Have you noticed that there are two times when it’s dangerous to make a decision about your business or anything else? When you decide something important at either of these times you often find that it’s not the best decision. The first time is late at night. Your energy is low; you may feel tired,… Read more »
As many of you know, I grew up working in the grocery business. In many ways, the grocery business is a slow changing business. To get started a large investment of capital is needed for equipment and inventory, which is one of the reasons that everything changes so slowly, both for stores and for vendors…. Read more »
I’m in Iowa this weekend visiting family. This is a yearly pilgrimage we take about this time every year. You see, my Grandma’s birthday is June 6th and around that day we have a birthday party for her. This year it’s her 96th birthday. There will be over 40 people there ranging in age from… Read more »
This morning when I checked my email I was greeted with this subject line: “Need a Blog Post to Edit”. It was from Brandon, my staff member who edits my posts and makes sure that everything is ready to go out on time. You see, I made the commitment over 5 years ago that I… Read more »
Let me guess, this is what’s happening. . . You get excited about a new idea or project and you get started with it. You schedule a time to work on it, you develop a plan and you get started and then . . . It’s time to start investing some money, either by adding… Read more »