Feb 18, 2014 | Business and Entrepreneurship
There are appropriate times to hustle in your business. Sometimes you’re hustling for a year or two on the side, creating your escape route and freedom business to jump ship from your corporate job. Sometimes you stay up late and hustle the night before a course...
Feb 11, 2014 | Business and Entrepreneurship
I have a confession. Sometimes–more nearly like every time–after finishing a project, I hate it. My writing class? Sucks, obviously. Last week’s essay? Good God, that could have been better. All those open and empty drafts waiting to be finished? Seriously,...
Feb 7, 2014 | Writing Practice
“Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our life.” — Brene Brown Writing is an act of bravery. Each year, when I teach our writing workshops, I get to work with a small group of twenty-some writers, thinkers, and...
Jan 28, 2014 | How People Work
Your life is a set of made-up habits. You learned how to behave by doing something, and then repeating it hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands of times until it became normal for you. When talking to one of my yoga instructors the other day, he said: “Want to...
Jan 20, 2014 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Money + Finances
When I was four weeks old, my mother and father took our then-family-of-four from Germany to Idaho Falls, little baby and tiny toddler in tow. We were standing around in the living room, as my mother recalls (to be be fair, I can’t recall and I certainly wasn’t...
Jan 10, 2014 | Announcements
Heads up: today is the LAST DAY to register for the Writing Workshop. It is also the LAST DAY to save $200 by registering for both the Writing Workshop AND the Content Strategy course. Join us now. Still need a reason? Here are a few: 10 reasons to sign up for the...
Jan 7, 2014 | Annual Review
I want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you for listening, For inspiring me, for delighting me, For telling me your stories. Thank you for caring, For being, for questioning, for pushing Me, for pushing YOU, For all of the beautiful work you do, Even when it’s...
Jan 6, 2014 | Crafting Your Career
“Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re bad at writing and don’t like to do it, you’ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated.” -Paul Graham Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine, wrote that “the new...
Jan 3, 2014 | Announcements
I have a confession to make. I signed up for three courses this January, and I’ve got so many notebooks and pens and pencils out that I’m doing geeky little dances around my apartment, although my apartment keeps getting messier and messier. Magazines,...
Dec 31, 2013 | Annual Review
It’s here. The world spun around the sun again, and we’re buried in the darkness of winter. Sun rises late, lazy, making my head ache in the morning while rising. We look back. We reflect on the year past, we look at the year ahead, we wonder how so much...
