Merry Christmas to My Readers

This could very well be my last post before Christmas so first of all, Merry Christmas to everyone. Now, as I find myself about to enter my third year as a business owner, I can't help but reflect on the last 2 years. Each year has brought me new levels of success while other businesses came up short or just folded completely. 

I feel as if much of that has been due to my inability to recognize the word quit into my life, I play to win at everything I do and can not stand negative energy as it saps strength away from everyone and everything it comes into contact with. I know there are still many of you that don't believe in "The Secret" however I have found it works for me. I don't know how it works, I just know that it does.

After my first year in business, I swore to double profits the second year, end result was I quadrupled them.

In a recent post, I mentioned about how my next year was going to be even bigger than this year was. Within 24 hours of making that post I had already accepted a meeting set for January 5th that if all goes well will bring me this years total revenue from just one contract. 

I am not going to set limits this year as to what I hope to accomplish. Instead I will accept what comes and be thankful. 

Knock Knock

My daughters High School recently took the State football Championship for what has to be like the first time ever. Going undefeated it seemed as this team has been on fire all year long. Tonight as I watched the news I saw an alumni from her school that had went on to play Professional football for the Seahawks describe how he had made the five hour trip with this years team to the championship game. He had also been at the playoffs last year when this same team came so close only to be eliminated and he remarked on the advice he gave last years team after the game. Ron Easley had looked at the team and said "This time we knocked on the door, Next time we're going to kick the son of a bitch in!"

What does any of this have to do with business? All year long, even though my company exceeded my goals, it seems as if I have been knocking on the door and almost got an answer a time or two. As this year ends I know that knocking time has ended, next year I am going to kick the son of a bitch in! Whose coming with me?

Money and the Power

For those of us that happen to have noticed, last week rapper 50 cent launched his new reality show on MTV called The Money and the Power. It is something similar to "The Apprentice" and although after watching it I believe most of the participants are moronic at best and would be eaten alive in the business world, I still see the value of learning lessons from 50. Anyone that doubts the man's ability to make money should only look at where he started and where he is now. Personally, I wonder how much longer it will be before Richard Branson sees the value of this type of show and stars in one himself. That would be the ultimate in reality shows in my eyes. Either way, no matter who your personal money making guru is, this show is entertaining and there are lessons to be learned but when you break all these shows down, the one rule that remains constant is that to be successful you have to believe in yourself first and you have to put in the work, nothing comes easy or is given to you but with the right frame of mind, focus and keeping your eyes on the goal, anyone can be a success.

GoodBye King George!

Make sure your voice is heard and be sure to GO VOTE! I don't care who you vote for as long as you do, this is the one chance you get every 4 years to send a message to Washington D.C. about what you think of the job they are doing and I if you take one look at the world today you will realize this could very well be one of the most important elections in U.S. history.