Entrepreneurship
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I don’t like blame. Blame has such a harsh, negative and unproductive feeling for me. And it too often appears in team or group interactions. Blame is “assigning responsibility for fault or wrong.” In a courtroom, blame is essential. I get that. But in the workplace or in any team environment, where fallible human beings…
The older I’ve gotten, the more I won’t just give my time to anyone who asks or pushes anymore. I’m very generous with sharing my experiences and expertise. When asked to speak, or when I write like this, I’ve sought to be more and more vulnerable and transparent in order to help people. Sharing openly what…
One of the amazing takeaways I’ve had from my experience in the Oklahoma chapter Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a saying I’ve heard often: Carry Your Own Bags The idea is … what you get out of the experience is what you make of it. Your experience, happiness and fulfillment is your responsibility. Period. It’s particularly…
Just wrote a long post sharing the mental processes I’ve used over 8+ years of entrepreneurship for dealing with the lows, the downtimes of business (and life) titled “5 Ways to Better Manage the Lows in Business.” Know You’re Not Alone. Acknowledge Your Brain Distorts Things. Reset the Defaults to Hope, Optimism and Confidence. Be Lucky…
Note: I shared these ideas and stories around The Iceberg of Life from my own life — successes AND struggles — at PressNomics 4 in March 2016 and then again in December 2016 at WordCamp US. And now I’m finally getting to share it more broadly. Thinking about life and business like this has been…
