The quick CRM update.
The manual follow-up email.
The account research before a call.
Individually, they’re nothing.
But they add up.
Ten of those a day is nearly an hour of lost selling time.
Every single day.
Multiply that for a month, and you’re losing hundreds of hours that could have been spent closing deals.
This is how sales productivity silently dies.
Not in one big breakdown, but in a thousand tiny cuts to your team's focus and time.
Busyness is the biggest addiction in business.
It feels productive, but it’s usually avoidance.
The calendar tells the truth.
You can say whatever you want about priorities, but your schedule shows what matters.
Money follows focus.
Scattered hours create scattered results.
Your inputs decide your outcomes.
Change the way you spend time, and your results will follow.
Most people confuse movement with progress.
Just because you’re busy doesn’t mean you’re moving forward.
Time invested beats time spent.
Every hour either builds your future or buries it.
Profit hides in your calendar.
You can see exactly why you’re winning or losing by where your hours go.
If you don’t value your time, nobody else will.
People treat your time the way you do. Guard it.
Economists at NBER use a more complicated rubric to define a recession. The organization looks at six economic indicators: nonfarm payrolls, industrial production, personal income, employment, personal consumption, and manufacturing sales.
People also attempt to define recessions in more creative ways. The “men’s underwear index” states that sales of men’s underwear fall during recessions, and the “lipstick index” says people skip big purchases for small luxuries like lipstick.
Social media users identified something they called a “vibecession” in the early 2020s, citing the comeback of high-energy “recession pop” music and the prevalence of “recession blondes” who opt for lower-maintenance hairstyles.
Ultimately, many recessions are called retroactive.
Business owners can use the free online calculator to boost their bottomline during good times or bad!!
You pay with risk, sacrifice, and sweat.
Anyone who says “must be nice” just wasn’t willing to write the check.
Resentment is louder than applause.
Most people won’t say “congratulations.”
They’ll say it under their breath: “must be nice.”
The wrong crowd will shrink you.
You’ll start playing smaller so they feel bigger.
Winners want you to win.
In the right room, your success fuels everyone.
In this week’s video, you’ll see how one act of kindness doesn’t just change the day for someone else — it transforms the person who gives it. It’s a beautiful ripple effect that reminds us:
We rise by lifting others.
It’s easy to get caught up in our own worries, our own grind, our own needs. But when we take a moment to bless someone else — to lend a hand, to share a smile, to speak life into them — we’re building something far bigger than ourselves.
This week, be that blessing.
Because when we lift others, we rise too — in joy, in hope, and in the kind of purpose this world desperately needs more of.
Let’s pay it forward today.
When he realizes he can’t carry all these things with his own two hands, he’ll want a bat bag.
He’ll spend hours begging you to go out in the yard to play with him. He’ll insist. And his insistence will win!
Then, he’ll not want to go back in the house for dinner and will swear that even at dusk there is enough light to continue playing!
The backyard will get too small, and he’ll want to go the baseball field to see how far he can hit and throw. Finally, he learns to catch and then he wants friends to play with.
When he gets a jersey, he’ll want pants, socks, a belt, and a hat to go with it! And a TEAM!!!
Then, life as you know will end!
There will be no more lazy weekends. You’ll see more sunrises than you ever thought possible! Every spare minute will be spent hauling buckets, bags, stinky cleats, and crazy boys all over tarnation for practice and games. Your car will be dirty.
All because you gave a boy a baseball!
Your weekends will be spent freezing in the cold or burning in the hot summer sun! His weekends will be spent gaining confidence and friends, learning new skills, and having fun getting so dirty you’ll learn a whole new way to do laundry!
You’ll be there the day he has his first strikeout, double play and hits his first home run! And he’ll make you so proud. The other parents will congratulate you. But you feel weird saying thank you because it’s not you at bat or on the mound. It’s all him . . . He did this.
His smile will grow bigger and each year that he plays, he’ll get better and better. His love for the game, and confidence in himself will grow right along with his jersey size!
Right before your eyes, your little boy will be transformed from the baby who spun around with his head on the bat, into a pitcher. Because he still loves attention.
Then he might try to be a catcher, outfielder, or infielder because baseball teaches him that he can be anything he wants!
When you give a boy a baseball, you give him a sport, a talent, hope, dreams, friends, a new family, and a place to learn about life with room to grow as a person where he can push his limits, bravery, courage, life, and memories. He’ll have all of these things, simply because you gave a boy a baseball.
You too will develop new/lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the game and love of your team. You’ll cheer together, all because you gave a boy a baseball.
Then one day, many years from today, he’ll be in his room and a baseball will roll out from an old dusty bat bag. He’ll pick it up and realize instantly that when you gave that boy a baseball, you also gave him a childhood that he would never forget!
Then he’ll hug you, and your eyes may leak – because you realize that everything YOU gave up along the way was worth it!
All because you gave a boy a baseball!
