I’ll openly admit that the past several months I’ve been bad at writing a blog every week. Actually, that’s not an accurate description…how about “absolutely awful”? Over the summer I went a few months without writing here once, yet there have been many specific topics on my mind to write about.

The past couple weeks have been interesting to say the least as I’ve realized just how many projects, tasks and goals sit on my to-do list. While my summer was filled with great personal experiences and progress in business, the next thing I knew September had already arrived. What happened to July and August?

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Nearly every week on any major news/media broadcast or publication you can soak up a report talking about some element of the weak economy. This may be about job cuts at a large high-tech corporation, suffering public school funding, rising healthcare costs, wasteful Government spending, or dozens of other applicable situations. The media does a great job of telling you the sky is falling and unfortunately far too many people get sucked into believing most, if not all, of it.

While this is not meant to bring forth attention to the negative side of news (notice how the majority of it IS negative), I want to open your eyes to a different, abnormal way to listen. It may be unconventional but have you realized that much of the recent success behind so many start-ups is because they have NOT been conventional? They’ve thought out of the box, different than their competitors.

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