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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I was raised in the religion called “Self-Employment.” As a child, I remember many a summer evening, lounging on the floor of my uncle Walter’s house in Bedford, Indiana, listening to my dad and Walter and Uncle Pryce talk business. No. Not talk, pontificate. Extol. Preach. The theme was always the same: be in business [...]

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Wowza – retreats are needed – that’s what I got from your responses to my Big Virtual Retreat Contest. It is a holy need. Sometimes in a “holy crap! I need a break” or in a “I’m full of holes, I’m ready for mending” or in a celebration of wholeness kind of way. All holy. [...]

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I’ve been reading Linchpin, Seth Godin’s new book, (pubs. January 26th) and you can see by my liberal use of little plastic flags, I’m finding a lot to mull over. I even woke up this morning with one of the little plastic buggers in my hair. What I’m loving about Seth’s book he has taken [...]

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