What’s in the Water?
Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream
In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.
Alien vs. Dinosaur: The key to finding wisdom when the inner debates rage
Last week I wrote, "The wisdom we need to grow our businesses arises from a good feeling in the here and now." But what can you do when what is arising is a noisy debate between your inner alien and dinosaur? What can you do about finding wisdom then? Wisdom isn't a...
Find the wisdom to grow your biz in a good feeling
When I look back over the years that I've been in business, I see that my best decisions have all been grounded in a good feeling. I'm not talking about feeling blissed out or jazzed or confident, though those things have sometimes accompanied the good feeling. I'm...
Pssst! You don’t need to believe that thought
A zillion thoughts pass through our minds every day. I've heard numbers ranging from 30,000 to 100,000, but hey, who's counting? Whatever the number, we have way more thoughts than we can possibly think into. Which begs the question, do we need to believe what we...
Self-improvement, the End of the Road
I'm writing this from a light and airy second story apartment overlooking Puget Sound. It's a few minutes before 6:00am, and I was awakened a short time ago by the raucous calls of shorebirds wheeling through the air above the beach. It's the sixth day of my seven day...
Ferries, perception, and wellbeing: Shaking it up with the Three Principles
A while back I was driving past a large-ish park in Seattle when I glimpsed a Washington State Ferry amid the trees at the entrance. I looked again, and the flash of green and orange, which I had taken for the characteristic stripes on many ferries, resolved into the...
The Law of Attraction: A Reality Check for the Self Employment Dream
One of the themes that runs through my work is the distinction between the creative power of thought and the resource-depleting practice of wishful thinking. In other words, how does the Law of Attraction work, really? And how can we use it to manage for happiness?...
Nothing to Fear: The Innocent Origins of Scarcity Thinking
This is a revised version of a post I wrote last year. It's updated to reflect the evolution of my understanding of what's going on when we experience scarcity and what we can do about it. Once upon a time there were three little pigs. When they turned 18, the little...
Money: How to close the conversation gap with authentic pricing
It's one of those beautiful situations in which you're in a great conversation about your work. Everything is going so well. Until the talk turns to money. Suddenly you're out of synch and that wonderful connection you had is broken. What happened? Trying to appear...
Why I’m not sucking my thumb and other happy thoughts
We do not need to get over fear, anxiety, and the blues to have wonderful lives and successful businesses. If we did, I'd be sucking my thumb instead of writing this newsletter. Honest. What I've discovered is that it's not negative thoughts and the moods they produce...