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Patti Celori, executive director of the New England Cognitive Center said,  "Most people's idea of fitness stops at the neck, but the brain is the CPU of our body, and most people don't do much to keep it as fit as possible."

The following principle was developed for the physical fitness arena but I find that if we apply its teachings to our entrepreneurial pursuits good things can happen.  Because just like hitting a plateau in body fitness training, we also hit plateaus with our mental training, requiring a bump or a nudge to get us training harder and perhaps in a more specific manner, to get to the next level.

I watch folks go nuts for Su Doku, I sit next to people on airplanes passing the time with crossword puzzles and the such. These are not something I’ve ever gotten addicted to. Addiction may be a strong word here, but whatever it is I’ve not been bitten by that bug.

I recently had an amazing opportunity; I experienced an authentic sweat lodge in the far reaches of Northern B.C. Canada. I went to the middle of nowhere to talk about the Economic Development possibilities for a First Nation (Aboriginal) community an hour and a half drive north of Terrace, B.C. Canada. AND Terrace is a – sometimes very bumpy – two hour flight north of Vancouver.

Planned obsolescence or a period of rough use, whatever it was, it led me into a cell phone store south of Barrington (outside of Chicago) Illinois to replace a broken phone after a long day of travel.

I kid you not, the first call that rang my new phone, five minutes after it fired up for the first time, was from a man in Connecticut inquiring about The Working Inventor’s Weekend in Las Vegas. He talked about this idea he had to save millions of gallons of water a year, at the household level, and that he was planning on handing this cash cow over to an “invention submission company”. This was because he didn’t know anyone he needed to know to bring his product to the marketplace. I told him they probably didn’t either.

Traveling and speaking internationally about “The Working Inventor” in all of us, I run into all sorts of folks. Mostly there is a fascination around the mindset one must have and the lifestyle one can live, securing their future by way of intellectual property. I often say… “I can stay in 5 Star hotels if I choose, but sometimes I choose to stay in a 5 Billion Star hotel out under the stars, camping…”