PART 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here: 20 personal money perspectives & practices that took me most of my adult life to clarify and got me to a place of grooving prosperity 1. The question I get asked the most in terms of monetization and business priorities is about what to focus on first.
I work with a lot of serious entrepreneurs. By “serious” I mean devoted, aware, hungry, keen. At conferences and party do’s, I come in to contact with plenty of hobby-preneurs, freshling-preneurs, just-getting-on-the-path-preneurs. I adore them one and I adore them all. But this takes the wind right out of my strategic cheerleader sails: I ask:
I walked on hot coals once – barefoot. Across a bed of white hot embers about twenty feet long. When you walk off the fiery path you step into a puddle of water and you can hear your feet sizzle and see steam rise. And lo’, thanks to mind over matter, I didn’t even blister.
I announced via Twitter and Facebook last week that my Fire Starter Session fee was moving to $500 (from $300.) And I also mentioned it in my post that went out late last night. And then… Deluge. Chuck wagon outta control. Four-alarm fire. Standing room only. I’ve been wrestling with how to handle the gorgeous
The song of an entrepreneur… Secretly, I’m afraid we won’t raise the money. But it’s okay. I can plow through that fear. We’ll raise the money, and everything will be okay. We’ll raise the money and stand the business up. We’ll have to hit our targets, get the customers in the door, run hard with
The last time I did mushrooms, I was on my honeymoon. They were a wedding gift. (We have the best friends.) And the last time I dropped acid I was wearing shoulder pads and listening to The Flock of Seagulls. It’s been a while. But since then, I’ve learned to alter my state, unassisted, and
Multi-disciplinary, general studies, political correctness, easy to get along with, in moderation, “nice”…these are all ways that we polish off our edges to be socially acceptable and useful – even though it’s your edges that give you traction and make you interesting. Your “edge” – where the genuine You meets external reality, is where your
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments…you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way. – Chekhov
How are things? Good. Yeah, good. Fine. Things are fine. Let me ask that question again: How are things? Fabulous. It all feels like an adventure right now. I have synchronicities piling up everywhere. I’ve got all the money I need, in fact, it’s flowing good n’ steady. My skin is glowing. Most nights we
Ever since I discovered Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth I’ve been smitten with his notions for change and possibility. His mind is like a kaleidoscope of solutions and problems and questions. This promo for the 2010 Denver Biennial of the Americas is a typically elegant and impassioned call to action. I think I need
