Great advice this morning, thank you! I’m currently in the process of moving my family 800 miles away from where we live now to start my fitness business in Florida. The longer it’s taking, the more I think about what could go wrong. I count on your blog each morning! Thank you. Have an awesome day!

I like to say “I need to treat everyone fairly, but not equally”. Living in a performance based business.

Right!

If you define equality in terms of “stuff,” then at some level freedom and equality are conflicting concepts.
However, if you understand equality in terms of opportunity, not outcomes, then you understand that the most effective way to promote equality is to promote freedom.
Each of us makes choices in our life. Each choice leads to different outcomes. Who wants to live in a world where everyone is guaranteed exactly the same outcome? Try Cuba. It is a system based upon someone else deciding what you and I will have or not have and it leads to equally shared misery. Denied freedom, the human spirit fails to thrive.

I wish more people understood this concept.

Thanks.

Unification Act ???
Never going to happen in my world !

Thanks Jane & David for your fantastic comments. I live in a country that is essentially communistic, the opposite to what you are promoting. All you need to do is look at the mess and the millions of unhappy, deprived people, all living without dignity, then you will know what you are saying is 110% true. Look “under the people” and you will see the rot of the dictators who only care about themselves.
No, I do not live in misery as I refuse to be part of that system. Let us face it: the communist have to get their wealth from somewhere, so they are happy to let me do my thing and take more than their fare share.
Education. Education. Education.
Keep up the great thoughts and comments.

Change our direction of our company( after 30 years) and make it
scalable ! With the added bonus of making it exciting again 🙂 Yes, it’s possible!

I know things change. I shall change with them. Then I will change things!

Good luck with the house.

I like the phrase ” overnight success 20 years in the making “

A fable about the hot dogs: There was this elderly man who had a profitable little business selling hot dogs on a busy street corner in a major city. He wasn’t particularly well educated, but he sold great hot dogs and his customers loved him.

During the early morning rush hour, he’d wheel his mobile hot dog stand to position it near the exit of the central railway station in town. A year ago he’d added a bacon and egg roll to his range and sold scores of them to this breakfast crowd every day. At lunchtime, he’d move his stand to a popular park where he had lines of regulars.

In the afternoon he’d be back at the station entrance and then later most nights he knew a great spot near a nightclub where patrons rushed him off his feet. He had even installed special lighting and a flashing neon sign. Even people driving by would stop.

He’d worked hard for years arid done well enough to put his only son through university who later became a management consultant with a large firm.

One day his son warned him that a recession was on the way. The old man asked his son what this meant. Being an educated man his son gave a very detailed explanation of how the recession would severely impact every person in the community, particularly small business people like his father. There would be enormous unemployment; people would not be able to afford to spend money as they did now. He painted a gloomy picture of the future and warned his father that it would be wise to cut back on his expenses and “tighten his belt” financially and prepare for the worst. The old man didn’t know much about the economy or interest rates, but he trusted his son. After all, he was an educated man. Recession mentality kicked in …

The old man began to cut back on the quantity of sausages and bread rolls he bought. He didn’t want to get caught with stale rolls as business began to drop off. But it was hard to judge and some days he actually ran out of sausages and rolls earlier than he normally would. So he went home early and spent more time worrying about this recession that was coming.

Soon he knew that what his son had said was right. He noticed that his takings were indeed falling. This depressed him more and so he tended to get out of bed later each day. After all, why get to the station so early when obviously more people would be eating at home rather than spending money on breakfast in the city. He decided that his bacon and egg rolls were too expensive for most people now. After all, they were twice the price of a hot dog, so he cut them from his menu and his sales continued to plummet.

Wow, his son was right, this recession was hitting hard!

He decided to save more money and not replace the batteries that powered his neon sign and lights at night. Now because he was in the dark, fewer people bought from him and soon he decided that it wasn’t even worth his time setting up at night. Eventually he decided to sell off his equipment and his trolley. He was in luck though because the woman who bought his trolley didn’t seem to know how bad business was, or how severe the recession was going to be. He managed to unload the trolley for more than he thought he would get. Now day after day he stayed at home, depressed, and occasionally ~his son would ‘visit him and they would discuss how bad the recession was, and how lucky the old man had been to have an educated son who had warned him in advance about this terrible recession.

So what’s the moral of this story?

Recession mentality starts in one’s own head. If you believe that a recession is coming and that times will soon be tough, then they will be for you. Like the old man in the story, you’ll start to change your successful behavior patterns and replace them with less resourceful habits. You’ll sleep in later. You’ll take longer lunch breaks, make fewer phone calls, generate less e-mail, and go home earlier.

But it needn’t be that way …

Yes – solid perspective here.

Well said Larry

Klaus Larsen
Great story thank you for sharing 🙂

Love it!!

Good morning Larry

Meeting with 2 potential sales people today:) can’t wait to put the whole team together!

Wow!

Larry,
I am not sure how, but your think daily’s always seem to relate to me at that exact date and time. I always need a good pick me up. Over here at Adavanced Basement Systems we all get the think daily and it helps motivate the team.!
Thank you for the constant inspiration.