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Seven ways to become a crabby broke-ass — part two

[For part one of this article, see the blog post for Monday, December 8.]

Our third suggestion is to be sure to treat all your clients or customers as consumers, and nothing more. They are simply a source of money. Your sole goal is to reach into their wallets (figuratively or digitally please!); not to truly provide value or a service. Your objective is to get those rubes to part with their dollars. That’s what you believe capitalism at its core speaks to you. Dollar signs are where it’s at. If you fix this belief firmly in your mind, it may help you trundle along the path towards the welfare line. [Read more…]

Seven ways to become a crabby broke-ass – part one

Most often, we see publications enticing us to get rich without trying very hard. Spend 90 minutes a week working in your PJs and make millions! On-line techniques for a gazillion dollars! Checks in your mailbox! [Read more…]

How well do you play? Putting the FU in fun!

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.” Thomas Carlyle.

The Academy of Leisure Scientists, a group of academics who study time use, has determined that we get the most satisfaction from leisure activities that are difficult and challenging. It’s best for us to put our time into activities requiring high levels of physical and intellectual energy. [Read more…]

From whence do your beliefs come?

We all believe in things. Sometimes these things are so important as to be core values, such as a belief in God or the Golden Rule. Other beliefs may be further down on our belief hierarchy, like believing we look better wearing green rather than red. [Read more…]

Life in the Key of “G”

I hope this finds you incredibly well, having enjoyed a fabulous Thanksgiving!

As many of you know, 2014 was a rather interesting year for me.  Suffice it to say that there had been many times this year when I shook my fist at the divine and thought in a less than gracious way.  Why?  Because I could not understand how someone like me, who had seemingly done everything in her power to be healthy, would be faced with a significant health issue at 49 years of age.  At those times, I was feeling anything BUT grateful.   My focus was elsewhere.  This was clearly not the “me” that I was before it all started.  It was obvious to me that I needed to re-shift my attention (like so many of us who are trained to notice what is broken, undone or lacking in our lives). For gratitude to meet its full healing potential in my life,  I needed to change my perspective―and pronto. [Read more…]

Burnout!

You fall violently ill one day and there are two physicians who are available to treat you. To your right is Dr. Black, an enthusiastic and skilled doctor who has no experience whatsoever in the disease that ails you. To your left is Dr. White, who is expert on the diagnosis and treatment of your disease, but really doesn’t care about patients, medicine or healing the sick at all. [Read more…]

Playtime?

The luxury of being able to do things at your own pace should be treasured and not ignored. Provided you are creative—and everyone is creative or can develop creativity in some area of life—you can discover (perhaps rediscover) yourself and your outlets for self-expression. [Read more…]

The creative entrepreneur

“Believing in yourself, the genius you, means you have confidence in your ideas before they even exist. [Read more…]

Name it and Tame it!―Gremlins

Your gremlin is your inner critic. It is the most powerful limiting belief. It is that annoying little voice that tries to convince you to play small. Perhaps it is your mother’s voice or the voice of your 9th grade Algebra teacher. Regardless, the bottom-line message from your gremlin is that you are not good enough. Your gremlin might say things like play it safe, don’t try, and that it is safer to stay where you are. It can stop you in your tracks when you are on the edge of success. [Read more…]

What’s the key component to the successful entrepreneurial life?

Philosophers often speak of activities having either intrinsic value or instrumental value. As I understand this, something has intrinsic value if it provides meaning to you in and of itself. An activity that has instrumental value is more of a means to an end. [Read more…]

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