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You Won’t See Your Big Hit Ahead of Time

If you listen to the stories artists tell about their careers, you’ll often hear them admit that their hits were something they never saw coming. This cuts across artistic endeavors. I tweeted yesterday that How To Flourish: 17 Quotes on Living, Being, and Doing was going viral yet again with near 10k daily pageviews. That [...]

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You Don’t Know What You’ll Do Until You Do It

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. – Thomas Jefferson If you’ve never been in a situation that required you to be courageous, how would you know whether you’re courageous? The comic book version of Plato’s position on ethics is “to be is to do,” [...]

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Love, in 140 Characters

[This is a video post, so you might need to click through if you're reading this via email or RSS.] We had to take Angela to the hospital yesterday, but this post isn’t about that. It’s about the love, generosity, and support we got 140 characters at a time and how much we appreciate it. [...]

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The Business Lifecycle: An Overview

What business stage are you in? And, more importantly, what business stage are your customers and clients in? I’ve been working on this model for a while now in the Forge and out in the field with my clients and friends, but it’s time to share it with you. If you’ve read Martha Beck’s Finding [...]

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Launch Fatigue and How Not To Be An Infomercial

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Marissa Bracke. I’m exhausted. I spend more time trying to discern valuable, stand-alone content and content that’s pushed primarily to hoist an offer on me than I do enjoying the content. It’s as if someone coopted the watercooler for advertising space. What I’ve got is a bad [...]

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Behind The Scenes: The Home Edition

If you couldn’t tell, there have been a lot of things happening for us this month. I held off on writing a bonfire this month until I knew something more definitive, but it’s the 24th today and things are still a bit uncertain. (Lesson learned: share where you actually are doing the bonfire and update [...]

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What Would You Keep If You Had To Pay To Keep It?

I’m going to take a cue from Ken and approach the horse… Angela and I are in the middle of doing a ton of paperwork and planning for our impending move to Portland. One of the things we’re currently shuffling is figuring out what we’re going to take with us and what we’re going to [...]

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4 Questions To Ask Yourself Every Day

Toward the end of last year, Angela and I had started to get out of sync with each other. It’s not that we were fighting or even spatting, but rather that things were moving so quickly that we weren’t communicating in a way that was effective given the new pace of our lives. We went [...]

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Aligning Strategy and Compassion

Today’s post is a conversation I wish someone would’ve had with me years ago before I started my entrepreneurial journey. I may not have been able to understand it then, but it would have been nice to at least have it on the board. I’m sharing it with you so that it is something you [...]

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