Do You Know How Much Your Dreams Will Cost You?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke. Have you ever dismissed a dream out of hand because you knew it was going to cost too much? I’ve just finished a Masters degree in Creative Writing. My college offers a PhD program – which I didn’t even bother looking into. Sure, I love [...]

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This You

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to listen to this short recording.] I recorded this last week as I was thinking about the ways we hide ourselves away. I hope you enjoy it. I’ve included the text below in case you want to read it rather [...]

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How To Get Out Of Your Business Comfort Zone

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Tara Mohr of Wise Living. Sometimes, you’re running your business, things are going good, and then, all of a sudden, you wake up and realize that you’ve gotten into a comfort zone. If you’ve been there, it’s not just you… When I launched my business last year, [...]

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When Will You Let Go?

It’s sometimes hard to let go of what you’ve built, but not letting it go keeps it from becoming what it might. We build relationships around who we were in one slice of time, but if we don’t make room for growth and change, then we can’t experience the richness of relationship that celebrates who [...]

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Smile at Your Unfinished List

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Jonathan Mead from Illuminated Mind. We have a tendency to look at what’s not done and wish we could have done more. We’re used to looking at our lists or projects, seeing all the uncompleted things and being overwhelmed or disappointed. Even on full-power, total ass-kicking days, [...]

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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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How To Recover From 10 Types of Demotivation

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub. Motivation is central to creativity, productivity and happiness. Motivation is what causes us to act, and when we act, we create movement, growth and change, we feel involved, masterful and significant, we feel powerful through experiencing how we [...]

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We’re Doing Another Lift Off – Are You In?

It’s been in the works for a while now, but it’s finally time to share that Pam and I are doing another Lift Off event on August 5-8th, 2010 here in Portland. Since we already have so much information on the Lift Off event page, I’ll not cover much of the ground that’s already there. [...]

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Harness Your Emotional Sweetspot

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. Many people think that they can just jump in and work on a project whenever they want to. They think they’ll just do a little planning and get started, but then something weird happens. They get an important call or email [...]

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