SPARK: Telling Your Story

Your business is like a blank canvas to your prospective customers. They want to know what you are about, where you came from, and where you are taking them. It is critical that you tell your customers an authentic and compelling story. Having a great product or service isn’t enough anymore. Your competitors have great [...]

Permission Politics

Tired of those endless political calls that seem to show up before every election? Do you throw the phone down in anger when you realize it’s a machine on the other end? Maybe this call is from Arnold Schwarzenegger… why would Arnold want to call me you wonder? This is politics in the new millennium. [...]

Passionate Purpose Update

I posted back in November about our church building program and the struggles we were having closing the gap between rising construction costs and what was raised from the congregation. The deficit amount grew to $160,000 and we needed to close this gap so we could fund the loan and start the building project. We [...]

Success: The Giver

When I think of the title of “Giver” I think immediately of Mother Teresa or other helpful person. Someone who has given up the comforts of a normal life to help others. There are many “Givers” in our society, many whom you would never know. The person working behind the counter in a soup kitchen, [...]

Passionate Purpose

I read with some interest Steve Pavlina’s article the other day entitled the “Million Dollar Experiment.” In the article Steve talks about putting an intention out to the universe and have it radiate back to bring a million dollars into his life. He explains… I’ve decided to try a new experiment to see if I [...]

The Definition of Success

What is the definition of success? I looked at Webster’s dictionary and they have “The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted:” as their definition. This is a start, but what if success is not an achievement? I opened another book, Celebrating Success by Gerard Smith that has inspired letters on the meaning of success. [...]