A Creative Businessperson is a crossbreed. You’re part artist and part moneymaker. As an artist, you are driven to express your authenticity. To do that, every artist necessarily opens him or herself up… to feel. Moneymaking, on the other hand, is all about being a pragmatist, a strategist and a go-getter. There’s not much room [...]
I had the a really fun time writing an article for Karen Gunton over at Build a Little Biz. She has a great sense of humor and an awesome website that aims at helping entrepreneurs, particularly mompreneurs. So what better to contribute but the thing that moms need the most: TIME. The article was well [...]
I had the fantastic pleasure of writing a rather extensive piece on how to stay on track with your goals for my dear friend Joyce M Washington, the owner of The Common Cents, an accounting service for entrepreneurs. She’s kind of a rebel herself when she talks about the prevailing accounting practices: “Just because that’s [...]
Ta-da! I was published on the long-running blog “Five Rules for Life” last week. It was a lot of fun writing this piece, I’m reprinting a slightly edited version below. To see the original post on Five Rule’s site, go here. When distilling life rules, I have to generalize. This means these rules are applicable [...]
Adele can be fat. Obama can be black and have a Muslim name. Madonna can sell her sex. Monks can eat meat. My name can start with an X! I have been giving this bio forever: My name is Xin Gu. It’s pronounced SHIN. I am Chinese. I came here when I was 12. I’ve [...]
One of the hardest things to do is to stay focused when you have a ton of tasks competing for your attention. We all experience this from time to time, though this plight hits creative folks and entrepreneurs a bit harder. Why? Because this is the same brain process that facilitates the creative process. To [...]
Everybody stresses. It’s a fact. Now, I can tell you two things for sure: 1) whatever it is you are stressed about, you’ll be much more capable of tackling it if you are in a neutral state of mind; 2) you don’t need spa, and you don’t need to hit the bar or the gym [...]
So one of the things I tout in my biz is I can dissect your blocks very quickly. People think it’s quite amazing that I have that ability. It’s actually something you can train yourself to do too. It’s just a matter of really listening. I’ll give you an example. Last night I was in [...]
Tooting my own horn here for a moment. I was quoted in an article recently in empowerHer.com. Thought I’d share it here. You can find the original here. Here’s the re-post of the article. Share the article please, and chat with me in Comments! Thankfulness and Positive Mental Health By Rheyanne Weaver Created 11/24/2011 – [...]
There are books out there about success, products out there promising happiness. In my humble opinion, there is a much more direct route to obtaining all these good stuff in life by going deeper. You see, I’m a bang-for-your-buck kinda gal. In my model of the world, efficiency comes high on the list. If I [...]