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The Truth of Life in the Game of Sequence

Have you ever played the board game Sequence?  We got a child version of it, and I’ve been playing it with my 5-year old daughter.
It’s a game where you have several cards in your hands at a time, and you’re trying to line up chips on the board.  You lay one card at a time, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

60-Day Challenge Wk1: Plowing through Resistance

This entry is part 2 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.  And do so without neglecting my family’s needs.

They say time flies, but I, for one, never been a firm believer.  Sometimes true, of course, but [...]

60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship — Will Power of Love Be Enough?

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series 60-Day Challenge: Intuitive Entrepreneurship“The ‘how’ comes after you get moving, rarely before. Not knowing how is one of the lamest excuses ever invented. Figure it out as you go.”– Steve Pavlina
Many of us dream of doing what we love more fully. I am no exception.
Yet, [...]

Intuition: Leaping without Knowing Where You’ll Land

In this essay I discuss the nature of intuition and how I’ve decided to “surrender” to it — accept and follow my intuition without worrying too much about why and how.

A year ago, my family uprooted our home of 10 years in Austin, Texas and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Before moving, we tried to [...]

How to Rise to the Occasion

This final installment of the series “How to Enjoy Challenges” examines how a challenge can bring the best in a person — or the worst.  By diligently removing threats you associate with challenges, anyone can become a brave soul who rises to the occasion and pulls out the best in him/herself.
A challenge can bring [...]