I’ve been rethinking how I define a good day. Most goals get written as outcomes. Another $150,000 in revenue. Ten projects closed. Twenty pounds gone. An audience built. A net worth number reached. There’s nothing wrong with wanting any of that — I need a destination before I can build a route to it. But
I founded a holding company twenty-six years ago, when I was still a senior in high school. Over time I built multiple businesses under it. Industries changed. Companies came and went. My experience evolved. The holding company remained. Somewhere along the way it stopped being a formality and became an asset in its own right
Today I turned 44. Almost exactly one year ago, my family and I moved to Georgia. That coincidence has had me thinking more than usual about where I am, how I got here, and what I want the next part of my life to look like. For a long time, I thought of myself as
Yesterday I met a gentleman at Starbucks who had originally reached out to me through TikTok. We had never done business together. There was no contract to discuss, no transaction that needed closing. We spent about an hour talking about our businesses, the projects we were working on, the problems we were trying to solve,
CLB Builds was recently granted BBB Accreditation with an A+ rating. I’m proud of that. But what matters to me more than being able to put the BBB seal on our website is what we agreed to when we earned it. BBB Accreditation requires businesses to continually meet its Standards for Trust, which include honoring
I now realize that if something is genuinely important to me, it needs a place on my calendar. Otherwise I’m mostly hoping it happens. That sounds obvious, but I haven’t always operated that way. It is easy to wake up in the morning, look at whatever feels most urgent, and start responding. An email comes
People talk about business decisions as if they happen inside a conference room. Which market should I enter? Which partner should I choose? How much should I invest? When should I hire? When should I sell? Which opportunities deserve my attention, and which should I walk away from? Those decisions matter. But the more life
I met with a customer today about a consumer-facing product line I’m testing, and it reminded me that pricing something right is only half the job. Sometimes a customer is completely comfortable with the price. What they’re not comfortable with yet is the risk. The people I sat down with today are exactly who I
Over the last few weeks, I’ve stumbled onto a product line I wasn’t originally planning to build around: pergolas. What caught my attention wasn’t the product itself. It was the economics. I can purchase a finished system from an established manufacturer, sell it with a meaningful margin, and deliver something that is relatively straightforward to
This morning I did something incredibly boring. I connected my personal Amazon Prime membership to a new Amazon Business account. That’s it. Not exactly the kind of announcement that gets people excited about entrepreneurship. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized this small decision represents something much bigger I’m trying to
