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Meaningful self-employment: How to get started?
How to get started building your own business, and making it successful?
Over the past 12 years I’ve coached many self-employed people and I’ve found these to be the overall steps to success:
1. Decide the initial type of business. (It can change over time.)
2. Carve out the time for work. (You can’t expect to just “find the time”.)
3. Get a step by step strategy from mentors and advisors who know your field.
4. Self-regulation, mindful work, resilience… or what I call “joyful producti…
The EADA System for Joyful Productivity
(Eliminate, Automate, Delegate, Appreciate)
Not everything on your to-do list is meant to be done by you.
As you look at each task, does it fit all 3 criteria?
1. Enjoyment: You do (or wish to) enjoy doing it.
2. Expertise: You are (or wish to become) an expert at it.
3. Effect: This task has more worthwhile effects compared to other tasks you could do now.
If it passes all 3 checks, then the task is worth your action, with mindfulness and deliberate practice.
If it doesn’t pass …
If it doesn’t pass …
Hold lightly to your professional title and description
I’ve seen so many people get stuck about how to come up with the perfect professional title or succinct description of their work.
Here’s the secret:
It’s mostly a vanity exercise, unless you come up with a brilliant brand name, but that can take a lot of time. You can simply let it surface organically. If you keep waiting for that perfect name before you start your marketing, you might just go out of business.
You don’t need a perfect title or short description to start getting cli…
Thoughtful Life Calendaring (TLC) Coaching Program
I’m excited to announce my new 6-month coaching program called TLC -- Thoughtful Life Calendaring.
My expectation is that it will help a lot of you make consistent progress in your business, and create better self-care in your life, too.
We’re only into the launch for a few days, and I’m grateful that 21 people have already started the onboarding process. If the rest of this post resonates with you, consider joining us. I believe you’ll find it very beneficial.
Once you are ready to s…
Deliberate Practice to Find Enjoyment in Purposeful Tasks
The secret to joyful productivity is learning how to find enjoyment in any activity -- especially tasks that move your goals forward but isn’t naturally “fun” to do -- being able to do what is important, no matter what it is, with a consistency of joy.
This blog post will offer some ways to learn this valuable meta-skill.
Muscle Memory
Let’s start with the idea of Muscle Memory.
Most of us can walk and talk at the same time. Yet we’re born with neither ability.
With practice, yo…
Let’s start with the idea of Muscle Memory.
Most of us can walk and talk at the same time. Yet we’re born with neither ability.
With practice, yo…