Thinking Vertically

Vertical thinking must sit on top of horizontal thinking, as horizontal thinking as a natural dependency of vertical thinking. Say that three times fast. Ha! But let me break that down – I started with my conclusion. There’s a certain perspective that...

We’re all working for ourselves

I’ve slung around the term “entrepreneur” for most of my life. My parents owned a grocery store before I was born, then they owned a meat packing plant too. Then they owned a farm, a pawn shop, a natural remedy store, and currently a furniture and...

Workout is like coffee – a routine

Almost every morning, I go through a routine. I wake up, turn on my computer, check my phone to see if I’ve won a million dollars or the world has ended, look outside to assess the weather, write on my white-board my list of things to do today, make some coffee,...

Another workout!

This morning I woke up at 4:30am and stayed awake for an hour because I had so many thoughts swirling around in my head that I wanted to write about. It’s interesting what the perception of an audience does in the mind of someone who has the…bent, of...

It’s important to do things that you fail at

(Not included: Skydiving, tightrope walking, betting 20 million on the Broncos winning the Superbowl.) Today I did some things I feel like I failed at. That means I have room to grow, and experience success. The pain of failure (except in the case of jumping over a...