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14 Nov Your brain at 3 am: YES! Your brain at 9 am: …maybe later

Posted at 13:16h in Business, effort, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Results, sales

Ever find yourself feeling super excited and motivated about a project—until you sit down to actually do it? Many of my clients have full enthusiasm in the idea stage, only to have it fade once it’s time to actually get started. Remember Newton’s First Law of...

29 Apr Are you leaving money on the table?

Posted at 16:33h in Abundance, Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Uncategorized, Wealth

How many times do you follow up with someone after a sales conversation if they don’t buy on the first call?

09 Feb To be a winner, get good at losing

Posted at 14:56h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational

I heard a song for the first time called “Learn to Lose” by Bakermat. (Looking it up on YouTube I see it has 10 million views, so clearly I’m a bit out of the loop.) These lyrics in particular jumped out at me:

15 Jun How to Give and Receive Part: 2

Posted at 11:39h in Uncategorized

Liz Wolfe is featured on Josh Wilson's podcast 'Uncensored Advice for Men'

04 Feb Only 8%

Posted at 11:31h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational

8%.

That’s the percentage of people who actually accomplish the goals that they set at the beginning of a new year.

15 Jan Don’t fall for that “best year ever” stuff…

Posted at 12:15h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Resolutions, Wealth

In the last couple weeks, my inbox has been inundated with emails entreating me to have my Best. Year. Ever!!

12 Apr After ten years, this happened…

Posted at 12:25h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Wealth

When my daughter Isabel was four years old, I took her with me to my hairdresser,

02 Jan Why your New Year’s resolutions might be doomed to fail (Part 1 of 2)

Posted at 18:33h in Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Resolutions, Uncategorized

If you’re a regular at a gym you know that all the equipment is taken from January 1 through mid-February

17 Dec 3 tips for getting everything you want this holiday season (and in life)

Posted at 10:12h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Uncategorized, Wealth

My mother used to tell a story about a Christmas morning early in her marriage to my father.

08 Oct Want to grow your business? Make mistakes.

Posted at 11:53h in Business, Entrepreneurship

My daughter came home crying last week. She recently got her first job, picking up a neighborhood boy once a week from his after school program

05 Jul Wabi-sabi, or how to enjoy a high school graduation

Posted at 12:28h in Inspirational

Monday was a major milestone in my family's life. My son Julian graduated from high school.

10 Jan Why your New Year’s resolutions might be doomed to fail (Part 1 of 2)

Posted at 15:42h in Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Resolutions, Uncategorized

If you’re a regular at a gym you know that all the equipment is taken from January 1 through mid-February

14 Sep I just assumed I would be 40 and divorced

Posted at 17:23h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Personal, Uncategorized, Wealth

Happy Anniversary to me! That’s right, I’ve been married to my husband Jon for 21 years as of last week.

07 Jun Are there alligators in your way?

Posted at 12:09h in Entrepreneurship, Inspirational

Last month I went to a stimulating business conference in Orlando. Surprisingly, the most memorable learning experience for me came out of a nature walk I took on the hotel grounds.

10 Apr Are you solving problems you don’t have?

Posted at 17:14h in Entrepreneurship, Inspirational

Did you know that a major obstacle keeping people from achieving their goals is that they spend their mental energy on solving problems they don’t even have?

10 Apr When bad things happen to good entrepreneurs

Posted at 16:34h in Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Positivity

I left my laptop on a NYC subway. Yep, I was taking my daughter to a dance camp in Brooklyn and I left the computer bag on the D train.

20 Feb Lambs in the basement: a winter flashback

Posted at 10:31h in Abundance, Inspirational, Personal

A hot cup of coffee. Crispy, almost burnt toast. An uncomfortable sense that I’m already behind in my day.

17 Jun A Father’s Day fastwrite – The Good Life

Posted at 10:38h in Inspirational, Personal

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." Clarence Budington Kelland I saw this quote posted on Facebook on Father’s day.

11 Jan The Anti-New Year’s Resolution: Systems, not Goals.

Posted at 10:37h in Inspirational, Personal, Resolutions

I ended 2013 uncharacteristically grumpy. I felt on the brink of tears or anger for much of the last couple of weeks of the year, without really being able to identify why.

22 May Money Talks. Are you listening?

Posted at 13:14h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Positivity, Productivity

A hot topic in the news these days is why the “1%” have such a disproportionately large amount of accumulated wealth

28 Jan Even in the Face of Evidence (Lessons Learned from Sheep Farming)

Posted at 14:33h in Inspirational, Personal

Growing up, my father, two sisters, and I took many road trips to visit relatives for summer vacations.

21 Jan New Year’s Resolutions: Friend or Foe?

Posted at 10:35h in Entrepreneurship, Inspirational

When I was a child, we had a family friend who we would often visit on Saturdays.

09 Jan Sweet Success: Carrying on a Family Tradition

Posted at 14:35h in Inspirational, Personal

There’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of getting something done that I’ve wanted to do for a long time.

29 Dec It’s Always Something

Posted at 14:37h in Inspirational, Personal

My mother used to say, “It’s always something.” I’ve been looking forward to going upstate for quite a while.

20 Nov Give Thanks Whatever Happens

Posted at 14:39h in Inspirational, Personal

After Hurricane Sandy, a graduate of the Abundance & Prosperity workshop, Will Romero, wrote these words:

24 Oct How well do you receive money?

Posted at 14:42h in Abundance, Inspirational, Personal

I recently read a moving and insightful book called 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life

04 Oct The Presidential debate got me thinking

Posted at 14:44h in Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Miscellaneous

Did you watch the presidential debate last night? I did, and boy, was it stimulating.

26 Sep School Lunch Trays Hamper Our Children’s Future

Posted at 14:57h in Miscellaneous, Personal

Growing up in a rural community, I attended a small elementary school, where the school lunch was 35 cents.

24 Sep Ukulele Lady

Posted at 15:06h in Inspirational, Personal

I’m a singer, and all my life, I’ve wanted to play the guitar so that I could accompany myself.

05 Sep Saving vs. Letting Go

Posted at 15:17h in Inspirational, Personal

My husband Jon’s grandparents lived right around the corner from him while he was growing up, and I was lucky to have met Jon while they