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Published September 11, 2026 04:30AMThe best trail runs have the ability to transform us, to redefine us, even. There’s something special about navigating through golden aspens and grinding your way to a new summit where you’re greeted with 360-degree panorama views. It’s a feeling of being extremely alive paired with perspective and presence, and it never gets old.As someone who’s been running trails for over 20 years, I can tell you that any and all time spent collecting trail miles—whether it’s a quick out-and-back on a beloved route or an all-day event running in a new place—is some of the…

Key Takeaways ‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary learned an important lesson from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Jobs taught him to concentrate on the immediate, high-impact work at hand (the “signal”) rather than reacting to every incoming demand (the “noise”). O’Leary said each day should begin with the “signal,” or the three most important tasks that must get done that day. Between nonstop email chains and back-to-back meetings, it’s easy for professionals to be busy for days without making real progress. Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary says the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once gave him a simple productivity lesson: Tune…

How’s this for a happy meal? Terry Eagle took a part-time job at a McDonald’s in South London in 1976. Fifty years later, he owns six of them. Eagle started as a teenage crew member, greeting customers and running the register. Four years in, at just 19, he was promoted to manager. From there, he applied to become a franchisee and opened his first Arches in Camberwell before eventually growing his footprint to six restaurants across South London, according to People. “Starting out as a crew member, I never could have imagined the journey ahead of me,” Eagle, now 65,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A side hustle demands your time, but a managed digital asset demands your capital and then gets out of your way. A managed digital asset is not one big win — it’s the same disciplined process repeated order after order, month after month, until the compounding becomes obvious on paper. Four years ago, one of our clients in her early 30s came to us with $30,000 and a simple ask. She wanted her money working for her without turning into a second career. No inventory to manage, no customer service…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Using AI to mass-personalize your messaging is killing your credibility, not building it. Creating content that educates your ideal clients creates valuable transformation that attracts ready buyers. Shining a light on your existing clients’ success will do more for your credibility than any AI-riddled cold outreach. When was the last time you made a buying decision based on a cold email that landed in your email spam folder? Likely never. I know I have never done business with a company that sent me a cold DM on LinkedIn or sent…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Build your website to get leads and business — not for design awards: Prioritize usability over design, clear instructions over clever messaging and key information over fluffy content. Bring web visitors back with digital retargeting: By placing a small piece of tracking code on your website, you can target anonymous visitors with digital ads after they leave. Link up your website to the mailbox: That’s where direct mail retargeting comes in. Instead of serving another online ad to past website visitors, it automatically sends a pre-designed postcard to their mailbox…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways People don’t extend trust to logos anymore; they extend it to humans. Personal executive visibility now determines whether your message compounds into lasting equity or dissolves into static. True authority cannot be manufactured by a committee or scripted by a PR agency. If leadership is part of the brand’s trust infrastructure, leaders cannot always outsource the relationship with the audience. Authenticity doesn’t demand sacrificing privacy. It just requires that whatever portion of yourself you present to the world is genuine, consistent and aligned with your core principles. As institutions lose…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The “vending machine” mindset — put a dollar into marketing, and get leads out — is an easy way to waste a marketing budget. A better analogy is an investment account. Some investments produce an immediate return, while others gradually increase the likelihood that customers will remember, trust and choose you when the time is right. Understand that customers aren’t always ready to buy, find the problem you want to own, create pull instead of always pushing, and talk to customers, prospects and people who considered your product but bought…

Key Takeaways Kara Swisher spent three decades working for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She realized that she could create something herself and launched the technology news site Recode in 2014. Swisher said that she was more comfortable with uncertainty than many of the journalists around her when she chose to build her own business. After spending about 30 years covering Silicon Valley for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, Kara Swisher decided that she could build something bigger on her own.  “I thought I could do better,” Swisher told Business Insider’s Dan DeFrancesco during…

Published September 10, 2026 02:30PMAgents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly arrested five men who were camping on public lands in Washington State over Labor Day Weekend. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson confirmed the arrests in a statement to Outside. According to a report from local news station King 5 Seattle, five families spent the holiday weekend camping near Granite Falls, a town near the Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest, when they say several people approached them and identified themselves as U.S. Forest Service (USFS) rangers. In an email to Outside, a DHS spokesperson said that the…