Traps That Wisdom Entrepreneurs Can Fall Into
As a wisdom entrepreneur, there are many places where I can get stuck. Here are a few of traps that I fall into: Skimping on "dream" time. This is a big one for me. As someone who likes to get...
When Was The Last Time You Experienced Joy Like This?
A friend on Facebook posted this video of a creative, joyful start to a wedding: It's been awhile since I blogged, two weeks to be exact. While you may have been wondering about the absence (or not), I was doing...
Being Scrappy and Running a Marathon
These are just two lessons I've been learning recently with my new venture, My Alumni Link. It's too new for a website but the business stems from success with the Networking Naturally Program. Whether you are a wisdom entrepreneur or...
Are You Preparing For Your Own Demise?
That sounds worse than I really intend it to. What triggered that thought was an article from the Wall Street Journal, titled "Netflix Boss Plots Life After DVD." Quoting from the article:"...Netflix's chief executive officer, Reed Hastings, thinks his core...
Perspective on Bad Times
When people ask me about my work history, I talk about my first job out of school, in 1983, working in a nuclear power plant. I talk about the experience of working in a heavily unionized, male-dominated environment, and walking...
How Good Are You at Self-Advocacy?
It's been awhile since I posted here. I've been learning about advocacy and self-advocacy. In preparing for a talk in Houston next week for the Juvenile Arthritis annual conference, I looked up the definition of "advocate." (The title of my...
Social Media is For Lawyers, Too
I was interviewed for an article in the Illinois Bar Journal, a magazine distributed by the Illinois State Bar Association. The topic? How attorneys can use social media to build their businesses. The writer did a great job at pulling...
Iran and Social Media
The power of technology to create a groundswell was shown in Iran this last week. People all over the world are seeing and hearing and reading what's going on with the protests over the recent elections and the response by...