How Do You Fix A Train Wreck? About 10 years ago, I thought I had it all together.  I had everything that is supposed to symbolize success: nice home, German cars, fancy vacations and all the other stuff that normally comes with the package. One problem with the situation above: It came at a steep price.  Most of my time was spent away from my wife as I traversed the United States on airplanes and spent late nights at the office. To put it honestly – I was a train... Read More

The two things you want out of your online business are something that makes visitors click and convert. In theory, if this is something you've been struggling with, there are only two things that could be wrong at-most. First of all, if they're not clicking, then you clearly are not presenting them with a strong enough call-to-action. Secondly, if they're clicking but not converting, then the benefits that you're offering upon conversion are not strong enough to get them to take the next step. By working on both of these... Read More

They All Want Me To Fail One thing that has been consistent throughout my life, is the abundance of people who seem to want me to fail.  From bosses, to teachers, to even my own parents at times, it seems like everyone is obsessed with making sure I became a complete failure. I'm not really sure why this conspiracy exists.  I admit that I wasn't the most well behaved kid (I really thought frogs would enjoy living in my sister's clothing drawers), or the best student (I heard rumors about... Read More

Self-made millionaires didn't get to where they are through luck and privilege. While there may be a little bit of the former, there is none of the latter, or else you couldn't really use the "self-made" moniker. So if they don't just stumble into it, how do they go from virtually nothing to having financial independence and the world in their hands? In short, they do it by possessing these five habits. 1. They are voracious readers. Self-made millionaires have a passion to learn all there is to know about... Read More

What Would You Do? Recently, my wife told me about her friend who was driving through downtown San Diego when traffic unexpectedly backed up. People were slowing down to gawk and take pictures of an older woman, who was standing in the middle of the road naked.  It was a cold day and she was shivering, clearly confused. As many others passed, my wife’s friend stopped, ran into traffic, covered the woman with a beach towel she had in the back of her car, got her something warm to drink... Read More