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I've been doing a lot of thinking about what it means to live in a Consumer Society. Many studies in Positive Psychology show that being affluent doesn't actually make most people happier. And whether you think you are or not, you are probably affluent if you live in the developed world.
Read MoreEarlier in the month I had the pleasure of taking an Improv for Business class with my friend and colleague, Gina Trimarco Cligrow of Gina and Co. Gina is from Chicago and began doing improv at Second City at the age of 19. She used what she learned in improv class and from her entrepreneurial dad to become a successful marketer and business manager. Now she's using those skills to help other entrepreneurs become better at sales conversations and marketing through improvisational comedy.
Read MoreLast issue I wrote about the perils of over giving in your business and how to make a mind shift to taking yourself and your business seriously and getting paid good money for the value you deliver Today I want to talk about the shadow side of always over giving. This is a subject that I've looked at increasingly for years now as it became apparent to me that I am - gasp! - co-dependent.
Read MoreRecently I spoke to a group of women business owners. In the discussion after my talk, one woman said that she constantly gives away too much and she’s paying for it with her health. She's in her early 40s and has constant back pain. She's given up a part of the business she loves - being a make up artist - because she can't stand on her feet for long any more.
Read MoreWhile working with a client recently, I was struck with a key reason that we keep ourselves stuck - we freak ourselves out about success! My client, whom I'll call Angela (not her real name), realized that she was using chaos to keep from taking action in her business. "Without clutter and confusion, I won't have any excuses. I'd have to get 'out there' in a big way," she said.
Read MoreSuzanne Evans has a larger than life presence. She's loud, she's direct, she cusses, she's brilliant, she's committed, and she changes lives and businesses. She just spent 3.5 days on the stage at Be the Change teaching, training, and entertaining over 900 participants how to transform their businesses to make more money.
Read MoreI was talking with a prospective client the other day. I'll call her Alice (not her real name). I've known her for years, and we were talking because she is at a new beginning in her business. She's a brilliant businesswoman and has been quite successful in the past. Because of family events, she had to step out of her business for a while and now is ready to get back to work. As we got into our conversation, Alice revealed her main concern was that "everything has changed." Many of her contacts have been down-sized, right-sized, or “put out to pasture”, and her former network is no longer in a position to hire her for consulting work.. Because of the advent of Linked In and other social media outlets, this very bright and capable woman was thinking she didn't know how to get traction to get new work.
Read MoreWe each experience challenges to focusing in this world of Facebook and Twitter, bombardment by ads and marketing messages, and the inevitable rabbit hole of following links on a website. Like Alice in Wonderland, we wind up some place totally unexpected and wonder how in the world we got here! So we know that focus is a challenge. But I wonder whether concentration is an even greater challenge.
Read MoreThis is a season of desiring and dreaming. Children and adults alike hope for material goods and emotional happiness.And sometimes we forget to have.
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