Quick, fill in the blank. Money is ______. Whatever you came up with, that’s part of your money mindset. What is a money mindset? It’s a complex schema that you’ve developed over the course of your life that can either help or hinder your success. You need to cultivate a healthy mindset around money if you want to become wealthy.

If you don’t have a coach, you’re putting a serious cap on your own potential. As a business coach myself, I’m obviously biased on this one. I can’t know how well coaching will work for you. But one thing is for sure: coaching works.

Succeeding as an entrepreneur requires being competent at sales. And if we define sales as simply communicating the value of an idea or action, it is safe to say that everyone is a salesperson.

Imagine waiting in line for a roller coaster. You watch the line slowly grow shorter as the people in front of you get on. Some of them look excited. Others are laughing nervously. A few minutes later, they exit the roller coaster smiling. You try to imagine what the ride must have been like.

“Do what you love and the money will follow” is bullshit. The truth? Knowing how to get paid for your passion is just as important as uncovering it in the first place.

Productivity is a disease. Seriously. I really think that our obsession with getting things done has become a global sickness. Notice what I said there. The disease is not procrastination. It’s actually our desire to be optimally productive and efficient all the time.

She must have been five feet tall but she laid me out.“I’m not very good at that move,” she said. “Really? It seemed pretty good to me.” This is what happened last night at Aikido practice. I only started learning the Japanese martial art about five months ago. I'm a beginner, so it's okay.

Any act of creation, whether it is a piece of art or a new business, starts off as a vision. Think about it: Everything manmade that we can see around us began in someone's imagination. If you are a small business owner or entrepreneur, your ability to get other people (clients, customers, investors) to buy into your vision is paramount.

Still searching blindly for your niche? Stop that. This Tuesday, I launched my new website. And I’m really proud of it. Not just because it looks good, but because it reflects perfectly who I am and who I work with. Believe me: it wasn’t always that way.