Learn how to identify two types of people that never get ahead and NOT be one of them.

This is really straight forward stuff. There are two types of peole that are never going to be able to make the grade and get ahead: Those that do nothing more than they are told and the ones that don’t even do what they are told. In today’s world its not impossible to keep your [...]

How to find your personally relevant ‘Why’

Yesterday afternoon (now Monday afternoon) I called Tom, my associate in XELR8, and had a discussion with him for about an hour. It consisted of the usual, my placing the call and we talk about a variety of things that affect our businesses but we don’t talk much about ‘the business’. Why is this? Because [...]

Avoid the lottery mentality trap

“Minnesota normally sells between seven and nine million tickets a week - more if the Powerball jackpot is big.”
This is the estimated quote that I recieved when requesting information from the state of Minnesota (my home state) about how many people purchase lottery tickets throughout the year. They went on to say that more detailed [...]

What is your ‘Why’?

Seems like a strange question doesn’t it? However, the truth is that there is a reason or a why for everything that we do. There are countless motivations for doing any number of things and that is what is at the heart of that thing you do. For example, if you prefer [...]

Passion for Significance


Adventures in Rocket Science

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller
There is no better example of this than Dexter himself. Dexter’s life is life is full of adventure, mishaps, and imagination. He’s absolutely hilarious and his ideas of terrorizing his little sister makes the big brother in me proud (hehe).
In all [...]