"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." Neale Donald Walsch If its comfortable it probably isn't getting you anywhere. Getting that safe job and going to that safe college and minimizing as much risk as possible is comfortable. But is that how you get ahead? Is that how you design your own lifestyle? Is[...]

Last week's podcast episode on how to fire an employee was one of the most popular episodes I've released. Check it out on Youtube or Spotify . If you are one of the 200+ folks who joined my newsletter recently and are looking for the risk management assessment tool, click here . It is a free section from my real[...]

A note on building leverage: My own journey towards leverage was a slow, tedious grind that took place over 10+ years. During the first years of both Storage Squad and my self-storage business, I spent many hours on the phone with annoying customers who yelled at me. No matter how worn out, frustrated, and beaten[...]

Before we jump in: My friend Sahil Bloom wrote a new book called The 5 Types of Wealth. It's phenomenal. You should buy a copy here. -- People watch too much Shark Tank and think too much about entrepreneurship through a new-idea lens. This makes them delusional. If no one has succeeded before or if your business[...]

I see a funny trend with small business. Owners will spend $60k on a new truck or $10k on a family vacation at the drop of a hat. But they are running a multi-million company with a crappy website they paid somebody $2,000 to build. They don't understand that millions of dollars worth of business is deciding[...]

Customer service is a weak point of most service based businesses. Missed calls. Grumpy overworked employees or owners. Chain smoking unkept technicians. Unreliable. Over promising. Disappointing. Just answering the phone puts you ahead of most of your competitors in this space. But you can take it a step further[...]

Its a tale as old as time. A real estate investor makes their first real taste of money. They sponsored a deal and either sold it or refinanced it and made a million bucks. Maybe more. Maybe their net worth is suddenly $5 or $10 million and they are still young, energetic and hungry for more. What happens next? A[...]

Quick note before we dive in: I'm hosting several free online workshops over the next few weeks. ​ Should I buy a franchise? (Happening TODAY at 2:30pm EST) ​ Incentive Compensation 101 June 17th ​ CEO Bootcamp June 18th ​ Building offshore teams on July 1st ​ How to build a personal brand on July 15th ​ Business[...]