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Business, Curiosity, Self-awareness 17 May 2013

When Should You Start Following Your Big Dream?

One of the great gifts that comes with the work I do is that people share some big and tender questions with me. I’m always humbled by the experience of hearing them, because it’s such a vulnerable thing to open up and share the stuff we are wrestling with. I received an email recently from [...]

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Beauty Tuesdays, Curiosity, Fun 8 Jan 2013

Beauty Tuesday: On William Blake, Desire Mapping, and Pinterest

William Blake's painting of Los Entering the Grave: a man entering an arched doorway carrying a lantern

I’m starting a new tradition. Every Tuesday I intend to celebrate beauty in some form. Beauty Tuesdays! I’m diggin’ it. Hope you do too. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Danielle Laporte’s wonderful Desire Map program. I’ve settled on five core desired feelings for myself: Freedom. Alignment. Conviviality. Evolution. Delight. (Yes, they spell “faced.” I don’t know what [...]

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Business, Curiosity 7 Jan 2013

Scaling Up, Step 2a: Your People Plan

Photo: dozens of birds sitting on telephone wires, with two birds flying overhead

This is the third post in a series about four things that need to be in place in order to scale your business: Enough self-awareness and vulnerability to face your fears. A people plan. Systems – technological & human – that can take you from here to the next level. Absolute confidence that your revenue [...]

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Business, Curiosity 21 Dec 2012

Scaling Up, Step 1: Fear of Flying

Photo of people on a chair-swing carousel, one person with arms outspread

In my last post, I wrote about four things that need to be in place in order to scale your business: Enough self-awareness and vulnerability to face your fears. A people plan. Systems – technological & human – that can take you from here to the next level. Absolute confidence that your revenue model is [...]

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Business, Curiosity 19 Dec 2012

Scaling Up: 4 Things Your Growing Business Needs From You

Photo of dew drops on flower buds

You have built a successful something. (A business, project, campaign, whatever.) You have sacrificed – are sacrificing – sleep, fresh air, your social life, to make it happen. And it is taking off, like a jet engine. Demands on you and your time are increasing; pressure is mounting; and you know you are on the [...]

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Business, Curiosity, Self-awareness 7 Dec 2012

How to Make Smart Systems Work for Fallible Humans

Photo of cufflinks with question marks on them - photo by Oberazzi on Flickr

I’m a big fan of systems. Especially the ones that promise to help me make fewer mistakes (or at least, learn from my mistakes more quickly), become more efficient, and/or love my life more. I mean, I looooove a good system. I read Gretchen Rubin’s wonderful book, The Happiness Project, and I thought: Finally! A [...]

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Curiosity, Self-awareness, Values 26 Nov 2012

Transform Your Bucket List with Desired Feelings

I have a bucket list. It has exactly two things on it: See Bruce Springsteen live. Visit the Rothko Chapel. And I’m crossing item #1 off my list tonight. So I think it’s safe to say that the remaining item does not meet the minimum requirements of a “list.” I have friends with great bucket [...]

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Curiosity, Self-awareness 8 Nov 2012

Who am I to be Creative, Resourceful, and Whole?

Photo: abstract-looking closeup of a paintbrush

I attended a course recently where one of the central tenets we were asked to hold was, “People are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.” That may seem benign enough to you, but as I sat with the invitation to believe this – really believe it – I realized it was staggeringly hard for me to [...]

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Business, Curiosity, Self-awareness 31 Oct 2012

Expert Enough: Slaying Imposter Syndrome and Stepping Up to the Mic

Photo: microphone and empty seats

I’m at a conference, looking forward to learning from the experts at the front of the room. The topic is right up my alley: something I practice, but want to get better at. The session begins, and twenty minutes later, I haven’t heard anything new. Unbidden, a thought pops into my head: “Well, this isn’t [...]

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Business, Community, Curiosity, Technology 26 Oct 2012

A Quick and Dirty to Creating Personas

Photo: Bea and the sun, by davic

I mentioned in my post on user matrices that I’d be blogging more about personas, and how you can use them to get inside your customer’s* mind. Personas are an underused tool that almost anyone can benefit from using. They’re an amazing framework for helping us get outside our own heads and unpacking our assumptions [...]

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