Are Your Dreams Getting in the Way of Your Goals?

You probably know that if you write down your goals you are 1000 times more likely to reach them than if you don’t.  This makes sense to me.  I imagine that most people who have no written goals have no identifiable goals at all.  Which makes it decidedly harder to meet any goals.
I can’t [...]

Personal Development: Exercise Your Mind for Success

My 5-year-old was balancing on one foot on the edge of the bed frame last night.  She fell off and immediately said, “watch, I’ll do it better next time.” (And she did).
Being the ever-conscious parent that I am, I tried to seize the moment for a “life lesson.”  I told her that she was right, [...]

Be Careful About What You Assume in Your Home Business

I missed my favorite class at the gym last week because I had a meeting.  When I returned to class this week, people asked me where I’d gone and assumed I’d been on vacation.  Unfortunately, it was far from vacation, but it was clear why they’d made this assumption.  I never miss class, and I [...]

Too Lazy for Home Business Success?

Most of us resist change, consciously or not.  We are comfortable in the predictability of our routine, even as we realize our lives are far from the “perfect” we imagine.
This “comfort zone” that we float through life in is seriously challenged by our desire for the time and financial freedom a successful home business [...]

Work From Home and Simplify Your Life

Remember when you first started your work from home journey?  You were likely attracted by the promise that making money online was easy.  And the pictures of the house you could buy, the cars you could drive, and the vacations you could take just a few months into your work from home business.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t [...]

Personal Growth: If You Believe, You Can Achieve

I love the Napolean Hill quote, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”   Sounds easy.  Yet one of the biggest reasons people can’t change their lives is simply that they don’t believe they can.
I got an email from an internet marketer the other day promoting a training for people [...]

Working at Home: Are You Too Busy to Succeed?

My first inclination is to say that the number one reason people don’t succeed in working at home is that they just don’t have time to build a successful business.  But really, this isn’t the reason people don’t succeed, it’s the excuse people have when they give up.
Time was always my number one excuse as [...]

Self Improvement: Celebrate Your Freedom Now

I confess that I had so much to do and so much fun over the holiday weekend that I just got to reading my emails from the weekend. And naturally, every internet marketer whose list I’m on had an Independence Day email for me.
Most of them had the typical “find your financial [...]

Mindfulness: Becoming Happier and Healthier

What exactly does mindfulness mean? To be mindful is to be present in the moment without passing judgment on the moment. Just being. Mindfulness has its roots in Zen Buddhism. So who better than Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh to define mindfulness for us:

One of my favorite quotes is [...]

Best Personal Growth Practices: Mindfulness v. Multi-Tasking

For most of us, multi-tasking is not at all an option. Entrepreneurs, it seems to me, are born multi-taskers. Not only do we accept it as a part of life, we demand it.
I’m incapable of sitting on the couch and watching tv. It may occupy my eyes, but it’s mindless. And [...]