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How I Lost $50,900 (and my pride), But Kept My Wife

Allow me to tell two stories of my own stupidity and foolishness. Both cost me a lot of money, but they may have cost me more in embarrassment and vulnerability. I certainly lost some pride over the deals. Thankfully, my wife stood by me – all without scolding me about how stupid or crazy I was.

As my kids were growing up I constantly preached to them about making mistakes. I knew they’d make mistakes, all kids do. My sermon to them was always the same, “Don’t make a mistake from which you can never recover.”

While these two stories had a high cost, thankfully…they were mistakes from which I could and did recover. I hope you can learn to be smarter by avoiding the mistakes I made.

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The Enormous Power of Expectation

Leadership, Personal Development, Video / By Randy Cantrell

Tom Rath‘s book, Vital Friends, was published in 2006. It was a profound book for me. I have re-read it a number of times because it’s about the importance of relationships and friendships.

I think about it more and more as I grow older. I consider the impact it has on our children. As parents. And teachers. It’s rather important, if not urgent.

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The Word: Control

Communication, Video / By Randy Cantrell

Yes, I said, “delusioned.” LOL The minute I said it I knew it wasn’t quite right. Deluded is right. But did I acknowledge it? No. Go with it. It’s the control I managed to exercise during the recording. See, everything has a purpose.

Thanks for watching.

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Trust People, But Always Cut The Deck

Entrepreneurship, Video / By Randy Cantrell

Recent discussions about the FTC crackdown on testimonials for Internet marketers have brought to light the fine arts of deception, lying and fraud. Enron and Bernie Madoff preceded this news – so it’s not quite the newsflash it might otherwise be. Cheating is commonplace.

Pick any area of human endeavor and you’ll find deception and cheating. Education, business, religion, and all others. Marketing and sales are especially susceptible to it because people are working to exchange something for money.

The competitive edge – YOUR competitive edge – can be honor, integrity and complete honesty, 100% of the time.

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