by Molly Gordon | Jul 23, 2012 | Creativity, Life purpose, Meaning, Money, Resources, Self care, Success, Uncategorized
Opposition is an essential shaper of the creative process, closing off some choices and pointing in new, sometimes completely unfamiliar and unexplored directions. Think of it as putting banks on a river. Without those banks, a river’s flow loses force. Add banks and...
by Molly Gordon | Jul 16, 2012 | Confidence, Creativity, Meaning, Spirit, Success, Uncategorized
There’s nothing quite like self-employment to bring up fear. There are plenty of things to be afraid of. Will anyone hire you? What if they think you charge too much? Are you really good enough at what you do? What if you fail? And will you be attacked if you succeed?...
by Molly Gordon | Jul 9, 2012 | Creativity, Goal Setting, Life purpose, Meaning, Productivity
From May 6, 2002 I love metrics, the process of choosing what and how to measure so that I can track how my business is doing. I haven’t always liked tracking. For me, statistical measures have often triggered perfectionism, competitiveness, and fear. However,...
by Molly Gordon | Jul 9, 2012 | Creativity, Goal Setting, Meaning, Personal, Self care, Uncategorized
From July 11, 1999 Photo by trapper keeper via Flickr Summer finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest on July 5th and, as readers of last week’s New Leaf* know, I took advantage of it to cope with the overachiever gremlins. I took them out into the garden and forced...
by Molly Gordon | Jul 9, 2012 | Creativity, Life purpose, Personal, Uncategorized
Over the next few weeks I’ll be reprinting some oldies but goodies from as far back as 1999. Re-reading this earlier work has reminded me of two things: there is nothing new under the sun and every thought is fresh when we open our hearts. The church says: The...
by Molly Gordon | Jul 2, 2012 | Ambition, Creativity, Life purpose, Meaning, Self care, Service, Spirit, Success, Uncategorized, Vision
Last week I wrote about the importance of not-knowing, of hanging out in the mysterious and disorienting space between the person you have been and the person you are becoming. At times like that it’s essential to wake up to purpose, and I don’t mean the kind of life...
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