by Molly Gordon | Oct 8, 2012 | Authenticity, Community, Creativity, Emotional intelligence, Life purpose, Meaning, Mindfulness, Personal, Productivity, Self care, Self-employment, Serving others, Small business, Success, Uncategorized, Vision
When Miles and I moved into our home in 2000, we had a bare front yard. He created a lovely landscape design (birches, a dry creek bed, lovely ground covers), but we still needed a boundary between us and the street. At first Miles proposed a solid fence. I...
by Molly Gordon | Mar 25, 2012 | Emotional intelligence, Marketing, Money, Self-employment, Selling, Serving others, Small business, Success, Uncategorized
A few years back, when I began sending newsletter subscribers occasional messages offering a class, book, or program, a few readers complained. One asked if it were possible to receive the newsletters but not the offers. As I read that, my heart sped up, the bubble...
by Molly Gordon | Dec 11, 2011 | Community, Getting clients, Marketing, Money, Self-employment, Selling, Service, Serving others, Small business, Success, Uncategorized
Marketer and blogger Seth Godin defines a tribe as “a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.” In the case of your tribe of just-right clients, you are the leader, responsible for giving them care and...
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...
by Molly Gordon | Mar 5, 2010 | Ambition, Community, Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Goal Setting, Life purpose, Self care, Service, Serving others, Success
It’s pretty hard to succeed at self-employment without confidence. But every once in a while, confidence takes a vacation. There are any number of things that can send confidence running for the beach. You could be going along nicely, doing good work and...
by Molly Gordon | Feb 8, 2010 | Confidence, Emotional intelligence, Getting clients, Marketing, Self-employment, Selling, Serving others, Small business, Success
If you’ve been going round in circles trying to figure out how to get more clients, I have good news for you. If you concentrate on getting to know one–only one–just-right client really well, you can use that to get many more clients. Psst. The...
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