Extend Your Reach! A Newsletter for Acceleration, Issue No. 14

Welcome to Extend Your Reach! A newsletter designed to bring you the best tips, tricks, and resources to help you grow and succeed in both your personal and professional life. In this newsletter, we will be highlighting five different areas of focus to help you extend your reach and accelerate your growth.?

A Book You Should Read - A funny and almost cool story about when I got lost and almost had to stay the night in the San Juan mountains. It was just me and my dog and it lead me to reading a book after the fact called Ghost Grizzlies by David Petersen. This book dives into if, can, and where a surviving population of grizzlies would be in Colorado. The last time there were no grizzlies in Colorado a bow hunter stumbled upon one, was mauled, but happened to kill it by stabbing it in the neck with a arrow. Biologists say the San Juans and even the Tierra Amarilla area in New Mexico are prime grizzly habitat and most likely to have them. Read it and let me know what you think.

A Small Business You Should Support - Blissful Sky Studio. Through thoughtfully designed visual storytelling that utilizes photography and video, their objective is to create marketing content that establishes brand recognition paired with a personable business profile. They specialize in promotional film, photography and social media film. They are a certified Minority and Women Owned Enterprise that is local to Dallas/Fort Worth, but they are open to travel so don’t let geography steer you away. You absolutely want to work with Dominique if you can. She has won 15?Telly Awards and serves on the Silver?Telly Council.

A Person You Should Follow on LinkedIn - You have to follow Ian Olson. He is the champ of commending others and making sound networking introductions. He pumps out quality posts and never seems to place himself before the service of others. If you view his page then you get a sense of what he’s about right off the rip. He is a husband and a father first, then everything else. He makes huge efforts to make sure he is “giving to others & the community while trying to make a positive, lasting impact!” Check him out.?

A Podcast You Should Listen To - Episode 483 with Jim Collins on the Tim Ferriss Show. Jim Collins is a student and teacher of what makes great companies tick. He is arguably my all-time favorite business analyst and author. Having invested more than a quarter-century in rigorous research, he has authored or co-authored six books that have sold in total more than 10 million copies worldwide. They include?Good to Great, the #1 bestseller that examines why some companies make the leap to superior results, and its companion work?Good to Great and the Social Sectors; the enduring classic?Built to Last, which explores how some leaders build companies that remain visionary for generations;?How the Mighty Fall, which delves into how once-great companies can self-destruct; and?Great by Choice, which is about thriving in chaos—why some do and others don’t.

A Verse From the Bible -??Finally, let’s get to the best part of this newsletter and the Lord’s word.

Psalms 27:3 NKJV (I prefer the King James Version for this one)

“Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident.”

Faith, as expressed in the Bible, is trust in the face of uncertainty. David's faith in the Lord as his light, salvation, and stronghold would not lag even if an army laid siege around him. His confidence remained firm even if an enemy should declare war against him.?

All in all, I hope by looking into one or all of these five areas of your life, you can extend your reach and accelerate your personal and professional growth. I hope this newsletter has been helpful and I look forward to sharing more with you next week!