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Self/Business Growth 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...
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
The web is marketing.
We are marketing ourselves each times we click publish.
We are putting our brand, ourselves, on a mass medium.
It sounds like a scary thought but it isn’t.
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.
