Written by Sound Wisdom Publishers | May 21, 2010

“My supervisor is the queen of micro-managing!” “I’m doing the work of three people and only getting paid for one.” “Why won’t he listen to my suggestions? “My boss is so cranky!” “If they would just ask me how to improve sales, I could tell them.” “Man, I can’t wait ’til Friday at five!”

If you have said or thought of any—or all—of these comments, you may be a closet entrepreneur! If you are a person who likes to organize, operate, and take risks, you are an entrepreneur. If the “take risks” part of the definition scares you or has kept you from fulfilling your destiny as a business owner—why?

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Written by Sound Wisdom Publishers | May 20, 2010

In elementary school you were told how smart you were, in high school you were too cool to be smart, and in college you realized that there would always be someone smarter than you.

Now…now you know that being smart isn’t enough. You need to be wise.

“It is no longer enough to be smart—all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.” —Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman

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