In the past few months I’ve had the good fortune of working with a number of successful serial entrepreneurs; people who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and sold them or taken them public for tens of millions.
In our conversations I am always amazed with their similarity in thought and personality type. So similar in fact, I sometimes get confused with who I’m talking to. I remember saying to one of these individuals “wow, that’s so weird, this sounds almost identical to a conversation I had with another successful serial entrepreneur just …

I stole these quotes from somewhere. I can’t remember now. They’ve been sitting on my computer and I dug them up while I was looking for something else. I found a great deal of inspiration in them and I hope you will too. If you do please link back to them:
You Don’t Become Wealthy By Buying Things…You Become Wealthy By Selling Them
- Jason Leister, author, The Independent Thinker’s Guide To Becoming A Six-Figure Copywriter
People never fail at Internet Marketing - they just quit before success happens
- Unknown
First, learn your craft. …

Our latest business endeavor with the skin care products has really been an eye opener.  Having mostly sold information and services for the past 10 years or so, selling physical products retail and wholesale is big change.
If you’ve been asking what things you should sell or considering switching from physical goods to services or information or vice-versa here are some things to consider. These are only my experiences and may be different for yours.
Physical goods Pros:

Tangible and honest for the most part. People get to touch feel and evaluate the …

I know you’ve heard the saying the money’s in the list, but the money isn’t just in your email or mailing list. It’s in your to-do list too.
Increasingly I am of the opinion that life is all about lists. Lists of short term goals, lists of long term goals, task lists, checklists, etc…
To my right on my rather messy desk are to-do lists written on post-it notes for my various projects. On my computer there are several checklists I’ve created for courses and how-to guides. On the wall to my …

Wow, I feel like it’s been a while since my last post.  Well, here’s the low-down.
Remember I took that trip last month and was gone for a couple of weeks. I had a great time but taking time away from my business (obsession) really derailed me. For the past three or four years I have been laser-beam focused and insanely driven and perhaps a bit too comfortable here at the computer.
Being driven hasn’t been all bad. In the past few years I’ve managed to write two books, create two home-study …

last night I attended a cool event. I may have mentioned it before but I like to attend the Monday lectures at a “Place of Peace” here in Ventura. They’re usually entertaining and random, and rarely what or who they are supposed to be.
Anyhow, last night was supposed to be “Six Pillars (to something?).” Instead, it turned out to be a vision board party. Angel who organized the event had bunches of magazines, glue sticks, heavy paper stock, patterned and colored papers, and scissors.
Funny, I’d been meaning to make a …

I just returned from  a trip to North Carolina, while I was there I visited some friends near the Blue Ridge Mountains and Pisgah Forest area of Brevard where I rediscovered the importance of staying true to yourself, and how authenticity and consistency draw people like a magnet.
Mike took me to the backyard, showing me a lovely Garden containing varieties of Kale, Lettuce, Basil, and other organic delights.  As I sit here now I have little inclination for gardening. However, at the moment I was captivated by all he showed …

I spent the weekend at the Stephen Pierce Infinite Income Workshop. If you’re unfamiliar with Stephen he is a motivational speaker and marketer who raised himself  from poverty and crime to accountability and success.
Today he travels the world advocating online wealth through affiliate marketing, blogging, and selling information products. He has taken the stage with notable people such as Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powel, Brian Tracy and numerous others.
I first saw Stephen at Mike Filsaime’s Seven Figure Code seminar. I can’t remember what he was talking about then but I must …

My sister and her family came to visit from Ohio. They’re Catholics and very right wing. They live on a farm and have guns and shoot varmints.
They home-school their children and have a goat share where they sell shares of a goat in exchange for a certain amount of goat milk each month. They do this to get around a law prohibiting the sale of unpasturized milk.
My sister tells me with grim seriousness “Oh you don’t understand…Obama is a bad bad man…he’s not who you think he is. He’s not …

Personal development and business guru Jim Rohn died this past week on Thursday December the 5th. Throughout his lifetime Jim Rohn touched many peoples lives with his books, CDs, and Seminars including myself.
We all need people with good judgment, sound morals, discipline, and wisdom to guide us. Man cannot go far without the help of others who are better, more knowledgeable and wiser. We need others to raise us up to see what is possible.
Jim Rohn was one of those people with the gift of bringing out the best in …

I was someone who struggled with math growing-up. I liked math and wanted to do well  but had horrible test anxiety. My college math experience was so bad. One day I went to my instructor and plead with him to pass me through my final math class.
I had already taken the class and dropped it two or three times.  I was doing okay on the homework but I was bombing the tests. Much to my terror my pleading didn’t work. My instructor told me the worst thing possible. “Hmm…Well…let’s say …

If you are going to be an entrepreneur or solopreneur you’ve got to be a leader.  You are captain at the helm and unless you steer your ship nobody will steer it for you.
I see people buying course after course, waiting for one of those courses to have some magic formula that propels them toward instant success. It just doesn’t work that way, and the more I have thought about why people fail in their businesses or fail to make the most from courses they buy the more I think …

Remember dreaming about all the things you would do and be and have growing up? If your life is anything like mine then you know that the reality of adult life doesn’t necessarily play out like the dreams of childhood.

I have climbed more than a few mountains and yet the most difficult mountain to climb has been the mountain of entrepreneurial success. There is no set pathway or trail, the climb is long and steep, many times we are surrounded by people we need to carry or pull up the mountain, we are in charge of planning, logistics, mapping, charting, organizing the expedition, operational details and execution.

I am definitely a broken record when it comes to learning by doing. You can read, and read, and read but unless you get out there and do something nothing is going to happen.
Of course we can’t act on all that we read but…I know people who read everything on self help and personal development but who have been in the same place in life for years. They certainly have the foundations to do something to improve their lives but  never act.
The online world can be another great place to …

I know there are a lot of you out there not making squat. You try this and that but you can’t seem to squeeze even $1 lousy dollar from your efforts.
Could this be because you aren’t really doing much? Are you always in the forums and looking for some magic formula or some piece of software that is going to make you rich overnight? Sorry friend’s it just doesn’t work like that.
Today, I talked to Darin from Adsense Strategies and Internet Marketing Tips (which is a great site by the …

We all drift, and even the most disciplined of us. I often find myself wasting time checking email more than I should or drifting unproductively through some research task.
How many of you have found yourself at the computer an hour later wondering what you sat down to do in the first place. I know I am guilty of doing so from time to time. In fact, I just caught myself starting to drift into “cleaning up my desktop” mode.
As much as I hate to jump on the bandwagon with everyone …

Sorry guys, no posts for a couple of days. As you can see, the blog has been moved to it’s new location here at EntrepreneursSuccessJournal.com.  I have been working on getting the blog setup at this new location and experimenting with some different looks. My apologies if things don’t look quite right for a while. Trust me, things will look better soon.
I should listen to my own advice about outtasking and hire someone customize the blog for me but I have allowed myself to get wrapped up in playing around …

There is great truth in the quote which has sometimes been attributed to actress Ilka Chase that “the only people who have never failed are those who have never tried.”
All of us can think back to moments in our lives where we have had to fail at  least once if not several times before we were successful at something.  When we are children (or so it seems) we are more intent on succeeding at things. But as the years pass many of us become habitual comfort seekers afraid to break …

Sometimes it’s just hard to get things done. Especially when there is no one there to poke or prod us into doing them. We know we should do them but we are either too busy, too tired, or too full of excuses to do them.
I know for myself difficulty in getting things done is usually a combination of  busyness, tiredness, and excuse. My day-job as a creative director can be stressful and tiresome mentally. I have employees to deal with, clients to deal with, multiple projects, and tight deadlines to …