My Kind of Revolution
August 22, 2010
It’s a quiet movement, but it’s gaining momentum. It stays mainly under the radar, but every so often people not in the movement catch a glimpse and remark on it as a fad or trend. But it is no fad. It is no trend. It is a revolution, a revolution in how we see work and its place in our lives.
It is a revolution in our definition of “business.” No longer will everyone nod in acquiescence when someone says the only purpose of a business is to make money. To the revolutionaries, whose number is growing, the purpose of a business is to be a vehicle for them to share their gifts and talents with the world. It is their opportunity to display their personalities and express their values. It is their way to be socially responsible members of society. For some of us, running a small business is a rigorous program for self-development and even spiritual growth.
We are having a party, a happy and possibly noisy festival to celebrate the empowerment and the freedom that come from self-employment. We are going to share our victories and our strategies for surmounting obstacles. We are going to ramp up the creativity and challenge each other to set bigger goals and make bigger plans. We are going to help each other rediscover the purpose of work as dedicating ourselves to doing what we are gifted at, what we love, what we were born to do.
This is my kind of revolution.
Twirp with Barbara 2009-10-15
October 15, 2009
Barbara Winter is on Twitter at JoblessMuse. If you’re on Twitter, follow her and you’ll like Twitter much more. If you’re not on Twitter, it’s worth signing up to get Barbara’s twirps.
Like this one. She pointed us to a poem about clutter. Clutter resonates with me, because I am constantly behind the curve clearing it out. And, like the poet, I believe there’s a lot of meaning under all that clutter.
Check out “What Lies Beneath”.
Viaggio con Barbara 2009-10-12
October 12, 2009
Lately I have been pulling together information and ideas for a series of three calls I will offer along with Lisa Tarrant for people in the Outside the Job Box Career Design Consultant program offered by Valerie Young at ChangingCourse.com. In Valerie’s program people learn the approach she has used for years as a creative career and small business design consultant.
The purpose of the calls will be to help the self-study participants get very clear about their vision for the future, specifically what they want their work to look like as a creative career consultant. Then we’re going to talk about how to define specific goals to reach the vision, and break the goals into achievable steps. I want the participants to stay focused on their plans so they can establish and grow their businesses.
Since I’m gathering resources to offer the consultants in training, I was thrilled, but not surprised, to see a recent post by Jobless Muse Barbara Winter titled Building a Hothouse for Your Dreams. Barbara is gifted at nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit. She knows the key to growing small businesses is to grow small business owners. Here she offers eight keys entrepreneurs can use for lifelong growth.
Viaggio con Barbara 09-29-09
September 29, 2009
Traveling with Barbara Winter seems to be a lot more positive experience than traveling with me. I am known by a couple of people for the surprising number of clowns driving around in old minivans – full makeup and costume – I seem to attract, as well as odd people overly eager to tell their strange tales. Barbara seems to be able to attract wonderful encounters with interesting, caring people, even while flying. Read a couple of happy travel experiences here.
I bet I’m not the only person who has procrastinated and come closing to missing out on Barbara Winter’s very special offer of free shipping on orders for the revised and updated edition of her book Making A Living Without A Job. I just recently place my order for a couple of copies, and I plan to buy one the next time I visit the Barnes & Noble library.
Order directly from Barbara by October 1st and shipping is free. Buy an extra copy or two because you’re going to want to give one as a gift, and then you’ll loan one out and forget who has it and need another copy.
Order your copies by clicking here.
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