How About a Little Cheese with your Whine

A force exists between all living creatures. Call it whatever makes you comfortable, but don’t deny that it exists. Every day, each one of us contributes to the strength of that force or we degrade it. You decide in each moment which one you’re going to do. We’d all behave differently if, at the end [...]

Love the One You’re With

Stephen Stills wrote and recorded the song “Love the One You’re With” in 1970 and it made it into the top 20. The next year, it was recorded by The Isley Brothers and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. Both versions made it into the top 20 also. Perhaps it’s time for a remake. Never has [...]

Taking Things in Stride

I’m riding in a car with the five other smal lbusiness owners that make up my C3 Forum group. We’re headed to central Michigan for our annual retreat. I’ve been in this group for well over a decade. We’ve watched each other’s businesses grow (and shrink) over the years. Times are hard on many of [...]

Catching Up

I had breakfast with my friend Tom McKenna last Friday. I had not seen him in a fee years. It was fantastic catching up with him. He told me of his escapades in Ohio and about his grandchildren. I told him about my family and gave an update on my business. We had a great [...]

Listening and Talking are Harder Than They Seem

Port-to-Port Consulting has an all day retreat every year on Martin Luther King Jr Day. Each year, I try to focus the day on a theme that seems to be important to our ability to move forward. This year’s theme was one of values. We worked from the “me” perspective to the ‘us” perspective to [...]

Slowing Down

This is the time of year when many of us are thinking about the future. Lots of us have recently made resolutions to be different. Some of us have already abandoned those resolutions. I am no fan of New Year’s resolutions. I’m not generally a fan of resolutions at all. They are just “I intend [...]