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.
Create a Personal Safety Zone: Cultivating Presence to Attract Clients that Fit Just Right
Technical difficulties (read: operator error) delayed video production this week, and that's just as well. I've decided to share an audio recording of the key teaching points of Part 1 of The Goldilocks Strategy for Getting Clients that Fit Just Right. Click on the...
Why I Don’t (Seem to) Care About Mistakes
I've always made mistakes. Until a few years ago, I did everything I could to avoid them. When I did make a mistake, I agonized over it. I would often stop doing what I was doing or abandon a project out of shame and worry. One day I found myself emailing another...
Make a Good Plan (It’s not what you think)
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." Sometimes planning seems to take up way too much time. Besides, how can you plan when you don't know what's going to happen? Here's the secret to plans that work.
How to Get Organized Without Dowsing Your Creative Fire
If you have never struggled with getting organized, de-cluttering, setting priorities, and staying focused, you can skip this article. But if the very idea of getting organized makes you queasy, if you agonize over the trade off between creativity and order, read on....
It’s All Connected: Why Elevator Speeches Are Icky
What is the ickiest thing you can do when you meet a prospective client or referral source? Hint: It's something you don't want to do, but do anyway, because the marketing experts say you're supposed to. Yup. It's giving an elevator speech. Ickiness in Action It's...
Self Employment Overhead: It’s not what you think.
Ah, the thrills and chills of overhead. Having it somehow legitimizes one's business endeavor. Paying for it can be scary. But there's an even more important kind of overhead that doesn't cost a dime.
In Praise of Small Ponds: Why Being Picky Is Good for Business
Who wouldn't love to work exclusively with clients that fit "just right"? But in a down economy, who can afford to be picky? You can. In fact, you can't afford not to be. In any economic situation, the quickest way for a tiny business to fail is to: Be as general as...
Self Employment, Angels, and Self Esteem
Lordie! Sometimes the hardest thing about being self-employed is hanging out with yourself. Or, more precisely, with the voices of angels. (You know, the good one and the bad one that sit on your shoulders?)
Psst! Your Body Would Like a Word with You: How Tuning Into Your Body Can Help Your Biz
Okay, be honest. On a scale of 1-10, where 1 means "not at all" and 10 means "totally," how tuned in to your body are you at this moment? It's easy to ignore the body, especially when we plug into computers and other technology. Even in the gym, we may pay more...