Category: Lifestyle design

  • Why you should say ‘no’ to money

    “Money is looking for you.” This was one of the odd phrases an associate of mine used whenever a client wanted to pay me money owed or needed services. At the time I owned a business on the corner of a main street in town but a lot of my clients came to me by…

  • Quick! Your life needs CPR. Close the laptop and resuscitate !

    Last night my husband rocked my world Too often, I don’t give him credit for understanding what I do. Too often, I am right. My husband works A LOT. He travels to far, far away places EXTENSIVELY. And for REALLY long periods of time. Then he wants to Skype or FaceTime me continually, interrupting my…

  • How I replaced my day job for the price of a couple of beers

    The short story is I unleashed the inner frickin’ awesomeness, gave everyone the virtual finger and plowed through all the negative talk like a horny gorilla that just spotted its mate. The long story is it took a lot of work to get rid of the fears holding me back and to develop the strength…

  • Get rid of fear, learn how to swagger

    Tony Horton doesn’t walk into a room, he swaggers He doesn’t just enter a room, he controls it. Of course he does, right? He’s Tony Horton, inventor of P90X, creator of chiseled bodies and possessor of abs I’d like to use as a tongue scraper. Amazingly, before he became Tony “Swagger” Horton he was just…

  • Why lifestyle design can lead to mind-blowing soul-gasms

    Last week I took two mind-blowing days off to find me. I finished up some projects and emailed clients telling them I’d be MIA for a couple of days and joined my husband and a couple of friends on a trip to find that cool, fun girl I was before the chains of responsibility so…

  • First step to changing your world: Wear fancy panties

    Today is the anniversary of the day I found myself in the middle of a Japanese Obon Festival in my laundry day underwear clutching a kimono to my chest. You see, last year I declared it my Year of Awesome—and looking back, it really was. Part of creating my Year of Awesome was to say…

  • Burn that bridge baby: Why holding onto your job is the wrong move

    Depending what generation you were brought up in, you may have been taught that the best path in life is to secure a great job, keep your nose to the grindstone and stay there until you retire. If you were brought up in a middle class household maybe you were told to get into a…

  • Why you should resolve to never make another resolution

    Do you ever get sick of the question, “What’s your New Year’s resolution?” Or how about the alternate “What are your business goals for the new year?” Honestly I think that this topic should be on your mind throughout the year. I mean really, do you just revisit your business goals once a year? Actually,…

  • How to attract clients you want to work with

    “You need to change your website so that it appeals to everyone.” That’s what a friend once told me when I was asking for suggestions about what was good and bad about my business. My retort was “Why?” She just shook her head like I was some clueless child. The thing she didn’t understand is…

  • True confessions of success

    I just finished reading a terrific post by a guy I totally love, Mars Dorian. I am so totally glad you are back Mars! Anyway, he wrote a post on showing your vulnerable side and how this can totally benefit your business. I’ve never been one to show fake successful stats or to show only…