Some people are naturals at Solopreneurship. They know how to generate business as easily as eating their breakfast. They seem to have a great business mindset. For others, they struggle with business and it could be because they don’t have that same mindset as the superstars. Is it possible for those who struggle to improve […]
The 3 Things You Must Do To Be “All In”
Give your all to your life. You can’t be half-in, half-out.” –Urban Meyer You’ve heard the term “all in,” haven’t you? It means being fully committed to something. The term is borrowed from poker, where “all in” means having all of your chips at stake in a particular hand. As you know, I’m a football […]
Napoleon Hill on The 10 Major Causes of Failure in Leadership
Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in a cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. Hill’s mother died when he was 10 years old, and Napoleon’s father, James Hill, had difficulty taming his son’s wild nature. Napoleon, enamored of the outlaw Jesse James, carried a six-shooter on his hip and went about the […]
Think for Yourself
There’s a short passage in the book “Moneyball” that can be paraphrased and applied to solopreneurship. Think for yourself along rational lines. Hypothesize, test against the evidence, never accept that a question has been answered as well as it ever will be. Don’t believe a thing is true just because some famous businessperson says it […]
21 Things We Love and Hate About Being Solopreneurs (in GIFs)
In a typical day, how many times do you swing back and forth between loving the stuff you’re working on and hating it? Two times? Ten times? Fifty times? I’ve never kept track, but I know there can be a lot of love/hate for me, even within an hour. But that’s the nature of the […]
How Five Famously Nonviolent People Used Aggression to Achieve Their Goals
As author Laurence G. Boldt explains in “Zen and the Art of Making a Living,” aggressiveness is the assertion of power, the use of power. Aggression can be used for good or ill, and people who achieve the Holy Grails of their lives are masters of aggressive energy. “Concentration is the assertion of a single […]
My Goals for 2014
This is the eve of 2014, and I am writing a list of goals I want to achieve in the next 12 months. My overarching goal for 2014 is easy to comprehend, yet difficult for me to accomplish: slow down. Why do I want to slow down? Well, consider that an asset of mine is […]
Look Around. What Symbolizes Your Work and Life?
This month’s Smithsonian magazine includes a section titled “101 Objects That Made America.” Photos of the objects, which are from the Smithsonian museums, include: ● Meriwether Lewis’s compass ● A plate from a John James Audobon painting ● A gold nugget from Sutter’s Mill ● Abraham Lincoln’s top hat ● Louis Armstrong’s trumpet ● Neil […]
What Does Your January 2, 2014 Look Like?
A vision without a plan is just a dream. A plan without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a plan can change the world. (Anonymous) You know what visualization is. And you know that visualization is a powerful tool that can be used to help achieve any goal. I encourage you to use visualization […]
From the UnCollege Manifesto: 12 Steps to Self-Directed Lifelong Learning
Several months ago, at the encouragement of a good friend and fellow solopreneur, I read the UnCollege manifesto, written by Dale J. Stephens. If I could recommend only thing for you to read, it would be the UnCollege manifesto. Today I re-read the manifesto, and I want to share this list from it. 12 Steps […]