by Molly Gordon | Feb 26, 2012 | Creativity, Success
This week’s article is by my long-time friend and colleague, Beth Hand. Beth works with large organizations in change management, strategic planning and leadership development. Her most recent newsletter, though, has as much bearing on the one-person business as...
by Molly Gordon | Feb 19, 2012 | Creativity, Marketing, Selling, Success
When you work for yourself, it’s easy to feel vulnerable. And if you resist it, vulnerability can interfere with your ability to focus. It can sap your confidence. And it can keep you from receiving support. In short, it can play havoc with your ability to do...
by Molly Gordon | Jan 22, 2012 | Ambition, Creativity, Getting clients, Productivity, Time
There’s a basket in my office where I put things I’m not quite ready to deal with or that I plan to use in the near future. I toss in notes from a teleclass, like the one Susan Harrow did for us last fall, intending to enter them into Evernote. I store...
by Molly Gordon | Jan 12, 2012 | Ambition, Creativity
Seth Godin writes that artists do their work, not in safe places, but out on a limb. I agree. And artists need to bring that same courage–and creativity–to promoting and selling their work. Because business is not alien to art, it’s...
by Molly Gordon | Jan 2, 2012 | Creativity, Emotional intelligence, Goal Setting, Mindfulness, Money, Self-employment, Small business, Success, Vision
Risk is woven into the fabric of self-employment. Every choice you face entails a measure of risk. How will you look? How will you feel? Will others approve? Will you gain or lose money? Will you have more or less quality time? For the self-employed, risk is a...
by Molly Gordon | Dec 4, 2011 | Ambition, Creativity, Getting clients, Life purpose, Marketing, Meaning, Money, Self-employment, Selling, Serving others, Small business, Success, Uncategorized
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...
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