“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees just the red stoplight… The truly wise individual is color- blind.” Albert Schweitzer

I learned a really difficult life lesson this month. I, the eternal optimist and consummate positive thinker were blinded by my medicine. It’s a powerful personal story and yes it dawned on me in the middle of recounting it to my entrepreneur group the reason is lesson is amazingly applicable to business.

Here goes. My husband and I just built a home. At the final accounting ending up in our builder, it stumbled on the light we were a significant amount over budget. More than is commonly expected. While I won’t enter into detail about how we stumbled on learn this so late in the game (that is a separate issue that people also was required to cope with) imagine the impact … Read the rest >>>