Recognizing Your Own Potential

  Perhaps you had a teacher when you were young who saw something in you and nurtured it. Maybe it was your business mentor, or the manager at your first job — we all owe a lot to the people who believed in us along the way. At some point, however, we have to...

Improving Your Hustle

  Hustle is in my blood. It was in the blood of my parents, who got it from their parents. Hustle was passed down to me from generation to generation. Now, hard work is all I know. If I don’t know something, or don’t understand something the first time around,...

Reading Past the Resume

Flash back to college–the last year or two if you can remember it–when the biggest item on your agenda as graduation approached was getting a job. Without a job you’d have no income, and without income you’d be dead broke, destined to couch surf for the...

The Importance of Hustle

  In my last blog post I wrote about tapping into your inner untapped potential. Peppered throughout the medium-length thought piece that I hope helped some readers was the idea of “hustle.” Today, the word carries a largely negative connotation. When we think of...

Tapping into Your Untapped Potential

  When we were young, amongst the various life lessons and wisdom so often imparted by adults,  one fact was often drilled into our heads by teachers and parents regarding our futures.  When we didn’t do our homework, our teachers were quick to point out that if...