Before we get into the journaling…Do you know why the work of building a business is so hard?It’s because we’re building something from scratch.We’re creating something that, at one time, existed nowhere but in our hearts and minds.This may sound blasphemous—it did to my heart when the thought first arose—but creating and running a business […]
I’ve been thinking about influence lately. As in … I need to grow my influence if I’m to have more of an effect on this world. And, don’t you know it, once something enters your psyche, you begin to see it everywhere. In a video inside one of the Facebook groups I’m a member of, Dan Knowlton, co-founder of […]
You know that feeling you get when you see, hear, or experience something profound? You want to pause there. Expand the moment. Linger. See what else comes up for you. Maybe you want to linger over a song you connect with, deeply and instantly, the way Snow Patrol’s 16-minute story song connected with me. Here is but one piece […]
Greatness. Isn’t that what we digital entrepreneurs aspire to? We want to be recognized as authorities in our fields. We want to hold influence over the shape of our worlds, and our clients’ worlds. And, we want a large — okay, let’s be real here — a MASSIVE following. We want a tribe full of people who look up […]
This is post #1 of my book-to-blog experiment; read the previous post, about the inspiration for the project, here. What’s your talk trigger? Is there one thing about you or your business that makes customers talk about you? If so, that might be your “talk trigger,” a term coined by Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin in their […]
Trying to increase two habits I long for: reading and blogging time. Hey there. I’m Renae, an online business owner since 2002. Running and growing that business, along with raising a family from toddlers to college students, has taken up much of my time — including my reading and blogging time. And even though my reading and blogging time […]
Do you have a North Star for your business?By North Star, I mean a shining light that guides you along the journey. A light that acts as a reference point and keeps you from getting lost when you stray from the path of your intentions. These days, we don’t follow an actual star. We follow a […]
Right now, your Soul’s Purpose is searching for you. I recently read an article by Ponny SH Lam called, “Do You Choose your Soul Purpose, Or Does It Choose You?” In it, Ponny talks about how, when she was a university Career Advisor, the Universe sparked her soul by way of a chance encounter at a fast-food […]
Forget the “ain’t nobody got time for that” memeI had a Zoom meeting with my mastermind recently. (By the way, I highly recommend masterminding … SO GOOD!) We were talking about the progress we’ve been making in our online businesses. That’s when one of the members mentioned something she’d heard from some online guru, something about how sometimes […]
Do you want to publish a blog? If you want to write blog posts, either for your blog or for other people’s blogs, but you know you’re no Hemingway, then this blog post is for you. (I’m no Hemingway either, and here I am, blogging.) Shoot, this post is for you even if you feel like Elaine […]
From non-completer to completer in 30 days. Until just a little while ago, I called myself a non-completer. My life blazed a trail of unfinished projects and plans, and unused products…. I bought one of those infomercial home gym sets … and wound up selling it. I joined a gym. Cancelled after two months. (Did this three times that […]
A small change with big consequencesWhat do you say when people ask you how you are? “Hey there! How are ya?!?” If you’re anything like me, you say things like:I’m fine, thanksI’m exhaustedI’m super busyI’m tiredOne day, when I was Zooming with my accountability buddy during our weekly call, I responded to his, “How are you?” with, […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted.For the last 20 years, life has been a whirlwind of car rides and shopping and laundry and doctors’ appointments and emails and courses and projects and website problems and VA problems and on … and on … and on. The hours and days speed by, as do the […]
Dear blogger, in your posts I see your beauty, your brilliance, my callingAlthough this post is part of my 30 Day Blogging Challenge, I’m not just bringing these words, sentences, and paragraphs into being to satisfy some requirement or complete a challenge I set for myself. Yes, those two things are important, but the real reason […]
My three guiding words for 2018What word or words will guide you in 2018?I follow and am in a group coaching program held by Christine Kane, who has a FABULOUS and in-depth Word-of-the-Year Discovery Tool. Last year, I used that tool to find my word for 2017, which was CHOOSE.I’m not sure what happened to the word […]
When I started my business back in 2002, I was on a mission. I wanted to help small business owners, solopreneurs, and marketers lead more people to YES with clear content and strong positioning that would differentiate them online and offline. As time went on, my motives became less altruistic. Growing more and more tired of crappy […]
The other day, I ran across an inspiring, motivational image for small business motivation in an email from Gapingvoid Art. To me, the image communicates, in a nutshell, that it’s easy to look at a person you admire, a company you’d like to emulate, or some end result you want, and feel discouraged.From the email:It’s easy […]
