Archive for March, 2007

Are you afraid of failure?

Question:
What would you do if you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you would not fail?
Think about what your answer is. If it is anything other than what you are doing right now, then the only thing holding you back is your fear of failure.
Think about this:
Failure is only feedback. Failure is NEVER [...]

Not for sissies

Let’s be honest with each other for a minute. We do not do it for the money. Any damn fool can make money, and many of them do. I am an entrepreneur because I can’t NOT be. I am self-employed because I will to. I decided many years ago to steer my own course; to [...]

Who owns your time?

An increasing trend I have seen is employers exerting control
over their employees outside the workplace.
For example, on another blog I write for I noted the blogger who was told to quit blogging on hispersonal blog on his off time since he linked to his boss’s competitors. His boss told him he could keep the blog [...]

What it means to be an American

My Grandfather, who you will hear about often in these pages, was a primary influence on me and my life. He hated what he called “the entitlement culture” so prevalent in America today. When I saw the short “creed” below, I thought of my Grandfather.
[tag]Dean Alfange [/tag]was an American statesman born December 2, 1899, in [...]

How to be a man

First, a warning: I am politically incorrect. I have always thought that if you are not offending someone, you are not doing anything. The following is a poem by a very politically incorrect writer, Mr. Rudyard Kipling.
IF-
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can [...]

Who I am, and what I am about

I have had several [tag]blogs[/tag] through the years, but have now narrowed it down to just 3, the one you are now reading, another one on Online Bookselling, and one that is meant to be a promotional effort for my shop.
At various points, I have toyed with blogs on ADD, [tag]small business ownership[/tag], travel, and [...]