We are now 7 weeks into the New Year – 2010; actually, 13% of the year has already passed us by. So let me ask you a question, are you on course for achieving what you intend to this year? In other words, have you been paying attention to your goals? It’s probably a good [...]

In just a few short weeks (there are only a few weeks left in 2009), most of us will be consumed by the holiday madness. We’ll be so busy trying to wrap up details, not to mention wrap up gifts, that too many will simply cancel the last couple weeks of the year and hope [...]

As we all know, successful businesses put themselves through an annual exercise of setting goals and plans for the year ahead. Yet few individuals do this for themselves. Fewer then one percent of adults have clearly stated goals – and those who do earn as much as ten times more money than those who don’t! [...]

Do you want to know a secret? It’s easy to make piles of money in commercial real estate – you don’t even have to be that smart! You just have to know what to do and then do it. So, as I sit on a plane flying to Dallas to take my daughter to college [...]

This past winter I conducted a small, informal focus group by calling several top-producing commercial real estate professionals in the Chicago area and asking: “What keeps you awake at night?” There was one unanimous response: “Staying on Top!”