Posted in Uncategorized, business, career transition, change, coaching, entrepreneur, life style, personal development, personal growth, self-development, solopreneur on Jun 19th, 2009
I told my friend Jean Feraca, host of Here on Earth recently how much of a genius I feel in her presence. She always brings out the best in me. She told me that was one of the nicest compliments she ever received. Truthfully, I was not going for buttering her up - I was sincere [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, business, career transition, change, coaching, entrepreneur, life style, personal development, personal growth, self-development, solopreneur on Jun 12th, 2009
Today I have been reaching out to people to ask for endorsements for my book. It’s quite a humbling experience. It kicks up my comparison gremlins as well as my I’m-not-as-far-along-as-I-should-be-by-this-point gremlins. I’ve had to put these characters inside my head in the corner and have given them cookies to shut them up! I’ve also [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, business, career transition, change, coaching, entrepreneur, life style, personal development, personal growth, self-development, solopreneur on Jun 9th, 2009
Today in conversation with a client who has recently left corporate America - actually she lost her job with thousands of others at her company - we started sifting through who she wants to be as she reconstitutes herself. She’s considering a combination of consulting, training and coaching. But she’s wondering about her stint in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, business, career transition, change, coaching, entrepreneur, life style, personal development, personal growth, self-development, solopreneur on Jun 7th, 2009
More and more I find myself quoting what I’ve learned from my forthcoming book, Scrappy Startups to my clients. I had hoped that my book would inspire people to create their own businesses and I’m finding that is true - even before it’s published. It’s due out in December, but hopefully it can do a lot [...]
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This morning’s Good Morning America show featured a supermarket in Pennsylvania, Giant Foods in Willow Grove, where many of the employees lost a ton of weight. How did they do it?
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Posted in Uncategorized, business, career transition, change, coaching, entrepreneur, life style, personal development, personal growth, self-development, solopreneur on Jun 1st, 2009
Many people who are faced with the task of starting a blog wonder what they are going to write about. And even though I’m a writer (as well as a coach), with a book coming out in December no less (Scrappy Startups), I have had the same difficulty. What will I write about? And my [...]
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Posted in business, career transition, change, coaching, entrepreneur, life style, personal development, personal growth, self-development, solopreneur on Nov 16th, 2008
Ok - I left off some time ago. I was stymied by my commitment to write about podcasts I was listening to. And then I hit a fallow time - I was really taken by the election (who wasn’t) and so was consuming all my free time focused on everything I could find on it.
Now [...]
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