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A friend of mine introduced me and my family to the game of Cash Flow by Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame. It's a great game for overlaying risk onto how real life works. You end up in the rat race for a long time before
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I picked up James Altucher's book, Choose Yourself, after reading some articles on his blog. His honesty, candor and restlessness drew me in. I like straightforward, authentic people. They cut through the chase and tell it like it is. Choose Yourself focuses on his own journey and the
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There are facts and then there is reality. The fact is that other people are walking around with knowledge and wisdom that can save you years of pain and heartache. The reality is that you will likely not listen or even ask. Sure, you may think you will, but if
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If you want to become a better business person, then simply listen to what people do, not what they say. It sounds simple. But it's hard. We like to rationalize, hope and chase after elusive things. It also means getting real. Your business or idea may never grow
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I don't like multi-tools. They do a lot of jobs in a mediocre way rather than one or two really well. Something is lost in having too many choices without a prime function. It's not hard to try and do a lot of things. In fact,
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The worst strategy you can choose is the one that is in between. You want to win everybody so you don't focus on the specific people that matter. It happens way more often than I can count. Whether it's chasing the latest tech fads, growing headcount
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Making something complex is not hard. The ability to create complexity can happen from a lack of thorough and clear thinking. It's easier to be indiscriminate and add things to your business whether it is software, headcount or processes. But the problem with complexity is that it introduces
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When I buy something of quality, I tend to keep it for a long time and take care of it. It's part of how I was raised and how I instruct my own kids. Part of it is to preserve what we own. The other is a respect
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You can say it simpler. You can make your operations work leaner. You can get rid of noise and focus. The easy part is adding what looks mesmerizing or novel. It's not hard to be verbose or corporate in your tone and messaging. The hard part is being
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If you are a business owner, I wanted to share a powerful, pleasurable and simple app for you and your team to use to help you manage that all important metric - cash flow. Pulse designed a brilliant web application which augments your accounting systems. The latter focuses on financials,
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It isn't quite that easy to find a slot in the broad array of selections in the marketplace. Trying to copy the leader is one strategy, but it only makes you comparable and ultimately if you cannot beat the leader then you are marginalized. When we are dealing
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Which matters more, your passion or market value? If people do not want to buy what you have to offer because it is not valuable to them, then you can have all the passion in the world, but it won't have legs to run on. It's