I challenge you to find a simpler process Accountability is a key benefit of working in a mastermind group. Like-minded people supporting each other in a common endeavor need others to keep on track. I’m part of a online-business mastermind group, and we saw the need to check in more regularly than once a month … Read more
Adapt my experiment to increase your completion rate You’ve heard it not one, but two million times: Show up consistently and do the thing. If you’ve had trouble showing up consistently to do the thing, but want to, it saps your desire to succeed and keeps you up at night. Allow me to show you … Read more
And my moment channeling Gary Vee Maybe you’ve seen the news about actions taken in the US to reduce the size of government. Without going into any details, the start of 2025 is indeed a supremely unsettling time to be a govvie. Workplace stress abounds! Don’t ask me for advice. I might give it to … Read more
Turn the ordinary into the extraordinary Gratitude journaling is simply writing what you’re grateful or thankful for. It’s regular reminders of the blessings in your life. I’m on a two-day streak with my gratitude journaling. (That counts, right?) Last night I was tired but managed to write this in my journal after spinning my wheels … Read more
All in the name of profitability. Stepping down from gold-level service is tough. It feels like a demotion. That’s the wrenching decision I made recently when I moved my sites off SiteGround. I’ve gone through many hosting services, and SiteGround kicked the booty cheeks of all the other hosts I’ve used. It was by far … Read more
I hope you’ve already gotten past this one, actually! I haven’t. It stings a bit when your own words come back to bite you in the ass. I’ve been writing online in public forums for over two decades, so I have a lot of words out there ready to munch-munch. Long on advice, short on … Read more
And that’s OK! Jamie Northrup asked this question on social media: Which side hustle earned you the most in 2024? He then announced that his biggest money-maker was Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, a highly passive income stream. That’s the dream of many solopreneurs: Making money in your sleep. Jamie’s living that dream right now, and … Read more
Yes, that Office Space Chotchkie’s Benable is part Pinterest board, part affiliate marketing store. It’s free to use with an invitation. (Consider yourself invited!) It’s quite easy to create attractive lists centered around mostly whatever you want, and make money from them. Here are my Benable lists. Benable is upfront about what makes a good … Read more
Start even smaller with nano-actions. I’ll often come up with something catchy, only to find out that it’s been said before and, more importantly, I’ve read it before. That was what happened when I arrived at the term “micro-action” to describe a small thing that we can do to: I heard Carl Richards, the mind … Read more
Do this daily to sleep better at night. There’s little worse than feeling trapped in your life. Maybe the job that you’ve been working at for a while has stalled, or it’s a chore to get up in the morning to go there, for whatever reason. Feeling trapped grinds you down a slow spiral. Feeling … Read more