Personal Success

Find Your Joy and You Won’t Need Strategy

Find your joy is an unusual topic for me here, usually I’m touting the best strategies, proven tactics, helpful tools to grow your design practice. Have I lost my mind? Am I indulging in a temporary zen moment? No, this is for real. In fact, moving forward, I’m going to be infusing my posts with…

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3 Fast Fixes to Turn Your Fear Into Fuel and Move Your Business Forward

Fear is the only thing that is stopping you from getting exactly what you want and fear is something that is created inside of you. Whether you grapple with fear of failure or fear of success (much more common), fear of being poor or fear of being rich, fear of not having enough clients or…

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Small Business Success Tips: 5 Sneaky Ways You Are Sabotaging Your Success

Success requires focus, commitment, resilience, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to move your business forward. It is all too easy to be derailed by temporary obstacles, to spin your wheels in confusion and chaos, and to allow poor choices and bad habits to stall your climb to the top. #1 Sickness You…

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Take Action: 3 Steps to Ditching the Drama and Finding Your Sunny Side

A problem is simply a label you have applied to something in your life. I am fond of correcting that word choice into “a solution waiting to happen.” In actuality, a problem is only created by the way you frame any given situation or event. When I was younger, I had a lot of problems…

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3 Ridiculously Simple Steps to Stop the Stupid Loop and Get Smart in Business and Life!

Do you know that feeling of going around in circles about something and nothing is moving forward?  Your frustration is growing by the minute and you actually start soliciting total strangers for their advice. (Okay, well maybe you didn’t go that far, but you know what I mean.) Well, that’s called The Stupid Loop.  It’s…

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The Surefire Formula for Failure . . . Is This You?

Do you remember the classic crooner Frank Sinatra? I ask only because in today’s high tech, warp speed world, classics come and go almost as quickly as a new trend or fad. Sinatra had, among his many hits, a song title “I Did It My Way.” And I realized the other day that has been…

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5 Steps to Boost Your Business and Referrals

Melissa Galt, Prosper by Design, discusses how an incentive or a marketing gold nugget can work with your business model. Take a look at the five ideas to boost your business and referrals and see how many of them you can fit into your business quickly and easily.

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5 Steps to Creating Your Own Tribe

Building a business community, fostering your own tribe is about stepping out of the small self you are and moving into the bigger self you can be when going farther together. Here are five essential building blocks to creating your own tribe.

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5 Simple Steps to Creating a Business of Impact & a Life of Vision

Stop spending your work day rushing from crisis to crisis and struggling to create a long range plan! Here are five steps that you can take quickly and comfortably to design your own business and life success.

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