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Kendall SummerHawk is “an expert in business coaching, branding, and marketing for self-employment success.”
In this article, she is addressing business growth – but the emotional and psychological issues she talks about are important for other areas of personal development as well.
What You Must Let Go Of To Grow
I hear it all the time: “Kendall, I [...]
A critic once described the mind of Jonathan Miller as “a turmoil of sizzling wires, connecting drama with anthropology, literature with quantum physics, linguistics with genetic theory.”
From the PBS site of Bill Moyers Journal / Jonathan Miller
What caught my attention to write this post was the discord Dr. Miller has expressed about his choosing various [...]
From article There are choices! Making choices: a gifted case report, By Noks Nauta
Kitty did well in school, until seventh grade, when she began to experience academic and social problems; she retreated into herself and for a long time didn’t like going to school.
After graduation, Kitty started looking for a fulltime job. She saw an ad [...]
Jonathan Mead and Steve Pavlina write about the kinds of attitudes, mindsets and self-limiting beliefs toward work – and our abilities – that may keep us from even attempting an entrepreneurial dream. Mead writes:
“So many people don’t do what they love for a living, because they think they don’t deserve it. It’s more important for [...]
Terri Levine of the Coach Institute is offering a series of free videos on how to be a better coach, get more clients, and make more money.
See her promo video at Coaching Resources.
The smARTist Telesummit 2009 package
Professional Keynote Presentations on a range of critical Art Career strategies by 11 Experts and successful Artists.
MP3 Recordings of all 13 Professional Art-Career Sessions. A complete development conference… 2 days of Master Mind Panel Discussions, in which the speakers discussed attendees’ questions and stories.
PDF copies of all handouts. Detailed how-to, step-by-step, [...]
In Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen “takes Alice on a wild run through the countryside. But no matter how fast Alice runs she can’t seem to get anywhere.
“Finally, breathless from her efforts, the Queen allows her to rest long enough for Alice to comment that ‘Everything is just as it was!’ to which the [...]
Valerie Young, Dreamer in Residence at ChangingCourse, joined Yanik Silver and Maverick Business Adventures on an extreme business trip, and interviewed some members of the exclusive club for successful entrepreneurs.
See the video at The Inner Entrepreneur.
Collecting stuff – both physically and mentally – can fuel our creative work and motivation, and also help us realize what interests we have that could be used for new job possibilities or entrepreneurial ventures.
The photo is acclaimed painter Mark Ryden, who says, “In the same spirit as those earlier collectors filling their cabinets of [...]
Pamela Slim is author of Escape from Cubicle Nation. In a post she talks about some of the emotional aspects of following our entrepreneurial urges:
“Trying to wait until you have enough courage to start your business is fighting the way your brain is wired. One of the deepest layers of the human brain is a [...]
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Now a millionaire entrepreneur with multiple businesses, Ali Brown is consistently generating a 7-figure income by using email, the Internet, and information products. She is teaching how to do it in her new program. Here is a testimonial:
“Your Online Success Blueprint was [...]
Age and maturity can bring a new level of passion, ability and insight for creative expression. There are many examples of people making significant creative projects in middle age and beyond.
[From my article Maturity and Creativity.]
A new Psychology Today magazine article highlights a number of people who make contributions to the arts and sciences as [...]
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Change you can believe in
“A lot of people dream of escaping ‘Dilbert’s world’ and being their own boss. Perhaps the biggest reason these dreams get derailed is money. Or, more accurately, faulty thinking about what it means to make a living.”
Career change author and expert [...]
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Valerie Young of ChangingCourse describes her company’s mission:
“After spending a mind-numbing seven years making a mind-numbing 90 mile a day commute to my even more mind-numbing corporate job – and then successfully getting out – I’ve dedicated my life’s work to help others do the same.
“Since 1996 ChangingCourse.com [...]
Barbara Sher on jobs, scanner personality, finding your vocation, becoming an entrepreneur
Barbara Sher writes about and leads retreats for Scanners – “also known as renaissance men and women, eclectic experts, happy amateurs and delighted dilettantes.”
She notes they do not generally follow a linear career path, but may flourish with a series of jobs that are [...]
Contrary to how it may seem when you’re stuck in an unsatisfying work environment, a job could actually be the context for expressing your talents as fully as you can.
Human potential author Jack Canfield (The Success Principles) thinks “What often stops people from expressing their true desire is that they don’t think they can make [...]
There’s got to be a better way
A New York Times article just posted is headlined, “U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 14-Year High” and notes “a fresh 240,000 American jobs disappeared in October, the 10th consecutive month of retrenchment. It brought the toll of lost jobs to 1.2 million for the year.”
Are there viable alternatives to standard [...]
