Here’s a link to an article every small business owner should be reading and then directing email and snail-mail to the appropriate Congresssional contacts. Apparently there’s a bill in Congress to expand the current Family Leave Act to small businesses with 15 or more employees. That’s down from the current floor of 50 employees to qualify for mandatory participation.
Imagine a 15-man business with 2 people off for up to 12 weeks at a time! That …

We can justify just about anything, can’t we? A good salesman knows that people  make decisions with emotion (and salesmen are the worst!) and justify those decisions with reason or logic. It’s the emotional angle that drives our want and the logical argument for it fuels the need.
We’re a sorry lot, aren’t we?
But there have to be boundaries as when Clint Eastwood says, “a man’s gotta know his limits.” So, when someone tells you that …

Aiden Ryan Rodriguez made his big entry onto planet Earth earlier this week, weighing in at 7.8 lbs. and a crib-shattering 20 inches long. Mother Dorothy appears to be doing just fine, while Papa Edgar was rendered speechless for one of only a handful of times that that has ever happened in this author’s memory. No doubt that will all change soon enough! Congratulations to the Rodriguez family.
Welcome to the world, little Aiden!
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What you think about determines everything else. Your attitude, and your outcome.
If that’s true, then all you have to do is determine what you want the outcome to be. Determine what it would take to acquire your goal then start thinking about that and don’t stop until you get it.
Odd that some people are not at all sure there’s a God but the same folks are quite positive there’s a devil. Or that the …

If there was a large group of customers and business leaders in the next room and you had good reason to suspect they were discussing your business, would you want to know? I would. If the discussion was positive you could know what you were doing right and throw gas on that fire. Of a negative nature then you could practice some creative damage control to mitigate the circumstances, then take action to remedy the …

I’ve always been one to crawl out of bed about 6:30-7AM if I could get away with it. Even thought the best part of the day was the later evening hours when things calmed down and I could get a few things done. There have been spurts of time where sheer excitement or enthusiasm altered my sleep patterns and work schedule but I got back to the norm as quickly as I could fearing I …