Well, I have learned a lot over the past few years I have been blogging. For example, I have learned how to drive local customers to a store with a blog and how to market yourself and achieve your goals through blogging. Pretty much any success I am now enjoying professionally is a direct [...]
As you can tell from the sidebar, my most popular post ever is 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me. I cranked that one out in early summer of 2007, and honestly, I did not plan for it to be some great post; I just sort of threw it out there. It is six [...]
In the Marines, I was taught an excellent management technique known as The Commander’s Intent. Like business, battle is a highly fluid situation. The more detailed you make your plans, the less likely they are going to pan out as you envision them (It was here that I learned my Ready. Fire. Aim technique). Because [...]
If you are thinking about starting a business, I know one thing about you already:
You do not have enough money.
You just don’t. Odds are, unless your name is Gates or Buffet, you are under capitalized. Know what? Everyone else is too.
I guess somewhere out there is somebody who had the proper lines of credit, [...]
Hughism: Actions are to feelings as 9 is to 1.
Everyone wants to talk about feelings. It is everywhere you look. People are saying things like:
I don’t make more sales calls because it makes me feel bad.
I don’t open my own business because I would not not feel safe.
If I started my own business, [...]
We rarely suffer from a paucity of choice. If we want something, there is, often as not, more than one supplier. Given the proliferation of options available to us, you have to ask yourself this:
With all the various options in the marketplace, why should I do business with you?
The answer to this is, or at [...]
Hughism: Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
The man I overheard at the concert said: “I would do anything to be able to play the piano like that“.
Anything, apparently, but take lessons and practice.
“It costs to be the boss” - James Brown
If you want to drive a ball like Tiger Woods, [...]
One thing I have noticed about successful people is that they have a firm grasp of reality.
Let’s define terms for a minute, shall we? Reality is not what we wish it was, what we want it to be, or how things should be. Reality is what is.
Example: I like wearing t-shirts, khaki pants and sandals. [...]
Hughism: The way things look is the way things are
Here is a confession: I am NOT the world’s neatest person. When I was in the [tag]Marines[/tag], I always had trouble with inspections; always, that is, until I met Staff Sergeant Britt. He had a reputation of being something of a hard ass and virtually none [...]
Hughism: Everybody wants to be a regular somewhere.
Community is disappearing. 60 years ago, most people shopped at the neighborhood market, went to the neighborhood bars and they worshiped in the neighborhood. Everyone had all these places where they were a regular. Not any more.
As the Cheers song says, sometimes you want to go where [...]