What’s the one thing you can do for your business that will make the biggest difference? (Video)
Being self-employed, you’ve no doubt wondered what you could do for your business that would make a big difference. This video explores that question, and encourages you to do some exploration of your own… As an example of the experimentation I refer to in the video, this was recorded in downtown Missoula, MT. The ambient…
Read MoreWhat Does All Your Stuff Have to Do with Business?
There’s a strong chance that as a self-employed professional, you work at home either part or most of the time, and during the pandemic — with its lockdown and need for physical distancing — working at home has become more significant than ever. Which, good news / bad news, means you’ve had plenty of time…
Read MoreSelf-Care as a Business Owner (Thoughts + Video) [Theme August 2020 ]
As a business owner, it’s entirely possible you forget to take care of yourself. Or you take care of yourself in fits and starts. Or you find yourself working a crazy amount, then burning out for the next week or so. Maybe this sounds familiar to you, or maybe it’s just me? (yikes!) August is…
Read MoreMore Thoughts on “Including That”
In these past weeks I’ve been playing with July’s theme, “I think I’ll include that,” watching all the ways it seems easy for me to include things, and feeling a bit sheepish about the ways I push against things that just are. This past week, I had another chance to notice this. On Fridays,…
Read MoreI Think I’ll Include That (+Video) [Theme July 2020]
What if, rather than pushing against what you don’t like, or don’t want, or don’t know what to do with, you instead choose to include it? By including something, you’re not endorsing it. You’re simply acknowledging what is, and allowing it to just be. I don’t want to do marketing. I think I’ll…
Read MoreGrand Illusion
During lockdown, I’ve been entertaining myself with all kinds of things – books, TV, movies, music – that are old favorites. Which is what lead me to Styx. That’s right: the fluffy-haired bad from the 70′ and 80’s. While listening to their song, Grand Illusion, I was struck by the lyrics, especially in light of…
Read MoreWhy would you want to reinvent yourself? (+Video)
If you’re considering a reinvention, you may be wondering why you’d want to do it. Maybe you feel you need permission, or a really good reason why. You don’t. You can reinvent yourself just because you’ve decided. I’ve got a few reasons you may want to consider, which are captured in this short video. Telling…
Read MoreWhat’s Possible?
From this place right now, as you look out at the next hour, week, or lifetime – what’s possible? I mean, really possible? Imagine allowing yourself to dream, to go into the places you’ve been too shy to admit, or scared to try, or hesitant to even think about. …could I really work for myself?…
Read MoreStillness & Freedom
There’s a stillness in the air, a stillness that’s not normally present. Of course, this is a forced stillness, unanticipated and unprecedented, yet nonetheless, here you are. This can be frightening, to be sure. It can also be freeing. The normal busyness of life makes it tricky to drink in what’s around you, to feel…
Read MoreNow’s the time
Imagine back to when you were working “normally.” If you’re like a lot of us, you may have been wondering about changing things up – maybe you were thinking about introducing something different, like a new direction in your business, or switching the focus of what you offer and to whom. Or maybe you were…
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