Entrepreneurs Who Travel Aren't Leaving Money, Ideas, and Clarity on the Table Travel has many benefits, some of them quite therapeutic and helpful for your mental health and well-being. Let’s take a look at five different ways you can use travel as a form of therapy and wander to heal yourself. Pay attention to each of them the next time you’re away from home and lean into these therapeutic powers of traveling. Entrepreneurs who travel regularly enjoy greater success. My travel as a new … [Read more...]
A Creative Life Well-Lived: Artist George Rodrigue
Recently, I watched a documentary about artist and philanthropist George Rodrigue. He lived in “Cajun Country” in southwestern Louisiana and was most famous for his “Blue Dog” paintings. But his life and work was about so much more and that’s why it will live on as his legacy to the people who encouraged his creativity for over 50 years. His was a creative life well-lived, and one that continues to be a model for creatives all over the world. A creative life can be a struggle, but it doesn’t … [Read more...]
The Silent Accord
The Silent Accord: The Quiet Tyranny of Total Control Jennifer waited until the last light of day had slipped behind the half-ruined skyline before tapping twice on James’s steel door—two short knocks, followed by one long. The agreed signal. She could hear the hum of the alignment towers from her perch in the alleyway, faint but constant, like the distant buzz of a wasp you could never swat. The door creaked open a sliver, revealing a wary green eye. “It’s me,” she whispered. James stepped … [Read more...]
Panic Attacks: Take Back Control
Panic Attacks and How to Take Back Control of Your Life Panic attacks feel like being trapped in a prison of your own making. When it comes to panic attacks, take back control and you'll change your life forever. Your heart pounds violently in your chest. Your breathing tightens until each breath becomes a conscious struggle. Your thoughts race toward catastrophe. And in those terrifying moments, you become convinced you're dying, losing your mind, or about to lose all … [Read more...]
Boost Your Brain
Boost Your Brain and Change Your Life You are sitting at your computer compiling a report or analyzing marketing data. Perhaps you're an author working on a chapter of your new book. Or maybe you are engaged in a hobby like painting or some other handcraft. You have been working for over an hour and are making good progress. Your mind is clear and focused, and your ideas and thoughts flow freely. You can boost your brain and change your life, and that is exactly what I'm going to share with … [Read more...]
Overcoming the Fear of Selling
Overcoming the Fear of Selling Selling shouldn’t feel like a struggle, but for many online entrepreneurs, it does. You know that in order to grow, you have to put yourself out there, market your offers, and confidently ask for the sale. Once you master overcoming the fear of selling and of being visible, everything changes. Yet every time you go to promote your business, something holds you back. You hesitate before posting. You soften your message, afraid of sounding too pushy. You delay … [Read more...]
Who Are You? Really?
Answering the question "Who Are You? through Authenticity As Our True Self Do you know who you really are? Are you living your true self day in and day out? For many of us, these are questions we rarely ask ourselves, and all too often, we do not live fully in accordance with our authentic nature. So, who are you, really? In 1978, the rock group The Who released a song... Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, who?Who are you?Who, who, who, … [Read more...]
Mental Focus is Crucial for Success
Why Mental Focus Is Crucial For Success Mental focus is the most important skill when it comes to success in any area of your life. It, more than talent or skill, will help move you forward and help you reach your goals, no matter what they are. To focus means to concentrate on a particular task or problem for a period of time. It’s something you can get better at with practice. For now, let’s look at exactly why mental focus is crucial for success and how it can help you get things … [Read more...]
Sparking Creativity for Joy and Profit
Changing Your Viewpoint for Sparking Creativity The story of the humble clothespin teaches us how changing your perspective can help you look at a problem differently. Establishing a new viewpoint gets your mind thinking creatively. That's precisely what an intelligent clothespin marketer did in the mid-nineteenth century when he faced a sales problem. Here's the story about how sparking creativity for joy and profit made a difference... In 1853, David M. Smith invented the precursor of … [Read more...]
The Summer of Catalina Island
Catalina Island It was the summer of 1995 and I was once again finding my way as I reinvented my life. I was teaching math, science, and technology at a Middle School in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles and questioning my motives for continuing to work for the Los Angeles Unified School District. asd asd asd asd asd asd asd I’m bestselling USA Today and Wall Street Journal author Connie Ragen Green. My goal is to help at least a thousand people … [Read more...]