Love this insight about understanding risk! So true and a wonderful way to see it…

Thank you, Larry! Hope you are doing well also.

Today I’m grateful for Aaron Wallace-Go Aaron!!

Love this! Our interactions are soo important!
Aaron Stull is the man! He has the Magic!

Everyday I am glad to be a subscriber. Thank you for your efforts in making me a better me.

Great post, Larry! I think I’ve shared this before, but I call it ‘the imperative why’ – it’s what determines the what, when, where, how, and with whom, and everything that goes with those decisions, in our lives and the choices we make.

‘Why’ is what drives everything we do as sentient beings. We may not recognize it as ‘why’, or be intentional about the understanding of our why – we may classify it as a want or a need – but it’s always ‘why’.

Think about small children… pretty much as soon as they’re able to reason, the first thing they ask about any request of them or direction to them is, “Why?” They likely don’t consciously think of it this way, but they inherently want to know what makes the thing they’re about to do the right thing to do, if they’re going to be ok after they do it, what’s the adult’s rationale for wanting them to do it, and if it’s worth the investment of their (limited) resources to follow through; and we never stop asking that question if we’re smart and purposeful with our lives. Asking ‘why’ seems to be programmed into our learning how to make good decisions.

As adults searching for meaning when life takes twists and turns, the thing that inspires, or haunts, us – the thing we MUST know to find the purpose of a thing or event – is, “Why?”.

Even when Moses asked God who He was at the burning bush, what he was really saying was, “This is a tall order; why would I do all this that your telling me to do?” We know the answer now, but he didn’t then…

‘Why’ drives everything we do; whether we recognize or acknowledge it or not, it’s the imperative question in our lives from which we answer all others.
Whether it’s me answering this post, or you getting more than twice the merit badges you needed to become an Eagle Scout, there’s a why behind everything we do.

Thanks as always for a great, thought-provoking post, Larry!
Have a Great Day!!

The question for most people should be, Do you have a why that makes you cry ?

A key to long term employee engagement: Your WHY and Vision must grow as your business grows to ensure it’s big enough for your employees vision to be realized and expand within it.

My “Why” is to help as many people as I can to better their life in every way. This starts at home with my wife and children and extends to immediate family. However, my business allows me to help countless others and I want to grow my business for that simple reason. I fully believe that we can change the world for the better by simply being good and doing good to everyone we come in contact with. A business that provides valuable and needed goods and/or services gives us the opportunity to be useful, productive and positively influence people at the same time.

What does success look like? Success is when I have only positive impacts on everyone that I come in contact with. I want to leave everyone in a better state than when I first met them.

Failure would be doing something that directly affects someone in a way that negatively impacts their life and then not making it right with them.

I want to succeed so that the world is a better place for all future generations.

I’ve made this mistake too many times. I have found it’s better to have no answer than the wrong one. Thanks for the reminder.

As a past manager I came to this kind of on my own. I understood that people have a need go gossip and often feel that management is keeping thing from them .. this seems more dramatic. When the answer I came to is that the manager should wait until things solidify and are certain to pass along information. Some things are in limbo because management above you is still working out a plan of action .. no need to pass this along. Some things are a work in progress, where you know the direction, but have not worked how how to get there yet .. no need to pass this along. I’m sure there are other situations .. but in general .. wait until things are firm before passing along what they are and how your people need to contribute.

I’m grateful for you too, Larry!

I have found at times I need to let someone else do our training.
I become frustrated at repeating the same thing over and over and not getting the results I want. So by letting someone else say it in a different way can sometimes be what’s needed.

My business has had mixed impact on my family. Financially is has had a very positive effect. I love to work, and am passionate about customer service so I tend to do too much myself and work too many hours. This has cost me in not being able to build a close relationship with my grand children and not spending time with my adult children and friends.
Working on changing that by delegating more, but it is a slow process.

We did not have a home we could be into until my business got started, our business takes care of our family, and provides a working foundation to take care of our family now and in the future.

Good morning from Indianapolis!

Good morning from Indianapolis!!

Allowing Negative outlier thoughts through. When instead focusing on what I want to achieve.

Definitely the mountain inside, the nay sayer voices inside of my head that make me second guess myself, and yet the burning inside of me say’s I can make a difference for those around me.

I am now listening to Dock Street. Thank you for having them speak at the Invictus Theatre in your building last year, Larry.

Listen to the people who have already found success where you want to. I hear from these folks each Monday on the Learning Leader Podcast with Ryan Hawk.

Good Morning Larry!

Hi Larry!
I’ve been a Building contractor for 40 years too! I’m also broke, tired and sad!
Maybe you want to buy my business?

Thank you Larry for taking the time to come visit the team at Johns Waterproofing. It went a long way with the whole team. The foreman where talking about how they appreciated it this morning. I was thankful for the shoutout this morning as well.