Posts tagged Personal Skills

What Help Could You Use?

What Help Could You Use?

  Help! Originally uploaded by Dimitri N. Did you write down what you do well? Are you clear on it? What if you could spend all your time working on your strengths in your business? Wouldn’t that catapult your business into the stratosphere? You bet. Everyone Likes Doing Different Work Take a look around your […]

Passion

Passion

live with passion. Originally uploaded by It’s Holly For instance, I am passionate about helping people make their small businesses work for them, not the other way around. I do that by providing bookkeeping services and therefore good data. This is my paid gig. I also organize events, write in this blog and read voraciously. […]

Dark Side of the Lens Life Philosophy

Dark Side of the Lens Life Philosophy

This is why I follow twitter.  Simon Mainwaring posted this video.  Otherwise I would never have come across it. The video images themselves are stunning and the story tells of a great philosophy towards life.  Here are a couple of quotes that really spoke to me: “I never set out to become anything in particular […]

Seth Godin

Seth Godin

Here’s why my life is very different than it would have been without Seth Godin . Seth has done 2 big things for me.  The first is to start Triiibes, giving like-minded people a forum to connect .  Second, he inspires us with stories and by giving us a shared language to talk about what […]

Get it out the Door

Get it out the Door

Ship Deliver Complete Cash won’t flow until you do the work. This week, focus on completing jobs and getting paid for them.

Turning on the Cash Faucet

Turning on the Cash Faucet

In our pixelated workshop we learned that money is a representation of value.  Money, in and of itself, does not give you anything.  You can trade it for things you want. Getting more money is only one way of getting things.  Other ways are: Not needing them Trading Making or doing it yourself Not Needing […]

Aside – Books and the way they colour...

Aside – Books and the way they colour your day

I’m reading a novel, April Witch, by Swedish author, Majgull Axelsson.  It is a beautifully written, dark and awful story of mothers who hurt their daughters and what happens to those daughters when they grow up. One of the worst things a mother can do is make her daughter feel unworthy and I found myself […]

Uncover 4 More Hours: A Pixelated Wor...

Uncover 4 More Hours: A Pixelated Workshop

I’m going to start adding a Pixelated Workshop every month based on Mitch Joel’s Pixelated Conference.  This is a compilation of information gleaned from the web around our theme. Our theme for February is Uncover 4 More Hours.  It’s a take-off on the 4 hour work week by Timothy Ferris.  I love this book and […]

Everything I learned about Delegating...

Everything I learned about Delegating I learned from my Kids

If you can motivate your kids, without having that ‘You’re Fired’ card, you can motivate anyone.  If you can stand your ground as they give you that look while you point to their messy room, you can motivate anyone.  If you can get your kids to do what they say now and not sometime next […]

Time Resources

Time Resources

Several years ago I realized I had more on my plate than I could possibly accomplish.  I wrote down a list of everything I was doing with the intention of crossing a bunch off.  The only thing I wanted to ditch was the housework; but given my lack of enthusiasm for that, it only saved […]