Dave Clare – Don’t Buy Stuff to Band-aid Your Unhappiness

<p><strong>BIO:</strong> For over two decades, Dave Clare has been a practitioner who has led multiple businesses in and through commercially and organizationally challenging times.</p><p><strong>STORY:</strong> Dave was trying to fill up his unhappy life and thought investing in a community leadership center was the answer. The center only hemorrhaged money and never brought in any revenue.</p><p><strong>LEARNING:</strong> Don’t buy stuff just because you’re trying to make yourself feel happy. Keep the absolute minimum on costs, and drive revenue. Never compare your insides to other people’s outsides.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“If I’m happy on the inside, I don’t have to try and force happiness on the outside. And I don’t have to make poor decisions on the outside.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">Dave Clare</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p>Purpose, Leadership, and Simplicity are the keys to success in shaping your business evolution.</p><p>For over two decades, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/prophetforpurpose/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dave Clare</strong></a> has been a practitioner who has led multiple businesses in and through commercially and organizationally challenging times.</p><p>Bringing care, compassion, and urgency to his process, Dave’s legacy in the making is one of achievement, fulfillment, and joy in the workspace. Dave’s process works because they matter to everyone - clients, teams, leaders, everybody!</p><h2>Worst investment ever</h2><p>In 2000, Dave was living in Canada and was a licensee of the world’s largest personal and organizational development company. He had just come off a very successful year and thought it would be great to embed himself in the community.</p><p>Dave decided to leverage the equity in his house and buy a building where he’d set up a Center for Leadership Excellence in the community. He’d worked really hard to position himself in the business community. He found t