Vid L. Buggs Jr. Shares One Tip for Choosing the Right People For Your Team In this episode of Enlightened Entrepreneur, Vid Lamonte Buggs Jr. talks about his amazing journey from being a professional basketball player into becoming a full time business owner. Vid also shares important insights about how to get started with publishing business in today’s market and what motivates him to keep moving forward.

Key Questions Asked:

How did Vid get started with his business and why did he decide to go into publishing? How long did it take for Vid to actually establish his own company? What major roadblocks did Vid have to face when he was starting to establish his company? How has Vid managed to deal with the difficulty of balancing time? Who were Vid’s mentors and what were their roles in the growth of his business? What were the common pitfalls he had fallen into and how can they be avoided by other business owners that are just starting today? What are the best tools or ways to build a team in this time and age? What were the major changes that took place in Vid’s life as well as his mindset as he transitioned from being a professional basketball player to a full time business owner? How is the world of publishing different now than when Vid first got started? Where should business owners focus their efforts if they want to succeed when it comes to self publishing? What has publishing his own book done for Vid and what opportunities has it opened for him?

Highlights of Lessons Learned:

Research, Plan, Delegate

When starting a publishing business, it is important for every business owner to do research, plan, see what the other publishers were offering and what they were lacking and build the company around that. Because the field is constatnly changing, planning and research will help all business owners to maintin their short term and long term goals. Vid’s first major mistake was trying to do everything by himself. His advice to overcome or avoid this is to delegate tasks to other people who are experts in the areas where you are weak or you might not have time for.

Establish a Team

In building a team, it is important that everyone is able to work together, otherwise your company or your product just falls apart. In looking for people to hire, Vid advises you to find people that you have chemistry with. Having a survival mindset and waking up everyday knowing that his team depends on him changed Vid’s attitude about his business.

Kimberly Smith Debunks Several Myths And Misconceptions About Real Estate Property Management In this episode of Enlightened Entrepreneur, Real Estate Property Management expert Kimberly Smith disproves some of the common myths and misconceptions aboutreal estate management that the majority of business owners tend to believe. Kimberly shares the value of real estate in one’s business and what can every entrepreneur do to become more successful in their business.

Key Questions Asked:

How did Kimberly start out in the industry and how did she become an expert in real estate property management? What is the number one myth or misconception that entrepreneurs have about real estate property management? Why is it false to believe that and how does abolishing that myth help business owners or entrepreneurs? What is the second biggest myth or the misconception that Kimberly see entrepreneurs have about real estate property management? How does Kimberly go about correcting that misconception? What is something that used to be true in the world of real estate property management but is now is no longer as effective? What is the perfect mindset an entrepreneur must have to get a certain degree of guarantee that they will achieve some level of success?

Highlights of Lessons Learned:

 Systems and Organization

Kimberly advises entrepreneurs to make sure they create a system that will make their work easier. Success is, at the end of a period of time, is looking back and figuring out over that course of that time if your business has been thriving. When you’re starting a business you, need to know what makes you tick as well as what you need to do next. Kimberly challenges start up entrepreneurs to do extensive research and don’t easily take an expert’s advice and suppose that one way fits all.

Real Estate Management

It is important for entrepreneurs to remember that not all developers are the same not all cities are the same not all foundations of buildings. As an entrepreneur, Kimberly reminds you that you have to run the numbers, you have to know your expenses and you have to understand your profit today, tomorrow, and fifteen years from now. Start-up entrepreneurs often don’t look at their real estate, but as you’re building your business, if you can develop owning your own building, it will become one of the strongest assets for your company.

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of the infinite God! I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. O my friend -- but it is too much for my strength -- I sink under the weight of the splendour of these visions! A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects.

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of the infinite God!

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects.

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of the infinite God!

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects.

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of the infinite God!

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects.