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I Advice - Entrepreneurs, Fear of Success and the Myth of Commonality
In April of 2004, the NOW Legal Defense and Education fund changed their name to Legal Momentum. The name change was a grand success. LM's Vice President of Communications, Maureen McFadden, shares these four tips to ensure the same success for your nonprofit:1. Dedicate Yourself. Dedicate yourself to a long-term process for the name change. Be prepared for the process to become emotionally exhausting at certain points (names, like design, trigger emotional response).2. Include Staff, Board Members and Stakeholders. Be inclusive in a way that contributes to the name change process. Beware -- when the going gets rough, the knee-jerk response is to pull back and become very secretive. But this is the point at which it's especially critical to keep the dialogue going.3. Research Other Name Changes.
To make matters worse, he then listed all the things I had been dabbling in, both for fun and profit, since leaving my prior career. With my newly awakened entrepreneurialism added to all my prior avocational interests, my lis
When interview committees and principals interview art teachers, they're looking for someone who can connect with the entire culture of the school. They're looking for a person who empowers students to create beautiful artwork, has a presence in extra-curricular activities, and can effectively manage students in a classroom full of messy, sloppy supplies. An art program is often the proud centerpiece of a school's curriculum and schools want to fill that position with the most competent art teacher available.Interviewing is stressful for any candidate. My best advice is to be prepared with a complete teaching portfolio and to practice common interview questions beforehand. While you don't need to rehearse what you'll say word-for-word, it's not a bad idea to prepare yourself by thinking about your responses to general questions that will be asked.Art tea
I had just shared an article with my husband on "Secret Dining", a hip new trend making its way from Chicago to New York. Essentially these underground "restaurants" offer gourmet dinners at invitation-only parties in exchange for "donations". Sometimes dinners are combined with salon-type discussions, art showings or other events. Cool, exclusive, hip. All the fun of running an upscale restaurant without all the health department hassles.
I am a woman with a many interests. In one recent lunch conversation a friend and I managed to touch on a mind-boggling array of topics including martial arts, knitting and crocheting, gourmet cooking, Tarot cards, dream interpretation, massage/bodywork, marriage, writing, photography, tea ceremonies, pottery, journalling, and what she plans on doing when she becomes an empty nester a year from now. This was before I read the Secret Dining article, which now had me thinking about our monthly parties and the musicians I would love to have play for us and how a playwright friend may want to use our home as a set for a play. A little Midsummer Night's Dream in our woods, perhaps?
My husband knows me very well and followed my river of unspoken thoughts to its logical conclusion while I casually ate my dinner and waited for him to finish reading. Once he reached the end, he calmly placed the paper on the table, looked me in the eye and said "No, you cannot open a restaurant in our home." All attempts to deny that I had been seriously entertaining the thought were met with patient silence and that knowing look that told me I was fooling no one.
Then he asked the Question of Death: "When are you going to do what you are really supposed to be doing and write your book?"
"Whaaaa, but I don't know what the book is."
"Yes you do. You know the one after that, too. You think you have to know the book completely before you write it but it doesn't work that way. Everything that you are learning and everything that you know doesn't mean anything to anyone unless you are going to do something with it."
To make matters worse, he then listed all the things I had been dabbling in, both for fun and profit, since leaving my prior career. With my newly awakened entrepreneurialism added to all my prior avocational interests, my list
For everyone who runs their own business, they know how easily they can be pulled from one task to another and eventually they can have the sense that the business has begun to spin out of control. Not knowing how to keep the focus of the business and how to handle the day to day tasks has a large impact on how a business runs and how well it can succeed.As a business owner, it exciting to come up with the ideas of where you want to take the company and also how you see the company getting there, is it ideal for you to also handle the task and details of actually taking the company to the level, not necessarily. Forward thinking business owners look inward and determine where their strengths lay and seek out personnel, contractors or virtual assistants to strength their areas of weaknesses.Understanding strategic thinking and planning versus operational pl
I am a woman with a many interests. In one recent lunch conversation a friend and I managed to touch on a mind-boggling array of topics including martial arts, knitting and crocheting, gourmet cooking, Tarot cards, dream interpretation, massage/bodywork, marriage, writing, photography, tea ceremonies, pottery, journalling, and what she plans on doing when she becomes an empty nester a year from now. This was before I read the Secret Dining article, which now had me thinking about our monthly parties and the musicians I would love to have play for us and how a playwright friend may want to use our home as a set for a play. A little Midsummer Night's Dream in our woods, perhaps?
My husband knows me very well and followed my river of unspoken thoughts to its logical conclusion while I casually ate my dinner and waited for him to finish reading. Once he reached the end, he calmly placed the paper on the table, looked me in the eye and said "No, you cannot open a restaurant in our home." All attempts to deny that I had been seriously entertaining the thought were met with patient silence and that knowing look that told me I was fooling no one.
Then he asked the Question of Death: "When are you going to do what you are really supposed to be doing and write your book?"
"Whaaaa, but I don't know what the book is."
"Yes you do. You know the one after that, too. You think you have to know the book completely before you write it but it doesn't work that way. Everything that you are learning and everything that you know doesn't mean anything to anyone unless you are going to do something with it."
To make matters worse, he then listed all the things I had been dabbling in, both for fun and profit, since leaving my prior career. With my newly awakened entrepreneurialism added to all my prior avocational interests, my lis
Many of the images you see everyday in magazines, direct mail materials, and commercials are filled with digital stock photographs. Stock photographs are those taken by professional photographers and then distributed to users for a fee.Digital photos are taken with digital cameras and can be easily modified and edited with the appropriate software. These photos are used by advertisers who know that a good picture can translate into product sales. No one knows just why human beings respond so well to pictures, but the effects have been proven.If you use digital stock photos to sell your product or idea, you will find that your message will be strongly reinforced by the visual method of presentation. Additionally, business stock photos create a professional image for your business, which helps you make a sale even before you start to talk to a potential buyer.
My husband knows me very well and followed my river of unspoken thoughts to its logical conclusion while I casually ate my dinner and waited for him to finish reading. Once he reached the end, he calmly placed the paper on the table, looked me in the eye and said "No, you cannot open a restaurant in our home." All attempts to deny that I had been seriously entertaining the thought were met with patient silence and that knowing look that told me I was fooling no one.
Then he asked the Question of Death: "When are you going to do what you are really supposed to be doing and write your book?"
"Whaaaa, but I don't know what the book is."
"Yes you do. You know the one after that, too. You think you have to know the book completely before you write it but it doesn't work that way. Everything that you are learning and everything that you know doesn't mean anything to anyone unless you are going to do something with it."
To make matters worse, he then listed all the things I had been dabbling in, both for fun and profit, since leaving my prior career. With my newly awakened entrepreneurialism added to all my prior avocational interests, my lis
Jack, downsized from his last job, was frozen in a place called Apathy. Had been for months now. Knew he had to get moving, had to find a job, but … just couldn’t seem to get his act together. Oh, he’d tried … a little. But his lack of immediate success just made him that much more apathetic.Listless, almost indifferent, he dithered, wasting time on unrelated tasks. Found excuses not to move forward. Procrastinated … and hated himself for it. His family and friends tried to be supportive, but that only seemed to deepen his gloomy outlook. He was stuck.Getting Back in the GameSound familiar? If so, read on … there are things you can do to quickly get unstuck!Irrational fear, not the lack of ability or opportunity, is the usual cause of apathy during a job search. Sometimes we fear we are too old, too inexper
Then he asked the Question of Death: "When are you going to do what you are really supposed to be doing and write your book?"
"Whaaaa, but I don't know what the book is."
"Yes you do. You know the one after that, too. You think you have to know the book completely before you write it but it doesn't work that way. Everything that you are learning and everything that you know doesn't mean anything to anyone unless you are going to do something with it."
To make matters worse, he then listed all the things I had been dabbling in, both for fun and profit, since leaving my prior career. With my newly awakened entrepreneurialism added to all my prior avocational interests, my lis
Travel a lot on business?Wish you could breeze into a town with a briefcase and laptop and have an office ready for you? That’s not as farfetched as it sounds. Not if you know about executive suites and how they operate.Executive suites is a term used to describe rental offices in cities all over the U.S. and abroad. They are also referred to as ‘shared office space’. However, neither the term ‘executive suites’ or ‘shared office space’ really describes what this unique form of office space is all about.To begin with, executive suites are not the domain of CEO’s or top corporate executives. Nor is the term ‘shared office space’ intended to suggest that you will actually be sharing office space with another business.The first thing you do is contact an executive suites provider in your area. You can generally find one near you by doing a
To make matters worse, he then listed all the things I had been dabbling in, both for fun and profit, since leaving my prior career. With my newly awakened entrepreneurialism added to all my prior avocational interests, my list of pursuits had grown to absolutely ridiculous proportions. After a long history of job burnout and a passionate desire to create an ideal life, I had somehow stumbled into a love affair with one distraction after another.
Yes, my little entrepreneurial chickadees, it does take one to know one. I do understand what it is like to live with a brain that keeps churning out an endless stream of ideas for business and pleasure. I suspect true entrepreneurs are born and not made and that it simply will not be possible for people wired this way to control their flow of ideas. Nor should they.
There is, however, an art to recognizing which ideas are simply bright and shiny distractions and which are actually worth pursuing. I offer you a few points for consideration to help you on your way:
Be honest with yourself and your feelings about success. Entrepreneurs can be incredibly resistant to commitment, always wondering if a better, cooler, more fun and interesting idea is about to come along. Is it possible you may hold yourself back from commitment because success in one arena may limit your ability to play in other areas of your creative sandbox? What has been the payoff in not letting any of your ideas take the lead position? What will help you pick the "right" idea to put your energy behind?
On this last point, I'd suggest giving serious consideration to the idea that has been coming up over and over again in every list, journal and master plan you have written down in the last ten or twenty years. You know the one. It may appear in different clothes from time to time, but the basic idea or theme always shows up. Maybe you want to promote wellness in some form or fashion. Maybe your interest lies in the arena of social change. Maybe you are always making order out of chaos and like creating environments to suit certain
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