Recently I was speaking at a conference, and someone came up to me afterwards and asked how she could grow her business and still be a great mother; she said she just didn’t have enough time. Great question, I get it a lot from parents. I’ve tackled this in my own life, because I want a great business but not at the expense of my family who are more important to me than any business ever could be.

Many people subscribe to the idea that to get a high return you must take a high risk, that low risk leads to low return. I think this keeps people poor, because they either lose a lot or fail to make meaningful returns.

Recently I’ve been getting somewhat tired of all the people on Facebook claiming to be ‘Kings’, and ‘Lions’. You know the ones, generally they write it in CAPITALS. The ones for whom Facebook has become a platform to feed their narcissism, where they can chest beat and get comments like, ‘on it brother #thebeast’, ‘beautiful’, ‘amazing, ‘inspirational’ (real comments). They are missing the point that there are actually three types of people:

In the western world of infinite possibility, anything is possible. At what point did you start blaming others, the government, the bureaucracy, your boss etc.  for your life not being how you want it.

I’m not talking about the top 1% of money earners, which is all relative anyway depending on what you’re referencing, I’m talking about the vocal 1% who don’t get you. You know who I’m talking about; the peers who don’t think you can do something, the customers who are never happy and love telling you about it, the suppliers who never deliver…