When you are green, you are growing. Once you start to turn red, you are expiring. Don't you want to always stay green then?

As an entrepreneur, one thing that you should realize is that the world never stays the same. You are, for the most part, always going to find some changes happening. As a business owner, if you cannot adjust your business to those changes, you may find yourself facing more problems than benefits.

Many companies have had to go out of business simply because their product no longer works with what the consumer needs. It does not matter what type of business you have either. The bottom line is that if you are not green and growing, you are not going to make it in business for long.

Is your business green and growing?

A blonde walks into a department store and buys a jigsaw puzzle, gets it home and starts putting it together.

Her neighbor walks by and sees how happy she is and asks.

Neighbor: You look really happy about something, what happened?

Blonde: I finally finished my jigsaw puzzle.

Neighbor: That's great, how long did it take you?

Blonde: 3 months

Neighbor: It took you 3 MONTHS to do that puzzle?

Blonde: That's not bad the box says 2-4 years.

One of the first things you need to do is set a budget for your spending. It is important to figure out where your money is going. If you have any questions, you should track your spending for several weeks. Write down each and every cent that leaves your hands, no matter how big or small the amount. Once you have an idea of what you spend and where, start to create your budget. It is important that your budget is realistic, though. If you know you normally spend about $200 on gas a month, do not estimate low and say you will only spend $100. If you do things like this it will throw your budget all out of whack. It is also important that you follow the budget or it will be nothing more than numbers on a piece of paper.

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Want to be the person who always has something interesting to say? Train yourself to look at things from other perpectives. What would the Buddha say about this? How would a Martian view it? What's the opposite perspective? The point isn't to ask others silly questions, but to ask yourself, to see what interesting ideas result. Do this until it is a habit, and you'll always have something interesting to add to a conversation.

Want systematic creativity in poetry? Put a word on each of 40 cards; 10 nouns, 10 verbs, 10 adjectives, and 10 random words. Shuffle, deal out four cards, and write a 4-line poem using one of the words in each line. My wife has had poems published that were created with this technique. Your mind will find a poetic use for any word if you use this method often.

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During the course of a year about 11 milion skiers and 4 million snowboarders in the U.S. alone are on the slopes at least once. The average number of visits to the slopes is around 60 million. For every 1000 skier visits, there are around 2.5 serious medical injuries. This comes out to one injury every 430 days of the sking and snowboarding season.

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Your Mediocre Mind

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