Today’s tip comes from (not) just another hardworking chick: Bridget Kuglin of Sweet B Designs. (See her adorable logo to complete the pun.) Sweet B Designs is the perfect example of heartwork-in-action: Bridget blends art + strategy + communication to do what she loves (make mad pretty things) so her clients can keep doing what [...]
As many of you know, I’ve spent the last five months in Germany focusing on my business and working with heart. On Wednesday, I’m leaving on a jet plane to head back to magnificent Mexico: my heart’s true home. Before I return home to continue my heartwork, I have to apologize to my readers. For [...]
My mentor, strengths coach Brent O’Bannon, loves to talk about BHAGs: James Collins and Jerry Porras’ famous acronym for big, hairy, audacious goals. Realizing your BHAG is all about daring to believe that your wildest dreams will come true, putting these dreams on paper, and designing a strategic plan that will allow them to come [...]
Other than it being pancake month on the ol’ homestead, the hapz in our ‘hood include our dear roommate Vera moving out last Sunday and Roberto and I “moving” into her room in preparation for her replacement. Needless to say, I wasn’t thrilled about the move (or Ver-awesome’s absence) but Roberto urged me to make [...]
Some days, when the going gets tough and I can’t seem to get going, I tell the awesome in my preneur to shut up long enough for me to cry over my student loan statements and drink a box of wine. On special occasions, I visit the Museum of Conceptual Art’s website and type in my [...]
Alright, this is a short one, folks. I’ve got my head down to finish a deadline. (Or is it because I’m softly weeping? Guess you’ll never know.) I know, I know–I’m getting a lil’ too old for Dane Cook. But this little gem always gets me. It wasn’t until I watched this clip with several [...]
Awesomepreneur confession: I am afraid. Popular philosophy says fear is a bad thing, mostly because it is such a hungry little monster it can consume your whole life if you let it. I know. Because I am afraid. This morning I had a heart-to-heart with a fellow awesomepreneur, Javier, a foreign language teacher living in [...]
Somewhere between hunting, gathering, and cube farming, we surrendered to the idea that hard work is synonymous with discomfort. Take the contemporary corporate “uniform,” for example: Who decided that neckties and nylons made people more productive and professional? (This guy.) For most live action Monopoly players, when we don’t leave work frazzled, sore, and exhausted, [...]
