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You Can’t Hide Excellence!

You can’t hide excellence. I was in the parking lot a few weeks back and a beautiful professionally wrapped Mercedes-Benz SUV caught my attention. I took down the name of the company that was on the SUV, googled it, and called the company. The company was called Blue Realty out of Coral Springs, FL. I

Mastery of Client Retention and Referrals

A few weeks back, I was talking business with a gentleman over a scotch and a cigar. The conversation leaned towards a conversation on creating a referral strategy of which you could refer quality clients back and forth to each other. One of my questions to him was, “Tell me something about your quality clients

Abundance or Scarcity? – The Choice is Yours!

Several years ago, a speaker shared something at a conference that really hit home with me, it was all about the abundant and the scarcity mindset. The abundant mindset is where we’re free and easy. We feel that we can take advantage of everything that God provides us. We’re in a creative state. We’re free

Your Blank Canvas Future!

The Vincent van Gogh’s, Pablo Picasso’s, Leonardo da Vinci’s, and Michelangelo’s, all had one thing in common in addition to being world-renowned painters and artists. Prior to displaying those beautiful historic paintings, they all started with a blank canvas, they all envisioned the end result in their mind and on the canvas before they ever

Pay Thanks to Our Veterans

This Wednesday, November 11th 2020 is Veterans Day and an opportunity for us to give thanks to those that served our country. Veterans Day began in 1919 when President Wilson declared the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month as Armistice Day; when the fighting ended in World War I. After World War II, this was

Beware of the Black Dot!

I think we, as human beings, are wired a little bit interestingly. What I mean by that is we have a tendency to focus on everything that goes wrong, the things we haven’t mastered, and have a hard time patting ourselves on the back for the things we do well. I’d like to share a

Think Outside the Box!

I would like to present a little exercise for you. Grab yourself a piece of paper along with a pen or a sharpie. Now draw nine dots on your piece of paper, just like I have below. When you complete this process, what I’d like you to do is take your pen or marker and

Don’t leave it in the hands of the judges!

Let me reveal that I’m a big UFC fan, Ultimate Fighting Championship. Why? First of all, I live in Coconut Creek, Florida. I’m about two miles from America Top Team, one of the premier facilities in the entire world. A good Bible study partner of mine was Vitor Belfort, who was an icon in the

Create your compelling scoreboard

We here in South Florida are in the final third of the Hurricane season. Fortunately, so far, we’ve been spared. However, there’s a lot going on in the gulf this year. New Orleans and Texas have been bearing the brunt of storms throughout the season. What I most remember about that area was Hurricane Katrina

Be a Quitter!

I just finished a great book called The Entrepreneur Rollercoaster by Darren Hardy and there was one particular lesson in that book that I found very profound and really stood out for me. It was a conversation Darren had with a three-times billionaire, he asked the billionaire, “What’s the secret to your success?” Obviously, a