by LivingROI | Jul 22, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, One hundred years ago, Thomas and Katherine Fagan had their first of nine children on a farm near a small town in Wisconsin. They went on to have eight more children who, in turn, gave them 36 grandchildren. I am one of those grandchildren; nearly the...
by LivingROI | Jul 15, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, When I applied to Humboldt State University in 1982, I didn’t get in. Since the acceptance rate was probably upward of 80% (compared to between 5% and 12% for the most competitive schools today), not getting in was quite a feat. So, most people who...
by LivingROI | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, The concept of getting what you think about is not a new idea. In fact, the belief that our thoughts shape our lives has been around for as long as humankind has philosophized. As Earl Nightingale, author of “We Become What We Think About,” wrote in the...
by LivingROI | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, Tomorrow morning my daughter Marina returns from a three-week backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the same area I backpacked a few years ago. I miss her! My heart is with her up in those mountains, and my mind has been on the memory of my...
by LivingROI | Jun 24, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, In October of 2002, our client overpaid us $315K. It came at a crazy moment. We had been working for this client for a year, and we were growing quickly. When we started the project, in our glorious naivete, we asked to be paid in advance for our work,...
by LivingROI | Jun 17, 2018 | Blog
Dear Friends, Several of you asked to hear more about “Más Pelotas Que Nadie,” which I mentioned in my newsletter last week. So here it is, a tale of tenacity and T-shirts, with evergreen business and life lessons. In 1991, I moved from London to Madrid to start a...
