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You’re Going to Make the Difference
You're not going to make the difference for me: I am. I'm not going to make the difference for you: you are. You and...
The Value of Lightness
Are there things in your life that feel heavy and "work"-like? For me, dinner has long felt like a task that really...
On the Benefits of a Business Education
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In 1986, when Russell Ackoff, a pioneer of management education, retired as Professor at the Wharton Business School, he was asked what were the benefits of a business education. With savage irony he replied that there were three.
- To equip students with a vocabulary that enabled them to talk with authority about subjects they did not understand.
There’s Nothing Wrong With You
We all do it. It’s almost ingrained in us. We focus on the bad things people have said about us. The bad things we have thought about our self. In those words we see areas for improvement. Areas we can work on to be a better and happier person. We have been taught that the key to achieving our goals is improving on our weaknesses.
Shoot First, Think Later
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How often is a movie filmed without first writing a script? How often is a book jacket designed without first writing the content?
A website is no different. It tells a story. One of the most common mistakes I find business owner’s make in their website development is creating the design before writing the content.
Adapt to Grow
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I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with a fair number of innerpreneurs since launching this blog and I’ve found a common lesson that we are each learning about business and about life. Adaptability is the key to growth.
We All Know Change is Inevitable
Things will change. Our plans will shift. What was a the goal yesterday will not be the goal today.
Letting Go Of Keeping Up
I don’t want to feel like I am always racing to keep up. But sometimes I do.
The emails that my heart wants to write, the article ideas lost in my head or in a book.
I know the answer is that it will all get done. That I need to tackle each as it comes and not fret about all that isn’t done.
But I wonder if it isn’t an innerpreneur’s natural inclination to see what isn’t created, rather than what is?
Growth is slow
I’ve spent the last week engrossed in my pricing and service platform. I’m trying to figure out how to authentically describe what I do. I’ve added my work-in-progress expertise to the blog. Hopefully it connects.
Promotion That Feels Good
Alter Your Perspective
I’ve struggled for a week to summarize my trip to Nicaragua (pictures here), to put words to the multitude of feelings, experiences and realizations that I made while I was there. But I’ve given up. I can’t do it in one article. My hope is that all that I have experienced will be reflected in my writing. In this past week I have come to realize why travel is such a strong passion for me. The exhilaration of a change in perspective.
To me, the greatest gift that travel affords is the way it alters your perception. For it is hard to not be sucked in. It’s hard to not lose perspective. When all you know is what you know, it is hard to remember that there is a whole world outside of it.
Bright Writing: Unleashing Your Inner Goodnik
Written by Benjamin Seaman
Do you struggle with what to write?
Why not start, like I’m doing, with an image:
Consider the Orthodox Jew. Every day on the subway ride to my office I sit among them, the young men and women of Yeshiva University in 
Washington Heights, in their conservative Jewish attire. The women wear these buxom wigs and horsy skirts. The men cut handsome frames in their formal slacks, spotless white shirts, close-cropped hair and yamulkas. The women have an easy gossip about them, while the men run their fingers back and forth across the pages of their Torahs. Or they chime in here and there with the women.
