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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.
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.
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,…
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?…
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…
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…
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’ve been thinking about product and business ideas that (mostly) I’ve considered and chased over the last 7 or 8 years (especially after my talk at WordCamp Miami on the Highs and Lows of the Product Journey). And one thing sticks out to me: Sometimes I really make it tough on myself. I overlook the…
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…
For our customer focus this year — WProsper, helping our community make money with WordPress and our products — I did an extensive post on What is Value. I realized working through it for myself that: Value Is The Expectation Of A Result At the end of the post, I give a set of questions as…