I registered my car today, which involved an emissions test from my local state inspection station. For the past few years this station has occupied a high-traffic corner in town. Business was booming. Then, several months ago, they moved to a much less desirable location. A few months later, their old building was plowed under…
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In the final scene of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the rebel alliance launches an assault on the Death Star in an attempt to defeat the Empire. The hero, Luke Skywalker, pilots his X-wing fighter along a heavily fortified trench in search of a small exhaust port in which to fire his missiles….
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You may have heard this analogy before in other success and self-help literature, but it is such an excellent metaphor for how we often move through life that I think it bears repeating. The story goes that when poachers want to catch monkeys in the wild, they set out a heavy, closed box that has…
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Paying attention is such a common phrase that we rarely stop to consider the financial impact of its meaning. In business there are many ways we pay people: with our money, our loyalty, our repeat business. But our most valuable resource is, without doubt, our time. Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Indeed, time and…
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Most of us have heard that old adage that says, “Success is in the journey, not the destination” or something to that effect. We have a lot of cliches in our culture. And cliches become cliche for a reason: because they’re usually true. In the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers of the United States…
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