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-trust
The Law of Attraction and the Power of Surrender
Anyone believe in the Law of Attraction? I do, and I’ve been thinking about it an awful lot lately. For those who aren’t familiar, the Law of Attraction states that whatever you think about and really feel, deep down, will manifest in your life. Recently, several things that I thought about and really “felt” I [...]
Eat, Pray…Live
I remember the day I got married like it was yesterday: my soon-to-be husband and I stood in the chambers of the Justice of the Peace, staring blankly at the elderly officiant with wireframe glasses who tried to make us laugh by telling lame jokes. I specifically recall him telling me to hit my husband [...]
Another big dilemma solves itself
I finally did it. I submitted my “Declaration of Intent,” proclaiming my decision to withdraw my son from public school and educate him at home using a curriculum of my choosing, to my county school superintendent. Then, with as much determination and consideration as I had done that, I withdrew my petition and registered my [...]
What my designer taught me about grace
As my first full year in business draws to a close, I find myself doing a lot of introspection and reflection. About what I’ve done well. What I could do better. What type of person I have become and what type of person I need to become, if I’m going to continue to work for [...]
A soloentrepreneur's musings on summer
Today is my son’s last day of school. And while I’m grateful that I’ll no longer have to get up at 6 AM each day to drive him across town to school, I’m a bit anxious, because today marks the day when everything will be different—completely different—from everything I’ve known before. Today marks the entree [...]
I am what I am…except when I'm on Twitter
As a writer, there are two times when I experience anxiety about what to say: 1) when I’m working on a project with a new client whom I want to impress, and 2) when I’m preparing to send an update on Twitter. It sounds ridiculous, I know. I, who am never at a loss for [...]
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 [...]
Riding without training wheels; this time, as an adult
The severance money is gone. All of it. Every single red cent. Gone. Kaput. It sustained me for nearly a year, allowed me to pay off my car, all of my insurances and debts, afforded my son a wonderful Christmas and birthday, a much needed trip to the beach, all of the clothes and supplies [...]
In celebration of self-employment
Ask anyone who has left (or was forced out of) corporate America and decided to work for themselves: being self-employed sure has its perks. You get to set your own hours, choose your clients, schedule your personal life around your work or vice-versa, or take your laptop to the nearest Starbucks, park, or lake and [...]
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