Why You Should Teach

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ― William Arthur Ward There are people all over the...

The Audacity of Reasonable Expectations

The oven looked like an aquarium. The picture in the ad showed the oven in the kitchen, but at some point it had been...

The Benefits of Keeping Your Business Small

I was wrong. I thought the best path to free up my time to work on other projects was to grow my appliance business...

Item Won’t Sell on Craigslist? Change the Title

I just sat on six large filing cabinets for over three weeks. Nobody called, nobody emailed. I dropped the price, still nothing. I couldn’t...

How to Make $200 Cleaning an Oven

There are few things that people hate more in life than cleaning their oven. People dread the prospect of cleaning filthy ovens and would...

6 Steps to Starting A Successful Blog

Here’s how most blogs start. After reading advice from other bloggers about how to start and run successful blogs, you spend a few hours...

What Paper Airplanes Have Taught Me About Success

Standing on the edge of a large cliff in the mountains of Southern Oregon, we prepared our plane for launch. The paper airplane glided...

What I’ve Learned While Working Remotely

We are just wrapping up our month long visit to the Big Island of Hawaii. I say visit and not vacation because the first...

The High School Startup

As I opened the email three words jumped off the screen. High school students. Yes!, I said out loud to my wife. Some high...

10 Things I Wish I Would Have Known in High School

In our culture today, almost nothing is expected of our youth until after they reach adulthood, that glorious day that we have held up...