The Best Game Ever Invented: Business
Throughout my life, I’ve always enjoyed playing games, particularly strategic ones. In high school, I was one of the main nerds who played chess in the library at lunch. And I blame video games for helping me lose my scholarship in college. (Yeah, I know, I can’t blame anyone but myself.) But on Monday nights…
Want To Live Your Dreams? Choose Them
I just wrote about a post over on the iThemes blog about living your dreams, after we live one of our lifetime dreams and got to live in Portugal for a month. In the post, I talk about: How living your dreams is about making good choices consistently How it’s about choices, not sacrifices Why…
My Interview with Inc. Magazine on Mental Health and Entrepreneurship
I am honored to say an interview I did for Inc Magazine columnist and best-selling author Amy Morin is now online: Why This Entrepreneur (Me) Is Talking To the Tech World About Mental Health. You can read more about my journey in mental health here and watch my presentation from WordCamp Denver here.
Less Options = More Happiness
I wrote a blog post on WordPress Plugins for our Make Money with WordPress focus about how when everything is an option or a choice, everything sucks.
Want Great Help Finding Your Next Career or The Right Biz Fit? Try Kolbe A Index
I love personality and strengths discovery tools (often called tests but they aren’t). They help me explore the depths of who I am and my value to the world. In the past I’ve talked about StrengthsFinder, Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator (take it here for free), and 5 Love Languages (take it here for free). A couple years ago,…
How To Evaluate New Business, Product Ideas
To follow along with my previous post titled Don’t Make It Harder Than It Needs To Be, here are the three main filters I use for evaluating new business or product ideas: Passion — Are you actually interested in it? Do you actually care about it? Like say you’re committed 5 years to do …. how about 15 years?…
3 Reasons I Write (And Long to Write More)
I write for three primary reasons: To share my experiences in order to help others (and now for my children too). To clarify, flesh out my thoughts, opinions and ideas; what I believe and have learned. And like writing “I won’t cut in line again” on a chalkboard 100 times, to remind myself of who I…
Choose to Invest in Friendships
I did a guest post at Post Status on Investing in Friendships Rather Than Enemies today. Enemies are only trouble. Enemies are distractions. Enemies eat my time and energy and focus. Enemies seek your destruction. Enemies oppose you. Enemies seek to “harm or weaken” you. Friends do the opposite. Why purposefully set out to make enemies…
What Are Your Life’s Core Values?
Was asked this question recently and wanted to pose it here: What are the top three values of your life? Values are only values if every decision you make is filtered through them. It’s not a value if it doesn’t make the checklist of your decisions. And you can tell what you value BY your…
Tackling Mental Health: Transcript of My WP Weekly Podcast Interview
I had the podcast interview I did with Marcus Couch and Jeff Chanler on WP Weekly transcribed … you can listen to the interview here as well. My talk and slides on Mental Health and Entrepreneurship, mentioned in the interview, are here. *** Intro with music in background: This is WordPress Weekly, your source for the…