I’ve been teaching myself to draw. I’ve actually been working on it for many years now and I finally feel like I’m making a little bit of progress. But even though I’ve drawn some things I really like, I still get sweaty palms when I sit down in front of a blank page. I’m not sure of how the drawing will turn out. I fear it will be awful. I feel stymied by not...
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One of the biggest, most troubling questions entrepreneurs and pretty much everyone else faces every day is: What should I be doing right now? Which should be followed closely by: What am I doing right now? Some of us are great at making lists, setting up our schedule and tackling tasks in order of importance. Others of us meander around and sometimes manage to get...
Read MoreI talked recently with an author who believes she should be blogging to get the word out about her book but wasn’t. At first, she said she had just been too busy, which is probably partly true. But often, there’s more to the story. “Writing comes easily for me so I don’t feel that there’s much of a point to it,” she explained. “And I have so much to say but then I...
Read MoreI have a friend who like many of us has more to do than can actually get done in a day as he grows his business. And yet, he spends some that precious time correcting the emails of one of his employees. They read too much like texts, he explained. He said he felt a need to make them sound more professional. But he also wondered whether it mattered. It’s a good...
Read MoreWhenever I need a quick ego boost, all I have to do is trawl through the spam folder of my blog comments. Usually, the spam filter efficiently rescues me from these insincere, trash comments by shifting them off to a separate folder before I can see them. Everyone once in awhile, I check to make sure a real comment didn’t get lost in the bunch. Most are...
Read MoreAs I write this, my computer sits stuck on a photo of a beautifully sculpted marble foot. It is a lovely picture from the Musee D’Orsay in Paris. But as lovely as it is, it’s not what I need to see right now. I need to see my email and my word docs and this blog post. So instead of sitting in my cozy office, I am down the hall using someone else’s...
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