Bigg Success

Picture a group of adults given a task to perform. Research has shown that, if one adult performs worse than his or her peers on that task, it will result in a loss of self-esteem. Furthermore, that person is likely to perform more poorly on that same ...

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a great article for The New Yorker a while ago. He talks about how David beats Goliath. It’s a great read full of stories about underdogs. The main story is about a girl’s basketball team that made the national ...

It’s one of the most famous opening lines of any novel. Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, wrote, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Could the same be true for small business owners today? ___ ___ Many small ...

People who reach bigg success aren’t constrained by the same forces we are. Baloney! It’s a myth that we all aren’t constrained in the same ways. But there’s a bigg difference between the average Joe or Jane and people who ...

Bigg Success is two years old today! What a two years it has been! Over the past two years, you’ve given us two thumbs up in so many ways. You’ve made us one of the regularly featured business career podcasts in iTunes. You’ve helped us ...

It was a beautiful day in our area on Sunday so we decided to go for a drive. There’s an outlet mall about thirty from us. So we stopped and shopped! We like to combine work and play. While we were playing, we got a couple of ideas for post, ...

U2 is on tour again. They’re playing at sold-out stadiums and getting rave re. Before a crowd of 60,000 people in Norman, Oklahoma recently, lead singer Bono said something we found particularly interesting, “It took us 26 years to travel one ...

A recent MSNBC article says there aren’t many shopaholics left due to the recession. Then it explores how retailers are responding to frugal consumers for the upcoming holiday season, which accounts for up to twenty percent of annual sales for many ...

A recent MSNBC article says there aren’t many shopaholics left due to the recession. Then it explores how retailers are responding to frugal consumers for the upcoming holiday season, which accounts for up to twenty percent of annual sales for many ...

With Game 6 of the World Series upon us, we found a fascinating article from Time entitled Sport: A Game of Inches. It’s from July 1957. ___ ___ It’s about George Robert Tebbetts who gave 53 years of his life to Major League Baseball – ...

It’s another age-old nature / nurture question – are entrepreneurs born or are they made? Can the essential skills be taught or do you have to learn from experience? ___ ___ There’s a great book by Richard Goossen called ...

It’s another age-old nature / nurture question – are entrepreneurs born or are they made? Can the essential skills be taught or do you have to learn from experience? ___ ___ There’s a great book by Richard Goossen called ...

No storm lasts forever. That's just as true of financial storms as it is natural ones. However, in the midst of a storm, that knowledge may not offer much solace. The news has been full of storm clouds. Among other indicators, unemployment is rising. ...

Here’s a story we’ve been told our whole life: ___ ___ You choose a career. You get a job. It pays the bills. Life is good. You live happily ever after. If you’re lucky. Because … If you’re lucky, you love your job. If ...

We include an audio clip of the two of us going through a real Haunted House. If you want to hear it, listen to today’s show! ___ ___ ___ Mary-Lynn and I recently went out on a date and it was scary! ___ ___ Even scarier than our first ...

Once upon a time, in a land of plenty, there lived a young person named Jordan. Every night, Jordan dreamed of growing up and making a bigg difference in the world. This young person dreamed of bigg success. Then one night, Jordan had a haunting dream. ...

This is our installment of Music Lessons. Today, we’re going to look at a song by Sister Hazel. Their tour starts today so Hazel Nuts are going gaga. Their new album, Release, has been a hit. It’s the #1 rock album in iTunes. ___ ___ But our ...

Here are two key principles to never forget: 1. You are the entrepreneur of your life; you and only you are in charge of it. 2. If it works for you, it works. ___ ___ With these two principles in mind, you can steer your way through good times and bad ...

Today we’ll wrap up our series on abundant living. We’re tired of hearing about scarcity so we thought it was time to talk about the other side of things. Before we introduce our fifth and final step, let’s talk about something we ...