Archive for the 'Career and Your Calling' Category

60-Day Challenge Wk 9: Intuition Has Led Me Where I Can’t Come Back

This entry is part 6 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive EntrepreneurshipHowdy folks!  It was weird not to blog for a whole month — and once I turned off the switch, it’s been hard to turn it back on. Much has happened in March.
Recap of My Month without Blogging
1st week: worked on one [...]

60-Day Challenge Wk 4: Shedding More Than What I Imagined

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship60 Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneur
Goal: To create and execute a new business vision by following my intuition in 60 days.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.
The week 4 of this challenge was even more cathartic than the previous weeks.
It’s because [...]

60-Day Challenge Wk 3: Freedom to Abandon Plans

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship60 Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneur
Goal: To create and execute a new business vision by following my intuition in 60 days.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.
It seems to me like each week I uncover a new twist.  Plans and ideas [...]

Melindaville’s Rise from Ashes: Overcoming Drug Addiction, Depression and Abuse

By now, you probably know what really turns me on.  In the world of Everything Has Been Said Before (particularly among personal development/self improvement circles), what really engages me and inspires me is reading personal stories — because there’s really no such thing as an ordinary life.  Everybody’s life experience is unique, and it has [...]

This Is What Happens When You Do What You Love

Let me tell you about my friend Ken.
Ken was an IT professional, and had a Microsoft certification.  He worked in the industry for years.
But he also knew that it wasn’t his passion — he liked computers and he liked helping people, but it wasn’t the technology that really motivated and energized him.  He had no [...]

60-Day Challenge Wk2: Shopping for Success

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship60 Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneur
Goal: To create and execute a new business vision by following my intuition in 60 days.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.
This week, I rented a U-Haul and moved into my new office/studio. Also, I took [...]

The Power of Peer-Mentoring

Mentoring/coaching doesn’t just happen when you pay someone who’s more experienced than you.  It can also happen among your very peers — and such a partnership can have bond and strength that few other relationships can.  Let me tell you about my peer-mentoring partner, and invite you to join me in forming a new peer-mentoring [...]

Self Actualization: Filling a Hole That’s Shaped Like You

This is a life story of my mother.  Her life is an example of how to find a need in the world only you can fulfill.  It’s a glimpse of what it’s like to reach complete fulfillment - self actualization.

Introduction: My Mother’s Calling
My mother is a missionary. Well, that’s how I describe her [...]

Review: Tom Volkar’s Authentic Business Discovery Course

From September 29 to October 3, 2008, I was immersed in an intense self-exploration course called “Authentic Business Discovery” offered by my blogging colleague Tom Volkar of Delightful Work. Right off the bat, the timing of this offering was such a cool synchronicity, as I was just about to publish my business plan when [...]

How to Set Process-Oriented Goals and Be a Success Now (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting, the 3rd installment in a 4-part series.  And here’s the previous installment in this series.

To set process-oriented goals, you have to ask different set of questions than those you run through to set up result-oriented goals. With result-oriented, you consider the effectiveness, impact, [...]