Calgary (a beautiful place not far from Canada’s wild Rocky Mountains – you should visit, it is impressive), is in the midst of transformation. An oil city for the last hundred years or so, Calgary is aggressively trying to diversify, while remaining proud of its …
Why Money Can’t Be Your Barometer for Success
It’s funny how experience and age change context… Remember when we were 23, fresh out of college, feeling enlightened, and loaded with an opinion on just about everything? How silly we were. We didn’t know shit about the real world, but you’d better not have …
Tenant Upward Mobility and Real Estate Investing
One of the more critical components to achieving the highest level of return on investment from a rental property is avoiding high tenant turnover. Every time a tenant moves out of your investment property, you, the landlord, have to put money back into the place. …
Time, Treasure and Talent Are Yours to Hone
An entrepreneur has three distinct tools to positively impact their business, community, industry and possibly even the world. If you’re not utilizing all three entrepreneurial tools, simply put, you’re never going to reach your full potential as an entrepreneur. Let me explain… Three Tools Every …
Be One of One
We’re all born one of one or one of a kind. That’s what makes us unique. However, over time and as we grow, we slowly become more like the people around us – be it how we speak, dress or think. Our societal structure essentially …
Traveling to the Holy Land, A.K.A. Startup Nation
Necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes, to energize your innovative self, you need to be backed into a corner. In no country that I’ve traveled to is that more evident than in Israel, which is where I’ve been for nearly the past ten days. …
How Pirates Crushed Serfdom and Disrupted the Power Structure
The Misfit Economy, written by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips, is a book about the creativity required, and ‘against the grain thinking’ needed, to create a movement behind a new venture in the modern world. When I saw the book on the stand at …
What Being a Bank Teller Taught Me About Money
My first job out of college was a bank teller – a humbling experience making $14 an hour after being a collegiate athlete. Beneficially, and in addition to giving me a healthy dose of humble pie, the job taught me a ton about people and …
Are You a Truly Successful Entrepreneur?
Keeping score in business is a big deal for me. And it’s not simply because I’m a competitive person… As an entrepreneur, it can be hard to tell if what you are doing is what you should be doing – or, in other words, if …