Small business is a lot harder than it looks from the outside. It gets so 'daily', and burn out is real. So entrepreneurs need both of these things: wisdom and joy, to keep going. If you aren't laughing at least once per day while working hard, you're doing something wrong.

Do you practice active listening? It really DOES take practice––mostly just to stop your racing mind. What if you used that energy to listen carefully enough to repeat back what that person just said, to make sure you understand them correctly? Escucha!

Happy Birthday Art Buchwald Oct 20, 1925 - Jan 17, 2007 Journalist for the W Post, & won the Pulitzer in 1982 & 1986. In a 2008 interview, Art confessed to carrying this quote in his pocket. This morning & every morning, this quote comforts me. Press on. #MakeMoreArt

Never underestimate the micro change. A one degree change in trajectory can land you in a completely different universe.

Hopefully your Monday is off to a great start, and you are using your head for something completely different.

Happy Birthday Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Try to see things with new eyes today.

How do you remember to live in the moment? If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Enjoy the ride. Happy Friday.

We provide custom graphics for a local company that does small aircraft maintenance. They take their work very seriously. The one who wires the instrument panel gets to fly it first. Woah. That's called LEADERSHIP and confidence in your work.

I LOVE this quote by James Autry, retired executive from Meredith Publishing, featured at an I-80 rest stop in Iowa.

Don't give up too soon. You never know when the very next effort you make might be the next unforgettable thing that goes down in history for like forever.

Happy Birthday Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau October 14, 1801 – September 15, 1883 Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image, and the inventor of the phenakistiscope.

Happy Birthday E.E. Cummings October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962 "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

This is the equivalent of one photo on your phone today.

4.5 MB of data on 62,500 punched cards. And I'm old enough to remember when this was done.

Happy Birthday E.E. Cummings October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962 "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

This is why attempting to run a small business while doing something you don't really enjoy is most likely an unsustainable venture. Just saying. Every job has some elements we don't particularly like. But we spend too much time at work to dislike the majority of our work.

Perspective. It's pretty much everything.

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.

Guess what? It's not a Department. It's your whole business or it's nothing at all.

Time to focus your energies. Having a focal point is important in art composition. It's also important in the composition of your week: "The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish." Nietzsche