We all like to think we’re in control of our own destinies. We make decisions based on where we think we want to be in the future. We do what we have to do to get what we want. But sometimes life doesn’t cooperate and we find ourselves somewhere we never expected. A journalist friend [...]
The magic of referrals
The last seven months have been very educational for me. Before I got downsized, I’d been an employee for thirty years. After all that time working for someone else, you develop certain habits and attitudes that don’t really fit with the entrepreneurial mindset. One of those attitudes is “just wait…the work will come…it always does.” Another [...]
To praise or not to praise
I’ve been listening to a podcast by Chris over at the Nachos at Midnight blog. In the first half of episode 002, he talks about how good it felt when WordPress featured his blog on their front page recently. It was a real pat on the back, a much-appreciated “good on ya.” He goes on [...]
Hey, I can fly!
Do you remember those old Claude the Cat cartoons? The ones where something would scare Claude and he’d shoot up to the ceiling and hang there by his claws, clinging on for dear life, shivering so badly his teeth would clatter? That was me seven months ago. The thing that scared me was the economy [...]
