the t...

Are you getting in your own way? Are you limiting your own success because you don’t believe that it is possible to reach your goal?  There is a way you can break those mental barriers and get the success you are looking for.

Some of the details might be a little off and feel free to look up the wh...

I mentor a lot of appraisers from all across the nation. Most of the time, appraisers ask me how to do something such as, how to get their business to the next level. How to be more efficient. How to be able to close the doors at 5:00 pm and have weekends off.  How to (fill in the blank).

While the...

How much do you need to make each month? While it’s going to vary from person to person, you should know how much you need every single month in order to be able to continue in the lifestyle that you have made for yourself.  You need to know what you’ll need to continue paying yourself, your bills, ...

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.

The first of these stores was there for ...

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 what they said...