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by Tara Joyce | Sep 15, 2010 | My Journey | What's On My Mind
[tweetmeme] I’m writing my first book. It’s about my experiences and learning letting my customers determine the price they pay for my work.
I’ve been pricing this way for over a year and a half. I’ve been thinking about writing this book for over a year and three-quarters. I’ve been writing it for over six months.
It’s painful. I’m procrastinating.
I’ve barely written anything, and what I did write, I’m not feeling good about.
Every day, I ask myself, will you write some of it today? Each day, I don’t.
I haven’t since July.
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by Tara Joyce | Sep 3, 2010 | Self/Business Growth
[tweetmeme] I’ve got a bit of a temper. You could call me fiery, if you will. Certain things just boil my blood.
I take pleasure from expressing my displeasure.
Anger. The root of all protest movements and all processes of change.
I love my anger, when it’s properly channeled. It drives me to make things different. My anger tells me that THIS is something that I am not okay with. It is a boundary-setter. It tells me that “I can see/feel/know that someone or something has wronged me.” It tells me something needs to change.
It is one of the best drivers I know. If I didn’t think it was wrong, I would never be driven to refine anything.
If I hadn’t been pissed off at the corporate world, and the way business ‘should be’, and being told I ‘should’ accept it, this whole thing never would never be.
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by Tara Joyce | Aug 25, 2010 | Innerpreneurship, Self/Business Growth
[tweetmeme] Tactic = an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end
Your business name, your tagline, your website, your brochure, your FaceBook fan page, or any other business tool – they are tactics – that you employ to reach a goal.
Tactics don’t make a business successful
No tactic, no matter how clever or cool, will keep a client coming back. The value your business creates will.
You, the person behind the business – you, the person creating and providing the product and/or service – are ultimately what will make your business grow or shrink, and make your clients true fans.
No enduring business I know of can thank their tagline, or their business name, or any of their ever-changing and evolving tactics for their sustained success. They may thank tactics for having helped garner them attention, but they see their sustained success is due to the value their business creates in the world.
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by Tara Joyce | Aug 19, 2010 | Cultural Creativity
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Artificial acceptance of people and circumstances we resent
Why do we pretend? Why do we stay in situations that hurt us?
It’s not that we’re being nice. It’s not that we care.
We tell ourselves we’re needed and necessary. We inflate our importance.
We feed our ego.
Because we ‘care’
Because I ‘cared’ I used to happily let myself be a food source for others. I saw it as the thing I was good at. My fulfillment came from letting others dine freely on my time, talent and energy. They fed on my energy and my ego fed on their attention.
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by Tara Joyce | Aug 16, 2010 | Self/Business Growth
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Can you provide it for me?
Unfortunately, I’ve agreed that in order for me to be something, I need external validation to be so.
Things aren’t real and true because I feel them. They’re true when something bigger than me validates them.
They’re true when some else agrees.
Like you.
Will ‘credentials’ make me confident being what I am?
It’s easier to feel confident about what you’re doing when you have them.
