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It was March of 2010, and things were looking bleak.
Or maybe it was March of 2011. It could have been either — I had a lot of bleak years. Anyway, on this particular occasion, I had sat down with my mother to go over the financials for my music school, Eclectic Music.
Revenue was fine. But revenue is not really the important number, is it? What really matters is profit, and mine was nonexistent.
Read MoreSeveral years ago, my brother, who is a software developer, changed jobs and went to work for a different company.
A pioneer in the work-from-home movement, he would still be coding from amidst the tangle of cables and blinking lights in his basement. But he’d be collaborating on an all-new project with all-new people.
I felt a pang of jealousy. “That’s not fair,” I thought. “He gets to work somewhere new, and I’m stuck doing the same thing.”
Read MoreDespite hard work and good intentions, years can go by without meaningful progress toward our most deeply-held goals.
It turns out that this is the problem I’m most interested in helping people solve these days. And I am very interested in exploring why so many of us do everything but the work we feel most called to do.
Read MoreI used to struggle to stick with things, especially creative projects.
The Internet is littered with my abandoned websites, blogs and profiles. My hard drives are crusted over with books I’ve started writing and various courses that I began developing and never completed.
There are plenty of people out there who will tell me that I didn’t want it badly enough, I allowed myself to fail, I lacked discipline, or I didn’t believe in myself.
Read MoreOne of the pitfalls I’ve observed when people try to change their lives is that they try to change everything at once.
The person who hasn’t set foot in a library for years is going to try to read 52 books before December 31, or the person obsessed with Twitter and dating apps decides to go on a no-phone diet.
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