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.
Authentic Promotion: Insight, lightness, & traction for intentional entrepreneurs
If conventional marketing and sales methods leave you feeling like you need a bath, here's a free workbook that teaches you the essentials of Authentic Promotion. Get your free copy of the Joyful Connections: 12 Principles of Authentic Promotion workbook by signing up...
Affirmations for Success: How to Use Them to Get What You Intend and Intend What You Get
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that affirmations for success, in other words making affirmative, present tense statements, can help you get the things you wish for. It's often associated with the Law of Attraction. But sometimes affirmations for success...
How to Make Money Doing What You Love While Serving Your Muse
When you work for yourself because you love what you do, your muse—your source of inspiration—matters. It connects you with a value, principle, or ideal that is bigger than you are. That lights you up and infuses your work with meaning. But it takes more than serving...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Leverage
You've seen the claims. If only you will invest in this new business, or that personal development program, or another life makeover, you can gain amazing happiness, wealth, and a great love life. It's called leverage, and it's a nice idea. But does it work? Well, yes...
I wonder, wonder, wonder who wrote the book of success
Most of us spend a fair amount of time questioning ourselves, our choices, our capacities, and our decisions. That's okay. It might as well be, given that we do it, right? We can experience this questioning as self-doubt of the feels-pretty-crummy kind or as the kind...
How to manage for happiness when your thing doesn’t fly
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. ~ Albert Schweitzer What's going on when you put your work out there and you don't get the response you'd hoped for? When your thing doesn't fly? I've been thinking about this because recently one...
What eternal happiness can teach us about business
Years ago (38, but who's counting?) my husband-to-be asked me what I thought the meaning of life was. I replied immediately and somewhat to my own surprise, "eternal happiness." At first I thought my answer was somewhat frivolous. But when I mused about the qualities...
How to Get Prospective Clients to Value Your Work When Money Is Tight
Illustration: istockphoto.com Why do some businesses survive in tough economic times while others fail? One explanation is that people always necessities, like groceries, but not luxuries, like diamond rings or massage. But that isn't necessarily the case. Still, if...
Don’t think of a blue elephant: What’s negative about positive thinking
Okay, I dare you. Don't think of a blue elephant. Pretty near impossible, no? And that's what's wrong with seeking success or any form of happiness by trying replace negative thinking and with positive thinking. Thoughts don't obey. I'm not saying you have to be the...