by Molly Gordon | Jul 25, 2012 | Community, Getting clients, Marketing, Self-employment, Selling, Service, Small business, Success, Uncategorized
Selling and sales can be loaded words when you do what you do for the love of it–but you still need to make a living. But selling can actually create a community around your business, and a core community changes everything.
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 23, 2012 | Life purpose, Marketing, Money, Resources, Service, Spirit, Success, Uncategorized
What if you could help fund a micro-business that had the potential to bring prosperity to an entire community? You can do that by making micro-loans. Through Kiva you can lend as little as $25 to tiny businesses and help create opportunity around the world. And now,...
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, 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...
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