I recently spent a day with a friend and her 2 year old son, Martin. We went to a park that has an area with a water feature where water shoots out of the ground from several spouts, similar to the way water comes out of a water fountain. 

Of course, this area of the park stays lit with small children running around like crazy people, ducking into and out of the many streams of water shooting up from the ground. They do this as their parents sit on the chairs and benches surrounding the area and watch them play.

So we found a spot to sit, and Martin’s mom released him into the wild. I don’t have kids, so I’m not around children on a regular basis, and I’m not really sure what I expected little Martin to do, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by what he did do.

He saw the water shoot of from the ground and went balls to the wall crazy over it. He took off running into the water with all of the other kids, jumping and stomping and laughing...

I feel like that when I think back to my 20s. I want to say that I thought I knew everything there was to know about life, but honestly, I think I was aware that I knew nothing about life. That’s what inspired me.

When I was in my 20s, I had a burning desire to learn more about life. I grew up in a small city with a population of around 250,000 people, at the time, and I desperately wanted to get out of that city to see what the world had to offer. 

I wanted to experience another way of life, and not just be limited to what I knew growing up, so I decided to leave. I moved to another city. That’s pretty commendable, and I’m proud of that, but here’s the stupid part. I was flat ass broke when I moved.

I had found a job prior to moving, but on the day that I was to leave my hometown, I had...

If you just gagged, trust me, I understand why.

For that entire 30 day period, he ate only McDonald’s, and by the end of that 30 days, he had eaten everything on the menu at least once. I can’t help but to wonder if that includes the McRib—which really grosses me out, but I digress.

So by the end of the documentary, Spurlock had gained 24 lbs—remember this is over the course of only 30 days—and he had given himself high cholesterol, sexual dysfunction, mood swings, and he had accumulated fat on his liver. 

He consumed really unhealthy food and quickly became unhealthy physically. He had to put in some serious work and dedication to correct the damage that he had done to his body. 

It took him a year and two months,...

When you’re in the beginning stages of choosing an idea to pursue for a business, but you have multiple ideas, it can be hard to choose just one idea to focus on. You want so badly to pick the best idea that will turn out to be wildly successful, so it’s tempting to chase them all. 

I don’t think that’s a very good plan. Let me tell you about the guy who built 3 houses that no one wanted to illustrate why.

There was a guy who decided to build a house by himself for the first time. He wanted to literally build the house with his own two hands and no contractors. His plan was build...

We call them know-it-alls, fancy pants, and maybe sometimes assholes. Don’t be those people. 

I can’t think of one instance in which a person could know so much about a subject that they could never learn something new about that subject. It’s even possible for the most expert of experts to learn something from a novice.

Many successful people claim that they never stop learning. Learning means that you’re growing and progressing from where you are to a place of better understanding.

In your business, you may find it hard to find time to fit learning something new into your schedule, but it’s actually a lot...

No, I’m not talking about some supernatural power of picking things up with your mind and throwing them across the room. 

All my gym rats out there may have previously heard the expression, “Do you even lift bro?” Whether you’re a gym rat or not, you probably understand the importance of exercising and eating healthy foods. 

Exercising can help you build muscle and replace fat, keep healthy joints, build strength and efficiency in cardiopulmonary function and so much more. Keeping your body in tip top shape so that it performs at a high level means that you eat right, exercise, and even go to the doctor for regular checkups. 

When we talk about exercising and taking care of our bodies though, we often forget about the health of one of the most important parts of our bodies—our minds. 

When it comes to your mind, do you even lift bro? Are you doing the things you should be doing to care for your mind like you would care for...

When you’re a customer, how do you treat the people who work in and own the businesses you frequent? Let’s say you go into a local restaurant and they totally screw up your order. How do you handle it? Is your first reaction to yell, scream and get irate? Or are you patient, understanding and willing to give the business the opportunity to fix it?

What about the flip side? In your business, do you provide the type of excellent customer service that you expect to get from other businesses when you’re the customer? 

Be honest.

I’ve seen people, who are entrepreneurs themselves, act a plum fool with other business owners over the smallest things. I’ve seen them be rude and condescending to the the employees of another establishment over things that could be fixed really easily.

Alternatively, I’ve seen entrepreneurs, who expect exceptional service everywhere they go, be short and unwilling to bend when their customers aren’t...

Would you rather be an entrepreneur, doing what you love but not making much money or would you rather work for someone doing something you hate but making a lot of money?

I asked this question on Instagram today.

Pretty much everyone who responded said that they would rather be an entrepreneur. The money doesn’t really matter when it comes to peace and the freedom of being your own boss.

So what are people to do when they want to be entrepreneurs but happen to really hate what they do for a living? First of all, I can definitely relate to feeling like this. Working a job you hate can cause you to feel depressed, stressed, and a shitty mess—no matter how much it pays. 

Let’s look at how that job you hate is really affecting your life, and again, I have first hand experience with this topic.

You’re probably not giving the job your all. You probably go to work and half ass it just enough to keep getting a paycheck. Your password to everything at...

I can relate to growing up with less than my parents probably wanted their children to have. My mother worked very hard to provide for her children, but we didn’t have a whole lot. 

That experience did some damage to me, and for a long time, I couldn’t find any value in it. I wished that we could have had all the riches we could have ever dreamed of and I wondered what my life would have been like if we had. 

Today, I realize that is’t all in perspective. There actually is value that can be found in the way I—and so many others—grew up. No one wants to struggle financially, but when you grow up with less, it leaves you with some qualities that can actually help you in...