Image via Wikipedia Have you noticed the entrepreneurial world is in an uproar? That we’ve been thrust into this QUEST to find answers?  Is one workshop better than another – is one piece of information more relevant than another? Who is the guide? What do we need to know? How many events and seminars must [...]

Image via Wikipedia No matter how clearly you see who you are as a business, there is a process of seeing beyond it.  Evolution is a series of epiphanies that unfold with insight and information.  Sometimes the key to your true direction gets buried, but was there all along.  You just couldn’t see it from [...]

Image via Wikipedia Have you noticed an increase in your mental activity? Do you feel less alone while being more alone? Are you meeting new people and getting familiar with their lives through Facebook?  Is it either waking you up in the morning or keeping you up at night? This is your lab. Your research [...]

Image via Wikipedia I got a call from a client who hurt my feelings in the past and in order for me to move forward, I told her this. Why did I open my mouth when the cardinal rule is to keep it shut?  Because, I was either going to turn it into a good [...]

Image via Wikipedia For entrepreneurs reaching into the future we have an unknown landscape before us. What worked before does not necessarily work now but it may work again as the economy shifts. Surviving the downturn has become its own profession. Here’s a suggestion that might help your journey. Identify how people are responding differently [...]

Image via Wikipedia In it’s hay day, reading the Tribune made you smarter.  You got great advice on how to handle wacky Uncle Harold or that rotten boyfriend. The news was reliable, offset with serious insights and Mike Royko’s voice of reason.  The Sunday Magazine was thick and delicious, featuring social events, spreads of our [...]

Image via Wikipedia America is suffering from Post Traumatic News Disorder.  We are barraged with everything that could go wrong, is going wrong and already did go wrong.  Turning on the TV is like hitting yourself on the head.  YES, I heard you.  Yes it’s ugly BUT there is a light at the end of [...]

The Big Ooga™ takes a hit early on- I pitched this concept early on to a business network CEO hoping to inspire her support. It was an exploratory move because I wasn’t ready to launch, but still I wanted confirmation on the concept. To my sheer amazement, when she pitched Big Ooga to her board, [...]

There’s two ways of going into business, planned and unplanned. I’ve done both and I can tell you planning makes it way harder.  When you go into business organically, doing something for free and then doing it for money, you don’t have any trepidation in doing it because you are already doing it. When you’re [...]