Your struggle with branding yourself or your business comes from two conflicting fears: You don’t know who you are; You don’t want to ruin what you already did/created/have This places you at the crossroads between ignorance and fear. A lousy place to be (and we’ve all been there). As a result, you are hesitant to put a…
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Stop Searching for Your Passion (Do This Instead)
READ MORE: Stop Searching for Your Passion (Do This Instead)There’s tremendous pressure to “find your passion” lately. Too much pressure, if you ask me. It’s also misleading: If I tell you to “find your passion,” we must presume that it’s been lost, like a set of keys or that coupon for a free burrito at Chipotle. Not only is it lost, it’s now a…
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3 Rules of Thought Leadership (by Someone Smarter Than Me)
READ MORE: 3 Rules of Thought Leadership (by Someone Smarter Than Me)Daniel DiGriz is so smart that after a few minutes of listening to him, you can actually feel yourself getting smarter. Now that is a gift. (Let’s hope it worked.) The founder of Madpipe, author of All Marketing Is Dead, and self-titled “digital ecologist” (a term he’s had trademarked) has lots of titles, and believes everyone should have a bunch,…
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Make Uncertainty Your Friend: Meet Farnoosh Torabi, Award-winning Financial Strategist
READ MORE: Make Uncertainty Your Friend: Meet Farnoosh Torabi, Award-winning Financial StrategistWhen Farnoosh Torabi got laid off from her job as a journalist at TheStreet.com, it was in many ways the day her real career began. Instead of going the safe route and finding another job, Farnoosh ran with her big idea—and it changed the course of her career. Today, Farnoosh is an award winning financial…
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How to Know If You’re Addicted to Advice
READ MORE: How to Know If You’re Addicted to AdviceA colleague of mine, Michelle, was launching her own life coaching business and wanted advice. So I spent some time on the phone with her one quiet Friday afternoon and told her all the things I thought she needed to do to make her offerings more clear, unique, and benefit-oriented. I went through her website,…
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Passion is Not a Business Plan: Why Mission Trumps It, Every Time
READ MORE: Passion is Not a Business Plan: Why Mission Trumps It, Every TimeYou’re passionate about what you do. But is anyone else? I mean really—are they? Everyone loves to talk about how pivotal passion is: find your passion, live your passion. But the fact is, passion itself is not a business plan, nor an imperative for anyone else. Your job is to make me care about a thing,…
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You Don’t Need Power Tools to Be a Feminist
READ MORE: You Don’t Need Power Tools to Be a FeministI know what I’m good at. I know what I want to do. And I know what I have zero interest in doing for myself: filing my own taxes, perfecting homemade hollandaise sauce, putting up my own preserves, or hanging cupboards. I don’t want to spend a second longer in a Home Depot than I…
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Why Online Dating Is So Much Better Now (Kind of)
READ MORE: Why Online Dating Is So Much Better Now (Kind of)I’ve recently re-entered the online dating pool, and surprise surprise, it’s just as much a hot mess as it was last time I was here. The bare torsos, the cringeworthy cliches, the fevered search for the next quick hookup. But something has changed. The process has gone from a desktop portal of long-winded applications and essay…
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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Overcome Busyness with Carson Tate, founder of Work Simply
READ MORE: Work Smarter, Not Harder: Overcome Busyness with Carson Tate, founder of Work SimplyCarson Tate was working in sales when she realized there was a direct correlation between how organized she was and how much revenue she brought in. When her colleagues adopted her system and started earning more, she knew she was onto something. Carson saw that as her cue: She left her full-time job and launched her…
