Career Advice
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…
I just wrote a 2,100 word post about jealousy and how I was once consumed with it, how I battle it almost daily and what I do about it. Just reflecting on the freedom I’ve experienced to focus on my story and my journey and make progress by redirecting the energy makes me smile. Read…
This year our iThemes customer focus is WProsper, specifically we’re going to focus on helping our customers make money with WordPress and iThemes. I just wrote a post titled Why You Should Embrace Prosperity (and Not Feel Bad About It). I admit to being hung up on the word for many years, but when you…
In 2006, I clicked publish on a blog and it forever changed my life. Since then I’ve kept clicking publish, taking chances, and putting my work, opinions, ideas out there for the world to see (and hopefully be changed for the better). I commissioned this illustration by my friend James Dalman to highlight my talks…
If you need some inspiration, or a kick in the pants, to Click Publish on a project, business, idea, product, blog, etc, I have something just for you. Here is my 5-minute lightning talk from WordCamp San Francisco that I gave a couple of weeks ago. Here are the slides to the talk as well:…
“If everything you’ve done until now is just the beginning, what’s next?” –Dan Sullivan, StrategicCoach.com This question has been inspiring (and somewhat haunting) me this year. You can apply this to every aspect of your life — personal, family and professional. But since I rarely like to look back, it’s helped me think about what…
After four years at iThemes, today is the last day here for my friend and our creative director, Brad Ulrich. He’ll be taking a job to pioneer a digital division at Sonic Corporate, which runs “the nation’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants with more than 3,500 drive-ins serving approximately 3 million customers every day.” (Those…
I’ve written before about how we should all seek to Be the Solution at work. And I want to expand on that for working within teams. Work is all about problem solving. Using our unique talents and experiences to find solutions to problems. And the team players, the ones who understand they are hired for…
If you’re considering a new job, or accepting an offer, I wanted to share some thoughts on how to make a better, rational and emotional decision. As the saying goes, the grass is not always greener on the other side. Through these 10 questions, I hope you can get clarify and feel more confident about…
As I’ve been plowing through The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor (on the high recommendation from my friend Jason Schuller, and yes, it’s now one of my all-time recommendations too), I stumbled on a new personality tool that is really neat called the Character Strengths Profile. I’m a big advocate of StrengthsFinder (and we use Strengths proflicly…