Category Archives: Expanding Your Opportunities

Envisioning And Attaining An Ideal Scene

Posted on July 26, 2015 by David

Envision This: An ideal scene is a desirable future. You should be able to envision an ideal scene and be able to attain it by completing real actions that are actually doable. So an ideal scene is something that should … Continue reading →

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“Glory Days” and the inexorable progression of games

Posted on January 1, 2014 by David

The Bruce Springsteen song “Glory Days” captures our nostalgia for times when we were young and strong and successful in some extraordinary way. Any mention of those glory days is a poignant reminder of our current inability to recreate the  … Continue reading →

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Understanding Exchange

Posted on October 16, 2013 by David

If you want anything in life you have to figure out how to create an exchange between yourself and someone else. It is really that simple. In order for an exchange to occur, you need to find out what the … Continue reading →

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Business planning the easy way – what do people need?

Posted on June 6, 2012 by David St Lawrence

EphemeraI was helping a friend last night with the planning for a family business that would utilize  their skills and give them the freedom to travel and would leave them financially set when they were ready to retire.

They have been working on this project for several years and had not been making much headway so I was invited to pich in and see what advice I could offer.

The description of their business planning seemed remarkably like what appears in the pages of Entrepreneur Magazine, but on a smaller scale. They had done a skills inventory, some financial planning, and they were carefully working on the details on how all of this was going to come together.

He is a talented engineer and she is an experienced program manager so they have a fair amount of technical horsepower to apply to almost any problem.

The one thing that kept sticking them was deciding on a product or service that they would produce or provide. They have been wrestling with this issue ever since they started planning a business.

I wanted to give my friend three basic questions that he and his wife must answer before they make any further plans:

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