I actually enjoy it so much that I hired another salesperson and had him join another BNI group in Bonita Springs, a market he'll be responsible for. I'm going to make it a company standard that every time I hire somebody they join a BNI group.

With all this other (proposed) development of schools and theatres, they have still kept the strip and its identity. Quite often, the Gasoline Alley themes get lost as the community develops.

He pulled me to the side and said I'm part of this group in town called BNI and it's about a bunch of business owners that get together once a week and we exchange leads.

When you have an opportunity to get together with people in several different industries it's almost like you have 30 little warriors out there marketing your business for you every week. They're real people. They're walking, talking, breathing billboards.

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.