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.
Is It Time to Be Disappointing?
We're used to thinking of disappointing others as a bad thing. But is it always?
Does your stuff have to keep you from getting clients?
Stuff. Emotional goop. Limiting beliefs. Destructive habits and patterns. We all have stuff. And when you work for yourself, your stuff can seem like a big problem. But it's not, really.
How to Be Focused
Focus. Momentum. Stick-to-it-iveness. All necessary traits of the Accidental Entrepreneur who plans to pay the bills with the fruit of his or her labor. But what do you do when you don't have the oomph and "just do it" is more likely to send you into hiding than into...
The Co-Dependent Entrepreneur: Why Self-Employment Feels Hard
The response to last week's video was incredible. So much support. So much connection. And a smattering of co-dependence. When a lightning bolt struck me this morning, I realized I just had to talk about it. So I did, for about 6 minutes. And at the end, I'll spend...
Content Is King, but Connection Rules
To spare my aching wrist, today's blog entry/ezine is a 6-minute video about why connecting with people is more important, by far, than marketing or even delivering value. Things to know before watching: -- I'm not wearing makeup. -- I'm having a bad-ish hair day. --...
Who can you trust? Why the hardest trust to earn is your own
Trust can be a problem for accidental entrepreneurs, have you noticed? We may worry about whether a bookkeeper is honest, a website designer competent, or a client happy. Many of us also worry about how we come across. What does the bookkeeper think about how we spend...
Fear and self-loathing in the entrepreneurial trenches
From a post to my mastermind buddies this morning, slightly edited for family audiences. I am a bit blue and harried today. Two customers are being a pain. (Take that, inner censor. I'm modeling authenticity not spiritual correctness just this minute.) My wrist hurts;...
I’m Not Cinderella: The Split in the Soul of the Accidental Entrepreneur
Photo credit: Anton Gvozdikov from istockphoto.com Yesterday millions of people across the country and around the world were galvanized by Obama's inaugural address. I was one of them. Today I awoke to the sniping of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters. Before I opened my...
Confessions of a Moody Marketer or Self Employment for Aspiring Grown Ups
Image credit: Coiled, barbed wire. j_ezlo via istockphoto Moods, what to do about them, and how they relate to both creativity and self-employment came up recently in Shaboom County. That brought to mind an article from the January 20, 2004, issue of my e-zine. Here...