Some wise words from my dear friend Alex Baisley (pictured here) about how sometimes our deepest wounds can be our truest niche and how important and overlooked our point of view is for our businesses. He’s leading 16 entrepreneurs through his Doin’ Your Own Thing Income Figure Outer program coming up soon. Alex is one […]
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I was in Vancouver a few weeks ago and my friend Jackie told me about a new book she was reading called ‘True Wealth.’ (originally titled ‘Plenitude’) She gave me the basic run down and I loved the messaged. So I emailed the author and she kindly sent me an excerpt to share with you.
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Do you use Gmail? This might be the most useful app ever created for email overwhelm. Seriously. This little app (which is 100% free I might add) just let me cut my gmail inbox in half by scheduling emails to vanish and then reappear on the date I want to deal with them. So good!
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I’m in Vancouver sitting at yet another favourite hang out spot here – Eternal Abundance (full of raw vegan goodness, comfy chairs, high ceilings and lots of natural light). I love places like this. I just finished my weekend workshop in Vancouver (and Victoria the weekend before that). You can see photos here. And something
I was in Thailand a month ago, chatting with my friend Shilpa Jain. We were talking about how people learn things. And she shared this idea of a learning web. And how there are different ways we can learn things. As she spoke, my mind immediately raced to the relevance for business. Learning Webs –
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My dear colleague Heather Gray (pictured here) recorded this short video last year. It’s about ten minutes long and is a great primer to see if working, living and playing on your own terms is really for you. She makes quite the compelling case. If you’re wanting to get online and on the fence about
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I am likely the last person to be talking about downtime. I seem to be on the computer often (and late). But this post reminds me of the importance of spaciousness. I thought you might enjoy it as much as I did. Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we
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In my email recently, I got a newsletter from Maggie Ostara who’s work I’ve just started following. And I think she really nails this whole conversation about niche and the ways that entrepreneurs seem to just fall into ‘the way it’s always been done’. Below is her article . . . I have a
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I just came across a very cool business network called IAMPTE that’s coming from a very different point of view in business – ‘it’s okay to be a part time entrepreneur!‘ As I learned about it from Calgary based founder Kim Page Gluckie (pictured right), it struck me the immense pressure most entrepreneurs feel to
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Last weekend, I was in Canmore at the launch event for the Evolutionary Business Council and, in the last half hour, my friend Alex Baisley was asked to share a few words with the whole group about building a ‘lifestyle business’. At the end of his sharing, he got a huge standing ovation from people
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