3 Business Lessons I Learned While Getting my Haircut

I got my hair cut this afternoon. A lot of people that know me, think I am very particular of my hair. I guess because I act and model, and have to have my hair in a contemporary, professional and commercial style; people think I spend quite a bit of money on a hairstylist. In fact, on a photo set, I often have compliments on my hair from the stylists. But I have a secret. I go to any hair cutting place with a coupon. I hate spending much more than $10 on a haircut. And I don't think I've had any more than 1 or 2 bad haircuts along the way. Knock on wood. Today as I waited in the front area of...
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7 Lessons I’ve Learned About Getting Robbed

This week I had an out-of-town client visiting from Maine. We see them once a year, so my wife and I treated them to lunch. Near the end of a great meal of catching up, we were interrupted by a phone call. One you never want to hear. It was the office saying that the Police needed to talk with us. No other information. My heart leaped as we hastily said goodbye to our visitors. A quick call to the police left us breathless. They had discovered our passports, immigration papers, business contracts and some unused visas with our names on them. Next to our demolished safe, in the middle of a street in the north end of town. We raced to our...
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