Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is …
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…
Just added a new book to my All-Time, Ultimate Reading List titled The 6 Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden. I wish I had started reading this book when I was a teenager, and read it every year afterward. Foundational, impactful, truth for health and happiness. “To trust one’s mind and to know that one…
Actor Steve Martin famously said: Be so good … they can’t ignore you. If I may add, Mr. Martin, to your great advice, the following, which is an edited version I shared with our team today. For your clients and customers …. Be so good … they know you truly love and care about them.…
Just wrote this post for WProsper about how I don’t usually take time to look back at what I’ve accomplished, but did today and how good it was for my soul. Take 15 Minutes to Look Back
My friends Brad Williams and Dre Armeda of Dradcast asked me to be the first guest host for Season 3, titled Bursting Bubbles. Had a great time on the show talking about everything from parenting as an entrepreneur, culture and camaraderie at iThemes to WordPress powering 25% of the web. Fun times all around, but…
Been thinking over the last week about guilt and its presence and impact in my life … and in those who I care about, so I wrote a length post on the iThemes blog about How to Deal with Guilt. Here’s an excerpt of how I determine if something is baseless, useless guilt, or actual…
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…
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…
