On September 7, 2017 Equifax Inc. announced a cybersecurity incident potentially impacting approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. Criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files. Based on the company’s investigation, the unauthorized access occurred from mid-May through July 2017. Click here to read more on the incident and to keep yourself up to date. The FTC also recommends taking these steps:• Check your credit reports from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, the FTC advises on its website. You can do this for free by visiting annualcreditreport.com. Look for accounts or activity that you don’t recognize. It could indicate identity theft.• Consider placing a fraud alert on your files (see section above). A fraud alert warns creditors that you may be a victim of identity

Rohn: You Don’t Have to Love What You Do… …but you have to love the opportunity. Jim Rohn September 20, 2015 You have to love what you do, that’s what people say. But that’s not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity—the opportunity to build life, future, health, success, and fortune. Knocking on someone’s door may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind it. A guy says, “I’m digging ditches. Should I love digging ditches?” The answer? No, you don’t have to love digging ditches, but if it is your first entry onto the ladder of success, you should be thinking, I’m glad somebody gave me the opportunity to dig ditches, and

This past week I was able to spend a week in gorgeous Destin Florida. We attended a business workshop and enjoyed every minute. While we were busy learning about how to follow our dreams and create a powerful vision for our future, there were many takeaways that were worthy of sharing! TAKE TIME TO REFUEL: As business owners, we are usually going 100 miles per hour most days per week, month and throughout the year. I’ve spoken to many business owners who do not remember their last vacation and who feel as if they have burned their candle at both ends. Taking some time, every 90 days, to disconnect from the business and spend some time reflecting and refueling can have such positive impacts on and in your

Life is filled with opportunities to LIVE and LEARN! This past weekend, I was out on the back patio doing a little pressure washing. When I was done, I realized that I had done more than blow a little dirt off the back patio, I rediscovered the POWER of being UNDER PRESSURE! PURPOSE- There are so many things to be done in our lives and just like my pressure washing excursion, we simply have to determine what our purpose is. Without a game plan, we can end up at the end of the week, month or year having accomplished very little. When we are not focused, we tend to get sidetracked and much less effective. The patio was my purpose but it was VERY tempting to consider tackling

It was not so many years ago that TEXTING was- well a little weird! Today, it feels like a major way to communicate. Even the credit card processing industry has been deeply impacted by texting. You can DONATE via text, MAKE a PAYMENT via text, get CONFIRMATION of payment via text and keep track of your spending via MESSAGE ALERTS using text messaging. While many of us know some COMMON texting acronyms (LOL, ROTFL) I thought we would have some fun today looking at some lesser known symbols and acronyms that might relate to our businesses! Productivity is very important in your business so if you happen to see o-&-< on your team member’s cell phone- BEWARE! It means Doing Nothing! Yes- there are ways to communicate that