Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business.

The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way.

This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues,

challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of

the how of business, David and Henry. Well, welcome to the how of business with David and

Henry. How are you doing today, David?

I'm good, Henry. How are you?

I'm doing great. And I'm excited about this topic today.

I think it's relevant to, I think, most of our listeners, certainly is something we have worked on and often struggled over our careers and business careers.

And it's this topic of organization,

tools, resources that we use personally and in our business to run our business and keep

ourselves organized. I, for one, tend to be a very organized person. I try to be organized.

I use different techniques that we'll talk about here

in this podcast. But I remember back in the late 90s, was still in my software sales and marketing

career. And back then, the way I usually took notes was in the typical legal pad that I would

have in some kind of leather binder,

depending on the last conference I went to, right, where I had gotten a free leather binder.

And I would make notes there and then turn off those pieces of paper and put them in a file

related to that client or that customer or that project.

And I was sitting in a meeting once with a guy who was using a notebook, a leather bound, probably not real leather, but it seemed like it was a bound notebook.

And that's where he was making his notes.

And I thought, well, that's interesting.

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