If you spend any time at all online, you will notice in any given day, no fewer than a trillion articles that have titles along the lines of: 5 Ways to Conquer Fear 3 Things You Can Do Right Now to Feel More Confident 10 Ways to Live Boldly and With Purpose Okay, so maybe [...]
Category Archives: self-motivation
Teaching Kids to Innovate
Recently, a magazine I write for asked me to write a back-to-school article about high school. Having no clue where to begin, I called one of my own friends from high school, who is now a high school economics teacher, and asked for help. “What on earth should I write about?” I began. Without missing [...]
Are You a Time Waster?
I heard the urgency in her voice as soon as I picked up the phone. “My GOD,” my friend began. “My pastor’s message was so AWESOME. He talked about time wasters and how so many people waste so much time talking on the phone and staying in the wrong relationships and doing other things that [...]
Straight, no chaser: the truth about my "fearless reinvention"
“A closed mouth never gets fed,” so the saying goes. Over the past week, I have learned first-hand that this is true. My prayers—that business would come, that clients would find me—have been answered several-fold. Now, I’ve been busy marketing myself, mind you, through social media, networking, and writing articles. But much of my new [...]
Lessons learned, in the meantime
I’m in that space. That place, cleverly described as “the lull,” by entrepreneur and blogger Allison Nazarian, as that time “after which came before but before what is next.” Like everyone on the planet, I’ve been in this space many times in my life. Like after I graduated from college and before I got my [...]
The $100 burger: whoa, that's some beef; or is it bull?
Last night, I tuned in to the first episode of this season’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC. I’d planned to watch for the sure-to-be-obnoxious antics of ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (I was not disappointed), but I was pleasantly surprised to see that Curtis Stone was part of the cast. Stone, that hunky, Australian chef [...]
A computer crash jump-started my creativity…almost
“There is tremendous power in putting your ass where you heart wants to be.” — Steven Pressfield The hard drive on my computer crashed nearly a week ago. In the time it took me to update my Linkedin profile and walk to the kitchen for a Sprite, my computer screen faded from color bars to [...]
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