I looked at myself in the mirror. My body was short, very wide, and I had a huge head. My movements looked strange and contorted. No matter which way I turned, the view didn’t get any better.
From every direction I looked weird. Not how I thought I would and should.
How would you like to start “You, Inc” right within your current job? In this episode, I explain 3 powerful entrepreneurial strategies you can use to transform your work into much more than just a job.
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| Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe in Stitcher | Subscribe via RSSOnce upon a time there was a miller who had a beautiful daughter. He wanted to make himself appear important, so he bragged to the king that his daughter could spin straw into gold. Of course the king wanted more gold, so he locked the beautiful daughter up and demanded she produce the gold.
The daughter had no idea how to spin straw into gold. She sat at the spinning wheel frightened and sobbing.
I went to college in Staten Island, NY. It was a small, wooded campus, on top of a large hill. When walking around, you could almost forget you were in the city. Tall oaks, wide maples, beautiful cherry trees that bloomed in late spring. Walking paths weaving through the campus.
For most of my college years, I lived in a dorm called Harborview Hall. This dorm was tall, like a large apartment building.
Here’s where you knew you were in the city. Out my dorm room window, I had this view:
Have you thought about starting your own business and ignored it because it feels impossible? How about one that serves, solves problems, or changes others’ thinking? It is possible, even while you work at your day job.
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| Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe in Stitcher | Subscribe via RSSHave you ever started on a path that had only one way out? You had to make a choice about going forward or going back? When there was no other way out but through? How did you decide that it was worth the effort to move forward? What did it take to keep going when the path got difficult?
Here’s what I learned on a walking path in Ireland.
Have you ever started a project and not finished it? To design your future, you need a plan. 12 steps to planning for success.
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| Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe in Stitcher | Subscribe via RSSHave you ever been told that you can’t do something? Worse yet, have you ever told yourself that you can’t do something? Who says?
Do you believe it?
Do you ever find yourself going through life on auto-pilot, not really noticing or appreciating what is around you? Driving mindlessly to work, dreading the day. Chilling out in the evening, or working the “second shift” – all those chores screaming to be done. Oblivious to your surroundings.
Difficult circumstances can prevent us from seeing beauty too. I wrote a post about this on Michele Cushatt’s blog. (Check out her site and her book Undone.) We get caught up in focusing on what we have lost, and don’t see what blessings we have.
All the while only a few feet away is a big, beautiful world. One that we so easily miss.
You can design a full, rich, meaningful life. We so often get stuck right at the start with that blank piece of paper. Listen for 4 strategies to start designing your future.
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