Just over a week ago I had a Firestarter one-on-one session with the White Hot Truth teller herself, Danielle LaPorte. We were chatting about what fires me up, my website, what I’m creating and what I want to create and she said: “You know, it’s all here. You’ve got it. You’re already doing it. But [...]
Who the hell do you think you are? What makes you think you have anything worthwhile to say? You are one deluded chickadee if you think anyone wants to listen to you. You are so boring. So self-involved. Don’t you know that everyone would be a lot happier if you just kept quiet and let [...]
A friend sent me a copy of an article “Death by Information Overload” from the Harvard Business Review. I think the headline says it all. It canvassed the usual complaints of living and working in a constantly connected state. A study of Microsoft workers found that: “…once their work had been interrupted by an email [...]
Wholeness. That’s my word for 2010. I’ve never chosen a word (or perhaps more accurately had a word choose me) for the year. To have a word present itself to be the focus of my intention and awareness… it’s actually kinda awesome. How my word chose me Like many people, I found myself midway through [...]
Just over two weeks ago I had emergency surgery due to an ongoing condition I have called Crohn’s. Since my diagnosis over 11 years ago, I’ve managed the condition with medication and the need for surgery wasn’t even raised as a possibility until recently. It all happened very quickly. In the days that followed the [...]
When I sat down to write this post today, I got stuck. I had a long list of ideas to write about – thoughts I wanted to share about mindful business, non-sleazy marketing and surviving the solopreneur life. But none of them seemed enough. Because none of the things I wanted to talk about offered [...]
