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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 [...]
Why would I care about my life purpose if I can’t pay my bills?
In my last post, I talked about why finding your life purpose matters not only for your happiness, but also for your ability to succeed. Shortly after I wrote it, I got a call from a client whose son’s life is in shambles. A day later, I was talking with a friend and fellow coach [...]
Knowing your life purpose; why does it matter?
Not everyone thinks that “finding your life purpose” is important. Instead, they think that it is:
Too self-absorbed and even self-indulgent
Not a high priority, especially in difficult times
A personal growth topic to be pursued at best in your spare time
And I can understand that point of view; I probably would have said something similar in [...]
Career choices made and regretted…
Wouldn’t it be great to back and relive some of your life with the wisdom you’ve accumulated? One of the things I’d definitely do differently, is get out of the career that didn’t suit me much earlier than I did. (Actually, I probably wouldn’t choose it in the first place.)
I still remember the very first [...]
Denise Wakeman shares some thoughts about being an introvert running a successful online business
For those who don’t know her, Denise Wakeman is a well-respected internet marketing strategist and co-founder of the Blog Squad. She graciously accepted to be interviewed last week on her take on sensitive people having businesses online, and it was a fun conversation.
She had never looked the topic of “sensitive people in business” before but [...]
Being grounded; why bother?
How many times have you heard the advice to “be more grounded”. It’s one of those motherhood statements that you agree with but don’t always remember to implement.
And if you don’t implement something it either means that you haven’t made it a priority or you don’t know how. That’s certainly been the case with me.
So [...]
Are you feeling or thinking about the feeling?
I’m a practical person and if you’re like me, the first question you might ask is: what does it matter?
For some of us, it matters a lot because it changes how we make decisions. Let’s see if you recognize this pattern:
You’ve been wanting to decide on something relatively important: your business niche or direction, whether [...]
The power of intention or coincidence…again?
I wondered whether to let you see my convoluted thinking, but what the heck, here it is.
This summer we’ve had a lot of daddy-long-legs (a type of spider) in the bathroom. Who knows why; maybe there was a nest in the laundry conduits.
I used to have major spider phobia and though I’m no longer as [...]
Challenges of being a sensitive person in business
In the last post, I described some of the ways in which an entrepreneur, executive or manager’s sensitivity would be an asset in doing their work.
Most sensitives would tell you that it’s been difficult functioning in our mainly action-oriented, fast-paced and attention-seeking culture and business world. For example, sensitive persons would tend to:
Find confrontations [...]
Positive consequences of having a sensitive nature as a business person
I define a sensitive person as someone who is affected more than average by their environment and especially by other people’s reactions and emotions.
Traditionally, that trait is viewed as a negative, as something that must be overcome. But that point of view overlooks that being sensitive is also a gift.
Here are 5 of the ways [...]