3/30/2010, Elementary & Middle School Years, Value System Set, My Aunts Aunt Ida: I’m not sure if my grandfather assigned my Aunt Ida the task of making sure I completed my homework and did well in school. Ida was his youngest daughter. Ida was a “warrior” type personality. Direct yet loving. There was no misunderstanding [...]
Judging from the title of this post you might think that I’m correlating a relationship between having a good business with a prerequisite of having a good education. That’s partially true, but that’s not what we’re going to discuss today; today I want to expand on the idea of educating your customers and clients on [...]
I learned early in life that loaning money to family and friends could ruin valuable relationships. It is not the best idea to loan money to friends and family if you do not have it to lose. I personally feel that the best thing to do is to give the person in need the money [...]
3/23/2010, The Elementary & Middle School Years, Lessons from My Grandfather Ernest and I organized all our little league baseball and basketball games in the community. Ernest arranged for us to play teams from other communities and I would help recruit some of the local players. In our neighborhood, baseball was “King” so we always [...]
I’ve been thinking about the status quo lately and how that relates to our inability to make decisions. There seems to be a correlation with us being average and the state of the current economy. We’re stuck in a country full of “averages”, average people living average lives, doing average things, eating average food (actually [...]
In the beginning of my 8th grade year my mother moved our family to Minnesota without her husband at the time. The man of our house was in prison, which wasn’t the first or last time that he was there. Minnesota was for the better in my mother’s eyes because she had more opportunities there [...]
3/16/2010, Chicago, 1963 Grandfather left Arkansas and found work in a paper factory. He rented a small apartment on Chicago’s west side. He sent for us in 1963: Grandmother, my aunts Betty and Ida, and me. Houses and apartment buildings; jammed together. Constant street noise from traffic and the conversations of thousands of people. No [...]
According to the reports and statistics from the media, we live in a recession and about 10.4% of Americans are unemployed. It’s not surprising when you think about, if I had to make a guess I would think that a majority of those unemployed Americans weren’t satisfied with their jobs to begin with. It was [...]
A child without guidance is like a baby duck without its mother; he or she will not be guided in the right direction. I was that child without guidance. I was left to learn, which turned out to be the hard way. Crime and negativity surrounded me. Being a child, I figured this was life. [...]
Minneapolis, 3/9/2010 In December of 2009 a friend asked me to speak to group of successful business people on the origins of Osiris Organization at his Wednesday morning group he had just joined. Oddly enough, recalling memories, mainly about my grandfather, my speech preparation set in motion introspective thoughts about my early life. Reflections during [...]
