It’s very simple common sense that two things our country needs right now are jobs and domestic energy sources. Conveniently, there’s an easy way to help improve our situation in both regards, just by following through on plans first made 25 years ago.

Our lives are all made up of countless facets that combine in unique ways to make us, us. Society is no different. The economy isn’t a single machine; it’s the sum of millions of people making billions of decisions every day. Whenever someone presents a single-step solution, we should be very skeptical, because there is no silver bullet that will fix any problem.

Technological breakthroughs have a way of completely upending the way we live—and that includes the business world, too. The most successful businesses of the next century—and the fastest growing sectors—won’t be the same as the ones from the past century. Instead, the most successful entrepreneurs will be those who identify changes and come up with great new ideas that take advantage of those shifts.

As we head into Super Bowl week, football is on everyone’s minds. Hundreds of millions of people will be watching the game—whether for the football or just for the commercials! But just because it’s a football game doesn’t mean that there’s nothing for a small business person to learn.