Do you have a no-matter-what-it-takes attitude? If you start out that way it is likely you will continue through until you achieve those things that you set out to accomplish. Your activity may change, your tasks may look different, your routines may rearrange, but your underlying why remains the same. And the drive behind it; the impetus that you began with, remains the same. No Matter What it Takes says that I will continue to learn and grow and progress until I get to the finish line. Until

There are a lot of things you can measure as you embark on any endeavor. You can measure the number of calls you make in a given day. The number of contacts you make. The number of people that follow you through the sales process. And you can measure actual sales. But the fact is, if you do not decide to measure something you will never know if your efforts are producing results. At least not results that you can optimize and improve upon.Deciding what to measure depends on your particular goal

On the way to church Sunday morning I saw a man on a bicycle cross the road in front of me not too far ahead and turn onto a side street. Only thing I thought was how foolish it was to cross where he did, when he did, and how dangerous. I was too busy thinking critically of the man to notice what my wife did. When she told me I was amazed.The man had no legs. Only prosthetic. He was a double amputee and he was out in the cold of the morning going where he had to go. I have no idea where he was

I noticed on the way into work this morning something that seemed profound to me. The manufactured light posts were standing tall near the warehouse part of our factory. And off to the left as we drove in the mile or so to the main building, the trees stood tall in the dark and fog of the brisk morning. And I thought this, "Have you noticed that all strong things stand upright?" The trees. The light posts. Even my grandfather in his final years with failing health stood upright. Hunched a bit b