Mindset
Is Getting a Job the Answer When Your Business Isn’t Thriving?
If you are a solopreneur, business owner, or home based CEO, you work for yourself. Oh, I know you actually work for your clients but my point is you aren’t working for some large corporation, punching a time clock. In fact, you probably work longer hours than you ever did if you worked in corporate…
Finding Your Tribe: Close Encounters of the High School Kind
School Daze Recently, I traveled up to Castine Maine for my first high school reunion. Now, while it was my first, it wasn’t the first, in fact I’d been out of touch with my classmates for over three decades. High school wasn’t an experience I wanted to relive or even celebrate, it was instead a…
How to Find the Buried Treasure in You
Have you ever noticed how you can feel really confident on many levels, but just one unsuccessful experience will suddenly translate into you are a failure at everything? It’s crazy really, but sometimes it takes just one pivotal challenge to suddenly rattle your confidence in ways you didn’t even think were possible. It Can’t Happen…
I Love You, Just Not Your Behavior
A dear friend of mine recently tried to take his life. Now, you will do one of two things right now. You will either continue reading and be open to what I’m going to share, or like 80% of people you will find yourself too uncomfortable to continue. Each of us has our darkside, our…
Success Nightmares: What’s Keeping You Up at Night?
Success Nightmares? Having recently completed a very large project I was caught off guard when I found myself unable to sleep with nightmares about the project despite it being completed and turned over to the client. I didn’t have dreams about it in the last three months when I was in the thick of it,…
3 Fast Ways to Find Your Calm in the Middle of Chaos
Working on a tight deadline recently, I found myself stretched beyond my usual capacity for chaos and craziness and in great need of some fresh ways to get grounded fast, and find my inner flame (that positive place that I usually come from, but sometimes it goes a bit dark.) Here are 3 fast techniques…
#1 Ingredient to Success in Life and Business
It is easy to get puffed up about the superiority of your product or service. The hitch is that this is only in your own mind and is how your ego is tripping up your success. Without fail, every contractor that came on the job site immediately sought to show me ways someone else needed…
How to Keep Your Cool When Everything Gets Crazy
Life comes at us hard and fast on most days. If you are at all like me, you strive to have an even temper, a balanced outlook, and not let the turkeys get you down. But there are those times, those circumstances, and those people that will simply push every button you have and you’ll…