Take Back Control of Your Business – Series
Over the past two and a half years I’ve learned a ton about developing a business.
I’ve learned how to:
> Network the “right way”
> Write in a way that attracts my desired audience
> Create happiness systems that maximize my productivity
Over the next few posts, I want to share a few of these things that I’ve learned.
The most important part of developing my business has been working with my emotional core. Too often we discount the importance of having a foundation built on happiness. A person can do great work if they bully themselves into producing results, but this is impossible to sustain.
Starting tomorrow I’m going to explore how I’ve created a small business that has allowed me to maximize my happiness. It’s a 3 part series, so stay tuned for all three installments.
3. Keep a One Sentence Journal
A small business owner who only worries about money and neglects happiness is missing the point of being an entrepreneur. We need to develop a core that allows us to always come back to our emotional center. It’s important to connect with our work in a balanced way.
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Career Renegade – Book Review
Are you working at your job and wondering why you aren’t doing what you love? Maybe your passion is surfing, finance, or knitting. Regardless of what your passion is there is always a way to make money off what you enjoy doing. That is if you can find the right angle. You just need to find a way to deliver value to people so they will pay you for your skill.
The “doing what you love” method of making money is a popular topic lately. Many people are flooding into this market. The problem is that they don’t have enough true wins or losses in their past to be considered an expert. They just talk a good game.
We must separate the fakers from the real deals. After meeting Jonathan Fields at South by South West I’m confident that he is the real deal. His book, Career Renegade, takes the reader through the steps necessary to take his/her career to the next level.
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Escape From Cubicle Nation – Book Review
You probably look at cubicle walls and wonder, who the hell designed these ugly monstrosities? But that’s not even the point. Why would any company put their valued employees in these little human pens?
Do they really care about what I think, and if they do then why don’t they ask for my opinion?
If you’ve ever worked in a cubicle, you probably have had these thoughts. The corporate world often does what is easy instead of what is right.
There have been signs of corporate culture changing in large and small companies, but it doesn’t seem to happen fast enough.
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New Media is Changing How We Feel about Education and Career
This is a guest post from Christine Gallagher of Communicate Value.
Gen Y grew up with the internet. Some of us first encountered it in high school; others of us can’t remember a time when we were ever without it.
We’re used to doing everything online. We know how to find things there—anything we care to. The physical yellow pages are an oddity. If we come across a brick and mortar store that doesn’t have a website, we’re aghast—and feel somewhat sorry for them. If we meet you, you are under 35, and you don’t have a Facebook account, we get thoroughly confused.
“But, but, I don’t…understand. You’re not ON it?”
Ok, perhaps some of this is a slight exaggeration. However, it’s not too far off. Technology is a way of life. And not just in the sense of socializing and looking up facts and figures or the closest coffee shop.
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