When I started this blog, I thought I’d be talking to the parents of my students.
Instead, it’s turned out to be a lot of entrepreneurs and creatives. And that led me to start coaching and consulting with said entrepreneurs and creatives, which has become a career that I’m really enjoying.
But I’ve resisted going all in on gearing my topics exclusively to the small business owners who might be prospective clients.
Read MoreI listen to a lot of podcasts. While doing the dishes, folding the laundry, mowing the lawn, walking or driving, podcasts are my go-to for education, entertainment, and connection when I’m alone.
I also read books, watch videos, and take courses. I enjoy these experiences until, just like the tail end of a meal, I am done. I don’t want any more.
Read MoreWe were celebrating our second vaccine dose with a trip to the only Chick-fil-A in Maine when we spied a quote from founder S. Truett Cathy on a chalkboard on the wall of the restaurant.
It said, “We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.”
Contrarian that I am, I immediately wondered whether this assertion was true. In other words, did I agree with the late Mr. Cathy (Georgian, evangelical Christian, entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist)?
Read MoreI have an ongoing text conversation with my cousin in which we seek to solve the problems of the universe…or at the very least, our own.
Recently, we observed how out of balance we can get if we follow advice meant for someone with a dramatically different temperament. “I don’t think everything is healed by action,” I said. “Rest is important. But probably if you’re a person who is constantly resting, you need more action.”
Read MoreMy Brother, My Brother, & Me, a long-running podcast from brothers Justin, Travis, & Griffin McElroy, bills itself as “an advice show for the modern era” (Justin always pronounces it “modren”).
But this is not an advice show. It is a cleverly executed improv comedy show. The brothers field listener-submitted requests for advice along with selected Yahoo! Answers questions, offering deeply outlandish solutions to the problems presented. For instance, a question from a server in a restaurant about how to accommodate a guest who orders something that isn’t on the menu leads to speculation that perhaps the guest is a ghost who must return every week to the same restaurant until he is given his requested meal and is then gratefully “banished to the hell dimension” in a puff of vapor.
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