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Cultural Creativity Articles
How We Got Here: Becoming a Cultural Creative
The four steps every Cultural Creative takes to find their own truth.
Marketing to Innerpreneurs & Cultural Creatives
Discover the keys to practicing mindful marketing and connecting with your fellow Cultural Creatives.
How Culture and Consciousness Intertwine
When it comes to consciousness, there are really two forms that exist, absolute consciousness and relative...
How Do You Define the Achievement of Success?
A few months back I was helping to design the header graphic for a new blog that was being launched. The blog's...
Marketing vs. Advertising vs. Public Relations: An Analogy
Do you have trouble understanding what the heck the difference is between Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations?...
What Being an Innerpreneur Means to Me (And Only Me)
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again, I did not make the word Innerpreneur up. I was only drawn to it...
The Forms of -preneurship and Your Personal Brand
If we look at -preneurship as a term used to describe our personal brand, what form of -preneurship best communicates...
“Pay What It’s Worth” is Not “Pay What You Can”
As a practitioner of Pay What It’s Worth pricing, I see the business approach of asking a client to pay-what-they-can...
Choose Your Own Character
As this new chapter, a new year, begins I'm considering the story I am writing, and whether the character I'm...
What Icarus Can Teach Us
Do you know the Greek myth of Icarus? Icarus is the son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of...
The Power of Relationships
Every relationship you develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves to help you become more conscious....
Exploring Our Money Shadow
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book from Integral Publishers, Pay What It's Worth: You Don't Need to Set a Price...
F*$k Rich, Let’s All Be Wealthy
This is how I see wealth…
Wealth = the ability to fulfill needs now + in the future
It’s got nothing to do with being rich…
Being wealthy isn’t about what we have, but about who we think we are. It’s about feeling free to fully experience life.
In creating the freedom to be the best me, I am unlocking my ability to be wealthy, and to make money.
I believe that we increase our wealth by recognizing our individual talents and intelligences. This cultivation of our talents and intelligences spirals outwards, increasing the stock of human capital, and helping humanity. As we grow more wealthy, so does our world.
An Affirmation for Wonder
I am in a state of questioning, open and receptive.
I seek to gain understanding of my Self and others.
I allow for surprises and discoveries about what I don’t know.
The Opposite of Consumption Is Not Thrift
It’s generosity.
Cooperation.
Want to change the economy?
Examine your ideas around the act of exchanging. When you are buying or selling, what are you thinking about?
What can I get?
What can I give?
What if you approached the exchange of goods and services as a generous act?
Create Your Own Economy of Integrity
You have a choice in the kind of market economy you participate in. The type of economy you inhabit, as a customer...
Thinking About My Self All the Time
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How Selfish. Egotistical. Narcissistic.
There is something scary about believing that wanting a Self is not selfish.
There’s something terrifying about admitting it’s our natural instinct towards a wholeness that is truly our birthright.
It makes us feel ashamed, judged, blamed. It makes us feel like helpless children.
How Evolutionary.
It’s a new movement for humans to recognize the value in having a Self. And the value in doing things in support of it.
Slowly, generation-ally, evolution-ally, we are waking to this concept. The Baby Boomers were the first batch of humans to understand that wanting a Self is a natural stage in our evolution.
And yet fifty or so years later, mainstream culture and religion still portray supporting a Self as a gluttonous and silly act.
Fantastical Stories of Money and Fame
[tweetmeme] How much do you love them? In the business world, fantastical stories seem especially lauded.
Fast money. Overnight fame.
It just sounds so good, and so easy.
You can’t blame me for wanting it, or wanting to believe in it.
I’m a gambler by nature. After all, I started my own business. I’m all about risky choices. And I can’t help but hear fanciful success stories and want to believe them.
The problem is, I don’t. They’re bullshit.
You Won’t Know How
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Forget How to Do It — Commit to What You Do
You’ll never know how to do it until you commit to what you are doing. Your success in whatever you choose is a matter of commitment.
Your choices are your daily commitment
In my experience, when I completely commit to the what — that something that I feel passionate about — I trigger the how — the means and answers I seek.
Discovering a Sense of Boundaries
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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.
Life Could Be A Dream, Sweetheart
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Dreams.
I’m hesitant to use the word ‘dreams’.
The word has a touchy-feely quality that makes me feel kinda icky. ‘Dreams’ can seem kinda pie-in-the-sky. Especially in business.
It’s not that ‘dreams’ are unrealistic or unreal. God, no.
It’s that people often use the word to talk about things they’re not acting in direction of. They use ‘dreams’ to discuss the things that they hope to get, but are doing nothing to create.
What they’re talking about is dreaming.
And it’s a whole other kettle of fish.