THINK Creative Intelligence / Think Webstore : Ridgeland, Mississippi

08/27/2026

Being really, really good at something is easy.

Being profitable is hard.

That is the tough lesson that almost every entrepreneur learns the hard way. Think about the w**d-out courses in college. Microbiology is made extra tough to w**d out the medical students. Calculus and chemistry for engineering and sciences.

Being good is a skill. Being profitable is a business. And, the business of business is much harder and mostly unrelated to the skill.

08/26/2026

We're not interested in jumping into the next hyper-class on agentic automated multimillion dollar email systems that funnel their way through your day and reach all the ICPs that have been retargeted and automatically captured by the lead magnets in front of your remote consent forms while you sleep and make you productive with entire offices run from your dedicated coworking computer that is sorting your important email, booking your calendar invites, and researching and writing your authentic sounding posts delivered through warmed up email accounts using your business coaches best practices that have already gen’d multiple millions of dollars in their own business for others while tweaking your LinkedIn profile to make you famous for TikToking on this platform while we watch a day in your life becoming a well-dressed, morning work-outing, green mud drinking, average at best thought leader who is brave enough to be vulnerable to grow likes by yellow people with no arms, only hands with big thumbs.

We just like hanging with my circles for a few, trading some wise-cracked jokes about life and business, and carrying on with a little levity to mix in with some cool wake-up thoughts.

08/25/2026

Don't bet on unremarkable.

It is standard. It is easy. It feels safe. Everyone else is doing it. You won’t get in trouble.

But you won’t win.

You only win when you are in front. Tip of the spear. Not with the bunch of horses in the middle or the back.

If you listen to the masses you will end up jogging alongside them.

Bet on something that has a chance and pass on the uphill.

08/24/2026

Every voice should be heard. Every person with an opinion matters. Organizational consequences get softened. No one gets fired.

Here is the truth.

If there are no losers there are no winners.

And opinions? One person thinks a dragster is too loud. Another, bathes in the lower frequency feel of burning fuel sung by metal pipes protruding like demon horns. Make it louder.

Respect is recognizing that someone is more qualified than you. Respect for creative has been watered down and diluted by delusional self worth and AI. People thinking that because they think it, so should everyone else. People that think AI has original thoughts and personal taste.

Creatives are the procurer of ideas, the judges of original thinking, and the gurus of appeal.

The world may come back around.

08/21/2026

You have to learn to truly follow before you can learn to lead.

Otherwise you are leading blind.

Empathy is the key to knowing how to inspire and how to constructively push people to learn and perform. Which, you will need to do when it is your turn to fly the tip of the V.

08/20/2026

Help people who need you to help and WANT you to help.

There are some horses that will just not learn new tricks and some dogs that will not drink the water no matter how well you lead them to it.

While you should always try to do the right thing it just does not work with the wrong people.

And, with the right people, magic.

Choose magic.

08/19/2026

WHAT IS YOUR ONE THING?

Be aware of the things you avoid because they may be the exact things you need to run to.

What is your most important thing you need to do? The biggest thing on your to do list? Is it written in invisible ink? Covered up with the guilt of not doing it? The fear of failure? The fear of success?

Sometimes what the bully needs is a punch in the nose! A dad telling you to take your medicine and stand up to the thing you dodge. A situation that forces your hand. Puts you in the corner. And forces your claws to come out.

Look at your to do list. Your life list.

What are you avoiding that is hard, or uncomfortable, or takes you out of your safe place? What is one big bad thing that you can tackle and put a hurt on with the conviction of ship burning?

Over time, the wait of things that should be far outweighs the things themselves.

Take off the rags of embarrassment, ego, protection, perfection, guilt, and shame and toss them aside.

Take the plunge.

When you get up and take a breath after, you might just feel like a new person. The cold drink after a month of desert walking. The moment you finally cleaned your teenage room. Tossed the rodent frenzying candy wrappers. Found your floor again. And in doing so, found a new level of self respect.

Everyone has a thing. We always have a thing.

What is your one thing?

08/18/2026

Lead yourself. The leaders will follow.

08/17/2026

Leadership articulated.

Leaders creating leaders. This seems on theme today.

One of my daughter's asked me a question I probably would have answered very differently years ago. “Would it bother you if someone left your company to go out on their own?” My answer was simple: Not anymore. In fact, the more leaders I help develop, the better I’m doing my job. But I didn’...

08/14/2026

We are all geared for lazy. Easy. Least effort. Least resistance.

Except for the few that rewire their brains to understand difficulty and hard as a path to learning and growth.

Then we figure out that facing problems head on with whatever they bring is actually the easiest right path.

Like bison charging into and through the storm.

We overcome the obstacles that challenge us.

Your buyer’s brain is lazy. That’s why your positioning can’t be. Have you lost work to someone you’re objectively better than? It stings. Maybe you found out later. Maybe you just suspected. The thinking was shallower, the track record thinner. But they got the call because they were top-of...