When my kids were younger they would have parent reader days at school. Instead of brining a book we wrote one together and then I had it illustrated. The result was some smiling kids as a read a story about them to their classmates. The tale is modeled after the story of David & Goliath

When I was 10 years old, I got my two younger brothers into a room and told them that we were going to start a company. We were going to call it BWG, Inc. (my initials, of course). All I needed were some business cards, memo pads, and to choose which of our bedrooms would be our HQ. We didn’t have a product or service to sell, but that wasn’t important to us yet. First and foremost, we needed to have meetings.

Being wrong is such an important part of being right. Our product offering is likely wrong, but we have a product offering. Our sales process is probably not right, but we have a process. The newsletter frequency and content could be improved, but we have a daily and weekly newsletter.

Most of the items we place in our todo lists are tactical and specific in nature. Because of this, we sometimes we lose our broader perspective. In order to ensure the minutia is aligned with our mission, here are some things to do every day.

In 2008 the markets crashed. It was bad. I was a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch and I had experienced some success. It was a hard climb from a rookie to sales manager but I learned a ton. That journey forever changed me and very much made me who I am today.