I hope you had a great couple of weeks off, a solid close to 2025, and a positive transition into what I know is going to be a very strong year for us all. And since this is the first meeting of the year, it has me thinking about first impressions. Likely everyone has heard
BNI Elevate is a networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. Today’s make more money money moment is a little long, but every bullet point is really important so please pay close attention. And I’m wearing my Santa hat today because I’m celebrating the gift that keeps
Every business that has ever been created, grown, or transformed stands on the shoulders of two crucial forces. Courage and confidence. In business, these are not “soft skills.” They are not personality traits, reserved for a lucky few. Like any muscle, they can be created and cultivated, and strengthened through action. And if you want
Good morning Elevate and welcome to your Wednesday! Members, guests, visitors. Whether it’s your first time in this virtual room, or your tenth year in Elevate, there’s a reason why we all showed up this morning. Actually for those of us who have been around a while, there are multiple reasons — because we love
Hopefully many of you are aware of Eckhart Tolle. But for anyone who isn’t, he’s a German-born spiritual teacher and author known for his international bestsellers, The Power of Now and A New Earth. As entrepreneurs and business owners, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future — forecasting sales, planning strategy, preparing
Picture a 747, having just taken off from Los Angeles, on it’s way to New York City… If the pilot adjusts the heading just three and a half degrees South… even though the nose of the plane may only move a couple feet… instead of landing at LaGuardia or JFK, it will end up in
One of the hardest and most defining parts of leadership isn’t about vision, or finance, or innovation. It’s about people. More specifically, it’s about knowing when to let someone go versus when to keep investing in them. Sometimes it’s easy because the value proposition is clear, and the value just isn’t there in the way
Business owners and entrepreneurs face countless decisions every day — some small, some life-changing. But the truth is, many don’t fail because they make the wrong decision. They fail because they make no decision at all. Indecisiveness is the silent killer of progress. It drains your energy, delays momentum, and keeps opportunity waiting on the
I’ve said it many times before, and I will continue to remind all of us, that business is about relationships. And the bedrock of any relationship is trust. With it, you can say almost anything, ask almost anything, and create almost anything. Functionality is high. Without it, you’re not getting anywhere. There’s no connection, no
Have you noticed lately how “noisy,” the world has been lately? Noise in the market, in politics, in advertising and business. And it’s not that there aren’t also valuable elements to pay attention to in all of those places. But with so much being sent out — and from so many places — notifications, trends,