Exit strategy?

Remember Mad Libs? You probably played this game with your kids on a car trip. Or maybe you and your friends amused yourselves with an “adult” version of this pursuit after a few drinks. If you don’t remember how it goes or, never tried a mad lib, here is how it works.

Write down a word that is of the type indicated on a piece of paper (e.g. “a noun” = grapefruit). The sillier the word, the better.

For our Mad Lib, here are the words you need to write down:

an adjective
a noun
a noun
a verb
a verb
a noun
a noun

Now, click on the “read more” tab and put the words into the sentence in place of the numbers.

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Going Out On Top-Why Planning Your Exit Strategy Early is a Great Idea

The day you start to plan your business is the day you start to plan your exit strategy.

What if the time has now come for you to leave your business behind permanently? You may be selling your business, retiring from your business, moving on to another business that you want to create, or moving on to a time that you may relax and enjoy the fruits of your labors. Consider the following hypothetical situation: Joe was a great financial planner. He attracted and retained a nice mix of middle-class and wealthy clientele.

Joe made a good living from his business. But his business employed only himself. It made it difficult for him to take time away from his office. Moreover, he was very good at what he did. His clients were extremely loyal to him, and as he grew older, he heard more and more nervous jokes about how he had better never retire because they could never find another like him.

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A Brain Teaser . . .

Here is a fun brain teaser to test your reasoning skills

George asks Billy how old he is. Billy replies that two days ago he was 22, but next year, he’ll be 25 years old. How can this be?

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Interview with Eric Jackier on Leadership

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The Road to Perdition is Paved with What?

We’re more than halfway through our summer and of our year 2020. Which, if any, of your New Years’ resolutions are still pending? What changes do you still want to make? How can you make this year better than last? Yes, I am aware that this is a most unusual year, due to circumstances beyond our control. Nonetheless, with respect to much of how you view your journey through life, there is still a lot that you can shape, create and achieve, moment by precious moment. The choice is yours.

In his song, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Jimmy Buffet sings “Yesterday is over my shoulder, so I can’t look back for too long, there’s too much to see waiting in front of me and I know that I just can’t go wrong.” To me, these words are powerful because they reflect a forward-looking and positive perspective. According to Brian Tracy in his Personal Success program, successful people think about what they want, most of the time. What are you thinking about most of the time?

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Interview with James Jackson

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Three Seconds: Ten Tips to Protect Against Identity Theft

If you are an average reader, it took you three seconds or less to read the title to this post. In the same amount of time, a thief nabbed someone’s identity. Sadly, our always-connected digital world, one that brings us many exciting and wonderful things through technology, has also enabled our very financial essence, our pecuniary being, to be stolen.

Currently, as more and more of us work remotely, accessing the internet from our home where our firewalls may not be as impenetrable as our office, this purloining may become a greater problem.

What can you do to gird yourself against identity thieves? Here are ten tips to protect your “self”:

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Learning to Quit

Learning to quit?

If you are like most of us, one of the things that was drummed into your head as a child by your parents was to finish what you start. Being a quitter is a bad thing, right?

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Getting it Done, 101

“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.” Dalai Lama

As I read this quote, my focus shifts among the minimum 1000 things on my to-do list, all of which are tapping on my shoulder.

Does this scenario sound vaguely familiar? If it does, you could be dealing with a state of overwhelm. This state affects most of us at some point in our lives.

Many people recount that they are feeling overwhelmed by things like juggling the demands of business/career, family and self-care. Me time, REALLY? Here are some other common reasons why we feel overwhelmed:

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