I posted Monday's entry (8/25) from the San Diego airport while waiting for my return flight to JFK. The draft, written a week or two earlier, was ready to go. Until I left for my Golden Door retreat, it accurately reflected my mid-August doldrums. It was amusing...
Lest you think that every day in this entrepreneur's life is bliss-filled and stress free, let me set the record straight. In the dog days of summer I have days that would drive many to drink, shop, abandon ship or nap. My phone stops ringing. A big prospect I'm...
By the time this gets posted I'll have been at The Golden Door in Escondido, CA for the first of my seven day stay. I know I'll have lots to report about it when I return, but looking forward to it is almost as satisfying. For years extreme self-care has been a...
I had the pleasure last week of being invited to an authors' lunch and pool party at my friend and colleague's home in Greenwich. I've been declining most lunch invitations as they break up my work day. But I rationalized that this was work-related. Sheri is an...
Driving into downtown Westport I passed two antique stores in a row on the Saugatuck River. "Hmmm," I thought "they must know their market and can be located where there's not much parking." Antiques stores don't require the volume of spaces, say, that Costco...
Here's why I love blogging! When I posted the piece about getting one's product into O magazine--and how it can unexpectedly temporarily overwhelm a business--my intention was simply to report what I noticed. The incident stood out for me because I felt a kinship...
I could have written the following blog (I flatter myself...) word for word, but I didn't. It was written by my daughter Lindsey who is thriving in her entrepreneurial business as an author, speaker and training consultant specializing in career development for...
I had the privilege of hearing David Briscoe speak at the Kushi Institute Summer Conference on macrobiotics last week. I didn't know when I walked into his classroom how coaching and macrobiotics might relate to each other. (Had I known, I would have taken the...
I received a gracious tweak from a colleague that I wanted to share. She'd noticed a misspelled word on my website and wanted to call it to my attention. Here's how she put it: "Just wanted you to know, as I am sure you're a perfectionist, that your Canyon Ranch...
Back in the dark ages, 2002, when technology was forcing us digital immigrants to really get on board, I read a piece in the Currents section of the New York Times by David Pogue that made me laugh out loud. It was about using your computer to create digital...
...and my chiropractor, my insurance agent and a business consultant with whom I'd worked many years ago. These businesses were smart sending an off-season mailing to get their customer's attention. It works. I'll definitely go into my local Chico's to redeem the...
During my coaching training, and when I work with my clients, I often use a couple of tools I learned: Future Self and Life Purpose. Here's a dramatically abbreviated overview: In defining one's Future Self you participate in a visualization that allows you to...
When I wrote my book, Soul Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur in 2001, I had a sense of what it meant to be a lifestyle entrepreneur. But not a definition that rolled off my tongue. I talked about the bottom line being more than simply a dollar...
Ryan Doran, reporter for the Fairfield County Business Journal, wrote a wonderful article about my upcoming retreat. It featured on the front page of this week's edition. Click the link above to read the entire piece. Thank you,...
When my caller ID showed the message US News World Report you can be sure I picked up the line! How exciting to be interviewed by such an eminent publication. My main question was, "How did you find me?" but I graciously delayed asking until the interview was...
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