Those of you in the Midland/Odessa area may want to pick up a copy of a new, local magazine entitled, Good Times, The Arts and Entertainment Guide of West Texas. But it is not just limited to West Texas as there are listings of events all over the state.
Lisa and I have what we expect to be a regular column in the rag called, ‘Rubber Side Down’. In case you don’t have access to the magazine, I have included a pdf of the article here.
Let us know what you think.
This is an unusual article in the sense that it really doesn’t have anything to do with business. I didn’t start out to right an article like this, but true to the creative process, I just started writing and this is what resulted. I trust that what I wrote was the message that was supposed to be delivered, although I personally questioned it and contemplated not publishing it. Ultimately, I felt strongly that it was not my place to argue, but rather to just follow the directions I had been given. So that is exactly what I did!
This article was published in the Midland Reporter-Telegram on Sunday, December 3, 2006.
View the entire article here.
Guard Your Peace [PDF, 203KB]
Fulfillment is what we are looking for out of our businesses, not excitement. But it is easy to mistakenly confuse the two. One of the greatest character traits of an Entrepreneur is to be the calm in the storm�through the great times, but also through the tough times.
This article offers an inside perspective on a huge challenge faced by Entrepreneurs–Managing Your Emotions. It explores why fulfillment is preferential to excitement and offers some practical tips that you can implement in your business to help you keep your emotions in check and you carrying checks to the bank!
This article was published in the Midland Reporter-Telegram on September 3, 2006.
View the entire article here.
Managing Your Emotions [PDF, 27 KB]
This is a short article I wrote about WILLINGness. The article addresses the insanity of how we get in our own way by being UNwilling. You don’t have to believe something is for the better to be willing to try it. If what you are doing isn’t working for you then do something different–it doesn’t matter what it is. See also Packing Your Belief Bags, an article I wrote for the Midland Reporter-Telegram on resistance to change.
This article was published in the July/August issue of Nuestra Cultura magazine.
View the entire article here.
Ready, Willing & Able…To Change?! [PDF, 56KB]
You can pick up a copy of Nuestra Cultura magazine at Barnes & Noble, Hastings or subscribe by clicking here.
Have you ever found yourself following a �rule� and then wondering where you got that rule? �Rules� that say things like it takes money to make money, or that business and personal don�t mix?
This is the seed of thought for this article that talks about our resistance to change and that resistance being driven by our “bag of beliefs”. So often, we inadvertently limit ourselves because we are hanging on to old ideas by binding ourselves to rules, of which we have no idea where we got them or how to let go of them. This article offers a very simple look at this process and suggests a way to take inventory of the beliefs that drive your business.
This article was published in the Midland Reporter-Telegram on July 2, 2006.
View the entire article here.
Packing Your Belief Bags [PDF, 24 KB]
See also previous post Seeking Life’s Treasures.
This was the last article I wrote for the Tumbleweed and it is fairly personalized to that effect, although there are some great morsels to glean from this article. It is somewhat specific to women, as most of the readers of the Tumbleweed are women. The article walks the reader through a powerful self awareness exercise and just puts a very positive spin on balancing all of our affairs by accepting that we are always exactly where we are supposed to be. See also UNwrapping the Gift of YOU-MRT, a similar article that I wrote for the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the Tumbleweed.
UNwrapping the Gift of YOU-Tumbleweed [PDF, 27 KB]
We ALL have blind spots, including me. I do not get an immunity pill from challenges in my business just because I am an Entrepreneur Coach. This article addresses some of the insane thinking patterns we can get into as Entrepreneurs and is one of the few articles I wrote in the first person singular. It came to be borne out of frustrations with my own business and at a time when I was desperately seeking clarity and direction.
This article was published in the Midland Reporter-Telegram on April 30, 2006.
View the entire article here.
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Business: The Power of Coaching [PDF, 25 KB]
This article marrys the idea of spring cleaning with business and addresses “blueprinting” as designing your druthers, your dreams as you would have them if there were no obstables in your way.� It focuses on the journey of the process rather than the destination (see also Entrepreneur:� Not for Whiners! and UNwrapping the Gift of YOU-MRT that I wrote for the Midland Reporter-Telegram).� It also speaks to society’s programming and breaking the mold of that programming.
This article was published in the April 2006 issue of the Tumbleweed.
View the entire article here.
Blueprint Your Success [PDF, 26 KB]
This article addresses how different of an environment it is to be a business owner rather than working for someone else. Often times, new business owners will get into disappointment fairly quick because they had expectations that things would go according to plan and, of course, they never do. The article sets forth the idea that to understand getting into business will be difficult and to experience it being difficult are two very different things. See also Entrepreneur-Bad for Your Health?, a similar article I wrote for the Tumbleweed.
This article was published in the May/June 2006 issue of Nuestra Cultura magazine.
View the entire article here.
Empresario – Bad for Your Health? [PDF, 196 KB]
This article builds on the the former article I wrote on Starting a Home-Based Business in the Holiday issue of Tumbleweed and offers some practical tips to effectively operating an HBB.
This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the Tumbleweed.
View the entire article here.
More Thoughts on Starting a Home-Based Business [PDF, 25 KB]
