When to Change Your Friends
My co-blogger Arianna Huffington (I loved writing that, even though I’m a bottom-rung blogger for her gig… ;-)) quoted what President Charles DeGaulle’s said to his aide Jacques Soustelle when Jacques complained that all of his friends were bitterly opposed to the government’s policies. “Changez vos amis.” (“Change your friends.”) The context here was Arianna’s […]
I Did a Blogging No-No
Basically, I disappeared for three weeks, since my last post. Let me give you the bullet-point update: • We’re in the process of adopting a child. We had a 2, TWO, almost-adoptions in the last month, and it really spun us emotionally. We’re okay, but it took up a lot of my creative/thinking space. • […]
The Curse of Professionalism in Your Business
Have you ever received (or written) an email like this one? “Thank you for your correspondence. We appreciate your desire to contact us, and someone will get back to you shortly.” Kinda cold and stale, eh? I’m used to seeing things like this from corporations, and from the back of our refrigerator, but how about […]
The Art and Science of Business
I was just reading an interview with Wendell Berry in this month’s issue of The Sun Magazine, and he was quoted as saying: “Art is a way of making, and science is a way of knowing. You’re never going to escape the need for either one; you’ve got to have a certain amount of knowledge, […]
Smoothing Cashflow When Your Business Is Small or New
A participant in the Opening the Moneyflow Course has a fairly minimal email list of potential clients, about 80 or so. It’s enough to bring in a few clients, but not enough to keep her pipeline full. While she’s ramping up to increase the list, which is growing every week, she’s still facing that cashflow […]
Discipline versus Flow in Your Business
It’s Wednesday morning, and a stack of to-do’s in your business await you. You need to get on your marketing, you need to deal with the bookkeeping, and those pesky clients keep needing things from you. ;-)And you don’t feel like doing any of it. Instead, you want to just read a book. So, what […]
The Top Five Surprisingly Necessary Qualities for Small Business Owners
It’s no joke, many small businesses end at a young age. Their owners, burnt out, broke, or simply preoccupied, give them up for good. It can be a long, winding, rough path to get a business going. I’ve heard the same stories you have about the overnight sensations. But, for the vast majority of small […]
The Myth of Being Successfully Solo in Business
I want to riff off of the post I put up the end of April, How Productivity Contributes to Global Warming and Debt. The issue, as I was talking about then, was capacity. And yet, there’s an awful lot of things to get done in business. There’s a breakneck pace that many new solo business […]
The Huffington Post–Care to Support Me?
Hey folks, I’m just super excited- I’ve been accepted as a blogger in the business section of The Huffington Post. It’s a big deal- whether or not you agree with the politics (it’s a very progressive-leaning publication) it gets a LOT of views. The connection happened by magic, and I’m excited, as I said, but […]
The Numbers for Making a Living
I was watching a video that Presentation Zen was highlighting. It was David Heinemeier Hansson who was presenting on how to make money online. I found the video is worth watching, simply because what he’s saying is so obvious, and he’s being a bit rude and tongue-in-cheek about it, in a nice way. I’ve had […]