I was hanging with another self-employed coach/ writer / speaker friend this past week and we were both having a horrible no-good very bad day. You know, one of those days in which you wonder, “What is it I do?” And you bemoan not becoming a nuclear physicist because at least they know how to [...]

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One thing I hear almost daily from clients and writers who come to Taos is “Everything I want to say has been said.” Yes, it probably has. What if that doesn’t matter? What if it isn’t about being unique but about being of service? “I’m all about service!” you may say. “Service is me!” We [...]

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Us creative types often feel like misfits, outsiders, weirdos. Our whole entire lives. Because we feel this way, we might decide that unless we do something with our misfitness – preferably something brilliant – all of our suffering and not fitting in has been for naught. There is something so beautiful about this story – [...]

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Before you can have a name for your thing, you have to bite through and get to its essence. But if you believe the story that you need a platform or a logo or a brand or a tag line or even a way to talk about what you biting through to, you won’t bite. [...]

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