Living life well

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Enliven your work!

December 7th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Feature Article, Living life well

Let’s stop the deadening, go-through-the-motions, throwaway tasks. Here are specific suggestions to trim your to-do list right now.

Can we hate ourselves to success?

April 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Feature Article, Living life well

Recently I happened upon a series of blog comments where writers pledged to hate themselves more to spur themselves on to greater success. Getting down on ourselves is easy to do, but I don’t think it’s the answer.

3 things I dislike about the Gladwell 10,000-hour Law

April 10th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Feature Article, Living life well

Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery, but author Tama J. Kieves says there is no precedent for becoming yourself. “Obey your own authority,” she says. And I agree.

Cold calling and its connection to creativity

March 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Living life well

Psychotherapist says, “The risk you take has a feedback effect on the unconscious. The unconscious will give you ideas and it wants you to act on them. The more courage you have when you act, the more ideas it will give you.”

Trusting life’s journey

December 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Living life well

In this period of intense New Year’s resolutions development and goal setting, I’d like to share with you a book I recently discovered that’s totally different from the advice I see most everywhere, in part because it is so time INsensitive. This Time I Dance! Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love by Tama J. Kieves (c 2002) is unlike any other book I’ve read on discovering your life’s work because it recognizes how long the process can take.

Perry Como: His life lessons

December 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Living life well

As a child I watched singer Perry Como on TV. What I didn’t know about him at the time was his reputation for exception integrity, which is so refreshing considering the excessive publicity given today to undeserving celebrities.

Writing lists . . . let me count the ways

September 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Living life well

Many of us write the standard to-do list each day. However, there are other lists we can also write to direct our business tasks or calm our stress minds. Here are five more suggestions.

Enough of this know-nothing “mindset”!

September 13th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Living life well

A moment of truth for entrepreneurs—and every U.S. demographic—is coming. U.S. Election Day is less than two months off on November 2. It’s time for us to get our heads out of the sand and resolve to vote. We still have the time to study the issues and the candidates so that our votes are informed votes.

Here are my goals. What are yours?

August 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Living life well

Of course I have monetary goals for my business in marketing coaching and information. But I have other goals as well. One is to help self-employed service providers develop their businesses (and achieve their income goals). Another is “to be heard,” a yearning that is more difficult to pin down.

We are what we read. So maybe I should read better stuff?

July 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Living life well

I’ve been thinking I should upgrade what I’m feeding my brain. That while I continue to gain new facts, my current info diet is more akin to mushrooms that have been breaded and deep fried than to raw broccoli. Specifically, I think my reading menu should be broader and more substantive, especially in the areas of history, the arts and even literary fiction.

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