Moments of the Divine, In Your Own Backyard
Backyards have a special place in my heart. My backyard serves as a refuge, an every day sanctuary from the outside world. Literally on the other side of the fence, is a public sidewalk, a well-trafficked street, and the entrance...
Making Better Use of Your Brain
After my experience with burnout last summer, I've had a fascination with how the brain works. At my lowest point last year, I could feel how limited my capacity was to take in new information. I can still remember one...
You know a word is overused when it becomes part of someone's Twitter handle, as in @janesmithrocks. Whatever happened to imagination and creative writing?
Why Management Guru, Tom Peters, Responded to My Tweet
Not long ago, I read a post on Tom Peter’s blog that I enjoyed, where one of his points was the futility of planning ahead. I tweeted about it, referencing the blog post: @tom_peters advice for Living Life to the...
Part 2: A New Roadmap to Building Something Big and Lasting
The startup phase is tricky, because we can fool ourselves that we are making progress, when we are not. This is one of the many lessons I'm taking away from the book, The Lean Startup. This is the second part...
A Time to Bloom
Spring is my favorite season. It's a time of re-birth in nature. Every year in late February, I smile when I see the dull green of daffodil shoots poking up above the mulch. By March the yellow bouquets are gracing...
Part 1: A New Roadmap for Building Something Big and Lasting
The sign of a good book for me is one that I wish I had read years ago. So it was for Pam Slim's book, Escape from Cubicle Nation and more recently, with Jonathan Fields' book, Uncertainty: Turning Fear and...
3 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
Entrepreneurs by definition are attempting something no one else has done before. (I'm not counting franchisees in this category.) And under those circumstances, you will: Have some fear (maybe LOTS) Need to communicate to others what you are trying to...