One idea that the late, great Dave Thomas left us with was this, don’t cut corners. How often do you or those around you attempt to save time or money by cutting corners? Does cutting corners make your company more attractive or less so?

Losers don’t get ice cream. If you want ice cream, put forward the effort and win. You cannot appreciate what you did not earn. That which is earned by sweat and determination is held dear and is precious.

Why is Missouri the “Show Me” State and how does that apply to our journey to be positive and productive people? Are we spending all of our time talking about what we are going to do or actually doing it?

Today we take a moment for self-assessment and reflection. In other words, it is gut check time. Let us see where we are on the road to developing good habits and discipline. This is also a good opportunity to take a look at our goals.

We need to have discipline to be productive and to advance. How do we learn to instill discipline in ourselves? How can we help others to be disciplined in their behavior?

True absolutes in life are few and far between. The Ten Commandments are absolutes. The Four Universal Firearms Safety Rules are absolutes. Absolutes are the refuge of the intellectually lazy and the tyrant.

Too often, our modern generation confuses the words desire or deserve. They also use the aforementioned words interchangeably. Desire and deserve have different meanings and we need to understand them.

A life raft is an important emergency stop gap, it keeps us from drowning. But, we are not meant to live on a life raft, that is supposed to be temporary. Too many people cling to the life raft and have no engine or rudder to get them going in the right direction.

Weeds and saplings take away the energy from health plants in nature. Do you have weeds in your life that are choking you? Are there saplings stealing away your strength?

There are two primary forms of investment capital; time and money. What you need to ask yourself is; am I worth the investment of the money and the time? How do you spend your time and money?...