Archive for December, 2009

The main reason people don’t leave their jobs to start a business

I would have thought it would be either because they:

Don’t think they can afford it
Need the benefits
Don’t have an idea for a business
Don’t know what to do
Are scared to fail
Are worried about other people’s opinions (their families’, mainly)

Those are all valid reasons. I had the delightful opportunity to interview Valerie Young, an experienced “out-of-the-box” career [...]

What if life just sucks?

That’s what life transition coach Paula Harvey and I talked about in a recent teleseminar. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it?
Actually, it was! Let’s be realistic, sometimes life is difficult and we really feel beaten down, or we have people in our life who are going through a bad time and find it hard to believe in [...]