Real Money

Today on my EADDblog, I posted an article on saving money and how it relates to life and business. Here’s an excerpt:

This past week, I cut out about six different monthly services that my wife
and I haven’t been using all that much. These were for both business and
personal use - including the landline phone at home. It’s been months
since I picked up the landline to make a call - so why did we keep paying the
phone company $35 each month?

In total, we’ll be saving just under $200 each month by canceling the
services that we did. So why didn’t we do this months ago? Why did
we keep sending our hard earned money to other people for things we didn’t
use?

and…

The lesson is simple - small things, when combined, can make big impacts.
It’s true when in comes to money. It’s also true when it comes to
time.

Putting Out Fires

I posted an article on my EADDblog about urgency and putting out fires. I based it off of a blog post from Seth Godin on the subject. It’s really an excellent piece and worth the read. Here’s a piece:

You can have grand visions for remodeling your house or getting in shape, but if
there’s a fire in the kitchen, you drop everything and put it out. What choice
do you have? The problem, of course, is that most organizations are on fire,
most of the time.

Hartford Marathon

Over on my EADDblog, I posted an article about signing up for the Hartford Marathon, why I decided to run another marathon and how it relates to business. Here’s an excerpt:

The marathon signifies so many things to me - perseverence, dedication,
development, pushing yourself to your limits and beyond, attitude, focus, and
more. People ask me how I can do it, year after year. How can I do
all the training that is required, especially with a young family. How can
I run 4 hours straight. How can I be excited about getting out an running
in the rain in the early morning. How can I…

The simple answer is that I can’t do any of that - what I can do is be
someone who takes one step and then another and then another. It’s not
about running 26.2 miles - it’s about running up to the next corner, or taking
the next step - pushing myself to do just one more because I know I can.
Small and simple is the way you do a marathon. As the old Chinese proverb
goes - the journey of a thousand miles begins with one first step. The
same is true with a marathon.

The key for you, my dear reader, is to relate the marathon to
yourself. What is your marathon? Is it your
business?

Enjoy.

PRE Regional Training Call - March

Betty Diller hosted a wrap-up phone call from our two regional training sessions. On the call was Bill Higbee of Reading, Holly Radcliffe of Ephrata, and myself.

You can listen to the call here. What you'll learn will be what was covered during the trainings. A great recap for those that attended and a good half-hour call to listen to for ways to get more out of PRE.

Enjoy

Thinking

Today, I posted an article about thinking on my EADD blog. Here’s a quote from the article:

A Stanford Institute study showed that 79% of people do not think. When I
first heard that, it shocked me. But upon further thought, that pretty
much fits into the 80/20 rule.

Enjoy the full article.

Excellence in Action

On my EADDblog, I posted an article on a Seth Godin piece. Seth is a master marketer. He wrote about why excellent people should not use a resume. Makes sense to me. Apply it to other parts of your life - what areas of your life and your business can you be extra-ordinary?

Changes

Now that it's the middle of March, here in Pennsylvania we experience weather changes almost daily - one day warm, the next day cold.

With the flu making the rounds, changes in hours and working schedules are happening all over.

So many times we react to change. That's fine most of the time.

How often are you creating change though? What changes can you proactively make to your life and your business? What would the effect be?