I’m a small business owner twice now. My two businesses are drastically different in some ways, and similar in others. The common denominator is me, and I use my personality and skills in both of them. When I started my first business, a real estate brokerage, I didn’t think much of just doing it. I figured out what I needed …
Owning a business is by far the most joyful thing I do in my life outside of traveling. The two are intertwined for one of my businesses, so I have the best of both worlds. It wasn’t an accident that I got here, though some of it leading up to it would appear that way. I’ve always been entrepreneurial and …
When I was growing up, I saw that owning a business was a very normal thing for the people around me. Almost every member of my dad’s family (his siblings) owned their own business. And I thought that it was how the world of business worked. No one had huge business, yet everyone was financially comfortable. They all had (for …
According to ChatGPT, the definition of an entrepreneur is someone who identifies, develops, and manages a business venture, taking on financial risks in the hope of making a profit. Being an entrepreneur myself, it’s so much more than that small definition. I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was a kid, always identifying needs and coming up with solutions. My first …
When we are born, like the second we are born, everything is neutral. There are no expectations to be the best little boy or best little girl, the brightest student, the best athlete. Oh, how quickly those things change, though. We are quickly bombarded with the issues and opinions from the adults who surround and raise us. They tell us …
We’ve mostly all been there. A negative environment or situation that we wonder how we let ourselves get into. One day we wake up feeling depressed, down, fraught, or any other feeling word that you can think of. The reality is that we cannot control anything outside of ourselves, but we absolutely can control our actions, our mindset, our next …
Friends have always been part of my life. Much of my youth I had them because of proximity and nothing more. The kids that lived across town from me were a treat to spend time with outside of school because our parents rarely wanted to bother toting us from one house to the other. It was easier for them to …
As I publish this post, it’s my 45th birthday. I’m not sure why it’s such a momentous one for me, but I suppose it’s because it feels like it could be smack in the middle of my life, at least I can hope it is, if not even less. My life has been nothing short of spectacular, particularly in my …
Traditional school was never my “thing.” Learning, however, was always something I was interested in. As most people, I enjoy learning about things that interest me. While I succeeded at my primary years doing relatively well in traditional school, large college classrooms were another story. “Disaster” would be a nice way of describing my 18-21 year old self. When I …
It could be safe to say that most of us grow up playing a character in someone else’s story. If I may assume, it’s typically our parents’ story or script. From day one, they dress us in what they want us to wear, feed us what they decide, tell us how to behave according to whatever their social norms or …
