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"There are no easy Fourteeners." "Stay on the trail - there are no shortcuts." That's what the sign to Quandary Peak said, and anyone that has done fourteeners, in this case over 14,200 feet, knows this. It's a grind. I shot
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If remarkable success would take you five solid years of persistence, would you stay consistent on one single thing like writing, reading or pushing on a new skill? What about for one year? We like success. We like watching the stars and the ones that have made it. Getting to
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I sold everything off and hit the road exploring the United States with my wife and 3 kids. We have seen many of the national parks, landed on a glacier in Alaska and have lived in cities all across the country getting to know locals and exploring the diversity of
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It's really hard to surprise someone with a fancy new piece of technology. We get exposed to and see so much innovation that we are coming to expect ridiculous functionality. In your industry alone, there are likely much more than enough products to solve your problems, make you
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When life was hard and we had to shovel dirt with a stick, welcoming innovation in technology allowed for large jumps in productivity and happiness. Maybe people then were thinking about how to make a better stick and work harder with it. The task at hand was pretty simple -
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We live in an unprecedented time of innovation. It's easier than ever to bring ideas to the market. You have access to limitless manufacturing at Alibaba and a world of developers at Upwork. Get some capital from Kickstarter and you are on your way. However, if you are
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Just because something is working on a small scale does not mean it will work on a larger scale. You might be able to buy and sell a few computers or hardware but running a division of Hewlett-Packard or Dell is a different game altogether. The amount of resources to
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When we had big industrial companies with layers of management and structure we could hide. We had bosses to tell us what we needed to do. Formal processes governed our movements. It was an environment of control, steadiness and consensus. The hard part about the new economy we have been
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It's easy to dabble. There are so many things to try in this big wide world we live in. Pick your entertainment, and you can find the Youtube channel of choice to discover how to cook, do comedy, build furniture or play a new sport. My kids visited
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There's a game that I see played out with startups, small businesses and corporations. And it's a game that can full manages, employers and owners with relative ease. I'm not sure why people like to be fooled. But the game is ubiquitous. When I
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If you want to build and operate a small business based on some work you are familiar with, then you don't have to worry about scaling up. Working on a small scale is perfectly fine. It's in fact, preferable, for so many business people and entrepreneurs.
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If you are an entrepreneur or investor in a business, it is so critical to heed the advice and framework that Robert Kiyosaki shares in his appeal that systems, not products, need your focus. Simply put, "Money always follows management." It's takes a special person to