Have you ever heard yourself say… I can’t it’s too hard that’s for someone else i’m not good enough she’s a lot better/smarter/younger/prettier/faster I’ll never finish I suck Suck is a feeling. An ugly, miserable feeling, but just a feeling. It’s really hard to fix suck. Your brain has nothing to latch onto, no concrete [...]
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Summer’s almost here. When we were kids summer was about freedom. No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks, as the song goes. When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time at the beach. My friends and I threw little rocks at big rocks. If the little rocks broke [...]
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My friend Larah at BrainyFeet started a mutiny. I joined her mutiny two weeks ago. The basic premise behind Larah’s mutiny is that our societies’ systems are broken. The purpose of being a mutineer is to take back our social systems and do what you want on your own terms. Our systems of work and [...]
More Please: Gin, Mutiny and how we broke our careers →
We’ve talked about fear here before. Fear is one of those nasty things that keeps you form doing things you really want to do. The better you understand it, the easier it becomes to control. Last night I learned a whole lot more about fear at Harvard Medical School. I went to a seminar on science and [...]
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Envy. Jealousy. The green-eyed monster gets a bad rap. It makes us think of Fatal Attraction and relationships gone bad. We imagine cat fights and mean girls in high school. What if envy isn’t all boiled-bunny bad? The mean girls and bad relationships and insecurities are all the dark side. Envy doesn’t have to mean taking something [...]
More Please: The Green Eyed Monster →I tried a little experiment at Thanksgiving. I went to visit my parent who had just moved. They didn’t have internet, phone or TV yet. Not even mobile. They live in some kind of weird zone not covered by any cell tower. I was without internet for 2 WHOLE DAYS. My heart stopped, I started [...]
More Please: You may not be as hooked on the internet as you think →Borders Books & Music is going out of business. I got my start in marketing and bookkeeping there, so its been on my mind a bit. Next week, I’ll share a post on what they did wrong and how you can prevent those mistakes in your business. (Tip sheet subscribers already saw that content. What? You’re [...]
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I had a convo a few weeks ago with Iain Gray at Ten More Clients.** It came up that working for yourself is an emotional rollercoaster. For every step forward in the business you have to grow as a person. Hits you take in business feel intensely personal. One of the (many) emotional issues that comes [...]
More Please: The Emotional Toll of Entrepreneurship, with dragons →
