Well, for many people on this list, Christmas will have just happened and gifts will have been, in some fashion, given and received. If you got any gifts, there’s a good chance that you loved some of them and other ones had you utterly question your friendship with that person and wonder if they even […]
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by Julie Wolk It’s time to talk about boundaries, people! This is a subject often broached in personal development – holding boundaries is considered essential for maintaining emotional health (for example, you may choose not to spend time with a particular friend who drains your energy). But boundaries are rarely discussed in a business context. And
The other day, I got the following email from someone: “I have been following you for a long time and really enjoy the newsletter. I have your books, I watch your youtube videos, the whole thing. I have a question, though. I am a property manager, I make decent money with just a few homes
On Firing Bad Clients: Seven Questions Worth Asking Yourself Read More
The other day, I was wondering about why there was such an appeal to marketing courses that taught secrets of unconscious persuasion, stealth tactics, invisible influence, secret closes, ninja strategies etc. The implication of all of these approaches was that no one would notice what you were doing. No one would notice that you were
Marketing Feels Bad Because We’re Ashamed Not Because It’s Shameful Read More
Gifts and tools are different things. Gifts are those things that come to you naturally. Those capacities, inclination, tendencies and abilities you were born with. These are the things you do that feel effortless for you where you lose track of time. We are, in some mysterious way, born with these. They are woven into
Most of the people who come to my Marketing for Hippies 101 workshops feel like failures in marketing. Some because they tried everything and it hasn’t worked out the way they were told it would. Some because they’ve tried nothing at all. But many of them seem to come through the doors feeling like something
What if there’s nothing wrong with you? Read More
During my last tour in Toronto leading my Marketing for Hippies 101 workshop, I was asked the same question, twice in different workshops. “But don’t people have a hard time making decisions?” And, both times, I had to stop to address it. The notion that people struggle to make decisions is one of the classic
“But aren’t people indecisive?” Read More
If you’ve ever struggled with confidence in building your business, this blog post is for you. This blog post isn’t written to give advice so much as it is to comfort and console and to lift our gaze up from our personal struggles to the bigger context in which they lie. It is a long
The Poverty of Believing in Yourself Read More
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” – Carl Jung Sometimes in business things go wrong. Sometimes it’s because we are out of integrity. Sometimes it’s because others are. Sometimes, everyone’s in integrity and it still falls apart. However it happens, there’s
What am I being asked to see here? Read More
If you’re on this list you’re an entrepreneur but, if I know my people at all, that really means you’re a solopreneur. Emphasis on the word “solo.” That means you’re doing almost everything alone. And you think that you should be doing better. This is insanity. What if, instead of beating yourself up for not
Getting Unstuck: The Five Minute Support-Asking Blitz Read More