Borrow My Mistakes
The lessons experience teaches you before success ever will — told in full at the top of this page.
Told above ↑THE PHILOSOPHY SECTION
Why We're Different
It isn't the building. It isn't the services. It isn't the technology. It's how we think.
01 — BORROW MY MISTAKES
Borrow My Mistakes
People ask me all the time how we’ve built what we’ve built.
The truth is, I’ve made more mistakes than I can count. Some expensive. Some embarrassing. Some that nearly ended everything.
I’ve also had incredible mentors — people like John Maxwell and Jim Rohn, who challenged the way I thought and helped shape the way I lead. And despite learning from them, I still made my own mistakes.
Eventually I realized something. Every mistake leaves behind a lesson. Every lesson becomes a system. Every system becomes something that can help someone else.
That’s what this library is.
I’m not asking you to borrow my success. I’m asking you to borrow my mistakes.
God knows I’ve made enough of them. You’ll make your own — but maybe these can save you from making some of mine.
Everything we built — from BusinessGPS to Focus10, from the South County Chamber to ReVitalize — started with one simple question:
Why did this work? Or why didn’t it?
Those answers became philosophies. Those philosophies became systems. Those systems became the NexCore ecosystem.
THE LIBRARY
Hard-earned operating principles.
Focus10
Everything begins with you. Ten focus areas, and a rhythm of checkpoints to assess, evolve, and grow — transforming your life and your business together. Watch the calendar for the Focus10 workshop, coming winter 2026.
Coming SoonBusinessGPS
Business shouldn’t be a lonely journey. How accountability, community, and momentum work together.
Read this principle →Mastering the Spin
Life rarely goes according to plan. Success belongs to the people who know how to respond when everything changes. Happiness is awarded to those who can change the way they see it before it has to change.
Coming SoonThe Art of the Pivot
Sometimes persistence means changing direction — not giving up. But how? That’s the art. Workshop coming winter 2026.
Coming SoonThe Ecosystem Mindset
Businesses don’t grow alone. Communities don’t either. Some philosophies can’t be taught. They must be experienced firsthand. That’s the NexCore ecosystem.
Join us — take a tour →BUSINESSGPS WEEKLY
Navigate growth, build relationships, create opportunity.
Growing a business isn’t about collecting business cards. It’s about building meaningful relationships that lead to real opportunities.
BusinessGPS is a weekly gathering of business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals, and community leaders who are committed to growing together through authentic connections, practical insights, and intentional collaboration — not forced referrals.
Begins September 10th, 2026.
This isn’t a collection of theories.
It’s a collection of lessons.
There are a million different lessons we learn over time. These philosophies aren’t just what we practice — they’re what we live every single day. Some of them are uniquely ours. Some are borrowed from the very best. And some are a combination of the two, refined and adapted with our members, their families, and their businesses in mind.
These will evolve. They will grow. We’ll keep adding to them. And if one lesson helps you avoid one mistake, then every one of those mistakes was worth making.