by Phil Olsen | Apr 23, 2025 | Perspective, Uncategorized
Houses are clearly a lot bigger than ants. But if you look down on houses from a long distance, they look the size of ants. Train tracks are always perfectly parallel, but if you look at a long line of tracks, it looks like the tracks touch way in the distance. What...
by Phil Olsen | Apr 14, 2025 | Change, Execution, Purpose, Uncategorized
Socially Acceptable Cynicism: Building a quality business team requires a sufficient degree of mutual trust. Yet, if you’ve been in business long enough, you’ve learned to be at least marginally skeptical. We seldom get the complete picture the first time we interact...
by Phil Olsen | Jul 8, 2024 | Execution, Uncategorized
When we get sick of doing the hard thing of obeying what we already know, we go looking for new answers. Simple: With all of the amazing acrobatics basketball great Michael Jordan was able to do, a key thing that made him great was simply being able to make a...
by Phil Olsen | Jul 1, 2024 | Motivation, Purpose, Uncategorized
Beyond my mother, I have three key girls in my life – my two daughters and my wife. All three of them love animals. I don’t mind animals… They love them. I can like your animal… I’m not necessarily wanting one of my own. For my three girls, life is not complete unless...
by Phil Olsen | Jun 22, 2024 | Change, Perspective, Uncategorized
It’s Not What You Think In all likelihood, the greatest thing you can do to develop your business does not involve learning something new. That’s problematic for people in my business because we are all about helping people discover something new they have not...
by Phil Olsen | Jun 17, 2024 | Motivation, Uncategorized
Contentment, ambition, status quo, drive, driven, satisfaction, jealousy, achievement, desire, coveting, acceptance, rejection, dream, goal. Each of these words relates to motivation and to varying degrees provokes an internal reaction. Are they good things? Are they...
