In whatever shape it may take, whenever I hear a story, I find myself wondering how it is serving the person who is...
Business from the inside out
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The Motion of Emotion
My emotions are not me. They are my energy, in motion. I am not responsible for my emotions—I am responsible for what...
Blinded By The Light
There's a problem with abundance. In living with it—and amongst it—there's a risk I will stop seeing it as a thing of...
defining my market niche
I’m excited to announce that I’ve created another workbook for the Nutshell Series, defining my market niche. This workbook takes you on a fun adventure in looking at your market and specifically identifying who your ideal client is in it, and what they need to hear from you.
The workbook is 19 pages and includes 9 probing questions to expanding your thinking.
made with love for you,
Other workbooks currently in the Nutshell Series are exploring brand me and developing my communication strategy. Each book focuses on a specific aspect of designing your marketing communications and provides guidance on discovering the strategies that are uniquely right for you and your business.
Improving Your Game
Like any game, if you don’t actively participate in it, you will not be a player.
If you can see money as a game, you can understand the importance of playing with money; of learning to flow with debit and credit.
Like in any game, it’s important to your success as a player to maintain a positive attitude, regardless of where you are in your flow. Whether in debit or credit, your job as a player is to ensure you are always doing your best while in the game.
developing My communication strategy
I’m on a roll! After having so much fun creating exploring brand Me for you, I’ve felt inspired to create a series of Communication Design workbooks. I call it the nutshell series. All of the exercises will focus on supporting your identification and expression of various aspects of your Communication Design.
I see the series this far as:
- exploring brand Me – focusing on discovering how you express your identity
- developing My communication strategy – focusing on discovering your goals and approaches in any communication project
- building My online presence – focusing on discovering how you want to be visible on the web to reach your goals
- enhancing My online presence – focusing on discovering where you can be more visible on the web to reach your goals
I’m really having fun creating these for you. I sincerely believe they will help you. I hope you love them as much as I do. My goal with them is to support you in putting ‘your things’ in a nutshell so you can be clear and organized to do your ‘thang. I’ll be back soon with an update on #3 in the series. But for now, I introduce the #2 in the series, developing My communication strategy!
made with love for you,
The Perfection of Imperfection
What if my imperfections were my road map for growth and becoming more perfectly, joyfully me?
What if embracing and supporting my imperfections could lead me to spaces I’ve never been before?
I am not perfect. And I desire to feel totally happy letting the external world know this truth. No matter the situation.
Inside, I am aware that I am imperfect, but I hold a hesitancy to accept this truth. I waste my valuable energy trying to resist this truth internally, and trying to portray otherwise to the external world.
I Don’t Feel Like Playing Anymore
There are a lot of rules to my game. Too many to follow it seems. There are the rules I’ve learned from others. And then there are the ones I’ve wrote myself.
It can be easier to see the rules and expectations others have imparting on me, but the ones I impart of myself are the most limiting.
Those rules, those self-imposed ‘shoulds’, are what keep me in victim mode, limited and continuing to play my games, even when I don’t want to, nor acknowledge I am.
Don’t Take My Advice
In business and in life. I can’t possibly know what is best for you more than you do.
You are your own best adviser.
You have all the answers you’ll ever need inside of you. There is no one you will ever meet that you will learn more from than your Self. You may need support in asking the questions that will move you in the direction of your answers, but ultimately, what is right for you is a question only you have the answer to.
Do you trust that the guide inside you knows what’s best?
All the things you don’t know.
I have moments where the idea that I might actually know what’s best seems completely idiotic. After all, what do I know? It definitely seems far more sane to think that someone smarter than me could know better what to do next.
The Power of Our Wildest Dreams
Perhaps you’re like me and you find yourself yearning for the completion of your dreams.
I dream of the day when my current “struggles” are behind me. I dream of the day when my first book is written and published, and my second is hot in pursuit. I dream of visiting space.
The word ‘dream’ can have a pie-in-the-sky quality to it that makes me uncomfortable though. It’s not that I think dreams are unrealistic to have. I truly believe that our dreams can come true. But we have to be realistic about achieving them.
My dreams can only come true when I am true to them.
Only thinking about my dreams and not doing, I am simply dreaming. I am not coupling the dream with a firm intention to manifest it.
Idea Hoarding
I used to be afraid of people stealing my ideas. I saw my ideas, the thoughts in my head, as something physical that someone could take from me.
I was terrified to share them. I was certain that if they weren’t stolen, then they would surely be scorned.
Clearly, it seemed, my ideas were not safe in the external world.
Everything is essentially an idea
Without knowing it, I’ve been sharing my ideas all along. In giving of my wealth, in doing what brings me joy, I had been extending my ideas.
Sharing my thoughts hasn’t diminished or killed them as I thought it would. Rather, it has allowed me to meet people who believed in my ideas, and the stronger they have grown.
Is It Business or Personal?
What’s the difference?
How is it not personal? You spend most of your energy and time doing it but yet it’s not suppose to be infused with who you are as a person?
Why can’t you get personal with your work?