Archive for dreams
Your High Risk Job
I’m guessing it’s because the risk of earning a living doing anything else than doing your own thing is unthinkable. All the hazards of owning a small business pale in comparison to the work-a-day rat race of working on someone else’s dream. Or it could just be nobody would hire them wearing that superhero outfit.
The Doctor is IN!
The beloved Martin Luther King Junior had a dream, like so many of us have our dreams; but what what made his dream “go viral,” as we say today, was it’s enormity, given the times; and his refusal to suppress it. Would that he were alive today!
Putting One Foot in Front of the Other
The Winter Warlock learned pretty easily how liberating it is to be reborn by taking baby steps: a lesson we should absorb at any age.
Living the Dream, Part 2: Back to Basics
“Gentlemen, this is a football.”
I am reminded of the story of Vince Lombardi: at the beginning of every season, and even when the Packers just came back after a really big win, he would have them start the next practice by getting back to basics.
So what are your basics? What are your core foundations to [...]
Living the Dream vs. the Cost of Insurance
What kind of family do you live in? One that supports your small business dream, one that is indifferent to your dreams, or one that really thinks you are crazy and you had better keep your day job.
Well I am lucky. I mean, really lucky. I have a family of small business owners. Sure they [...]
Snuggies’ Guerrilla Marketing Campaign
Ok, even kids giggle at the Snuggie ads on TV where everyone sits in the stands of a football game in their sleeved blankets. Indeed, the guilty pleasure of snuggling under a huge fitted blanket with a good book or your laptop could be about as good as it gets, especially as fall begins to [...]
Snuggies' Guerrilla Marketing Campaign
Ok, even kids giggle at the Snuggie ads on TV where everyone sits in the stands of a football game in their sleeved blankets. Indeed, the guilty pleasure of snuggling under a huge fitted blanket with a good book or your laptop could be about as good as it gets, especially as fall begins to [...]
Marveling at Disney
My 6 and 8-year-old boys will be teenagers by the time Disney gets around to the X-Men and Ironman, and I expect they’ll be the new Disney market by then; the brooding young male. But we
