How to Make a Vision Board
One of my most popular past blog posts is Vision Boards: A Quick Story. I wrote it months before the DVD The Secret was released. Then John Assaraf’s story of manifesting his giant mansion by using vision boards and the law of attraction (in The […]
What to Do When Your Creative Spark Dies
One of my Platinum mastermind clients, a successful corporate trainer, issued a plea to her peers last week in the Facebook group. She wrote: Today I am having a tough time creating. Feeling rather overwhelmed and a bit stressed out. Does this happen to anyone […]
Straight Talk About Raising Your Prices
It seems logical to lower your prices if you’re not getting all the clients you want. Of course, it’s tempting for many solo or small business owners to justify going low. But is the answer to lower … or could it be to raise your prices? So, […]
5 Business Travel Apps that You’ll Actually Use (and LOVE!)
If you travel for business, no doubt you’ve got more than one app that was supposed to make travel more convenient. But have you noticed? Apps can become clutter because they’re way too easy and cheap to download. Yes, there are lots of cool apps […]
Are All Your Great Ideas Just a Cover for Your Fear?
Paula was a nurse practitioner. She paid for the courses. She got her certifications. She worked for a year at this. Then she decided it wasn’t for her. She knew that being a healer was her calling. So she got her massage therapy certification. Within […]
Switching Careers
The First Step to Switching Careers It’s that nagging voice, and it’s getting louder. You’re thinking of switching careers and taking your next leap, but you don’t know if you can do it. The critical inner voice says: No. You can’t do it. It’s too […]
Change Career at 40
Change Career at 40? “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. […]
[Part 2] Creating College: 5 Things I Wish I Knew as an Undergrad
This is Part Two of a two-part series based on a Keynote Presentation I gave at a college orientation. Click here to read the first three things I wish I knew as an undergrad in Part 1 of this series. Here are the remaining two […]
Creating College: 5 Things I Wish I Knew as an Undergrad
Two weeks ago, I flew to Philadelphia to give the keynote address at a college orientation. The title of my address was the title of this post. This is not a copy of the actual speech (as several have requested), but this is the basic […]
The Yammer and the Tweak
Note: You will probably want to read the last post on tweaking before you read this post! What’s a yammer? A yammer is any old voice that speaks up when something, anything, gets a little challenging.  Or when a new twist enters a situation. You […]