Do you have breakthrough days? I woke yesterday morning just knowing it was going to be a breakthrough day. Since writing about radical thinking about a month ago I have been busting my butt and hustling to put systems in place so that my life and my business do not need me all day everyday. It's … [Read more...]
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Radical Thinking Results In More Time
This is a follow-up to the action item at the end of my More Time Through Radical Thinking post. Action Item: On a quiet morning grab a cup of coffee and a blank sheet of paper. Write a list of ten things you would stop doing “if you could.” It does not matter how impossible it seems to stop doing … [Read more...]
More Time Through Radical Thinking
If you are like me you need more time and energy to sustain all the wonderful projects and relationships in your life. Until recently my own linear thinking had me believing the conventional wisdom that time and energy are finite. Neither assumption is true. Let me explain. Recently while loading … [Read more...]
9/11 – There are no guarantees
I've only blogged about the horror that 9/11 was, once that I can remember. I'm a far different person than I was when I wrote In Memory Of three years ago. So, from the ashes of my experiences around 9/11 rises a Phoenix of hope. Hope tempered with the reality that life offers no … [Read more...]
Life Needs a Compelling Why – What's Yours?
My "why" is making JimRaffel.com the best blog I can. Writing for this blog everyday is following my passion. That passion is what drives my desire to find ways to make ColorMetrix more successful with less and less of my time. I've managed to reduce my ColorMetrix work week to about 50 hours (down … [Read more...]
9 Books That Inspire Me
I assembled this list of nine books to provide a sense of the sources of inspiration that have led me to write about real, authentic and sustainable living. One book is queued up and ready to be read. Two are in various states of being read at the same time which has led to several interesting blog … [Read more...]
Produce and Ship Daily
With the release of Seth Godin's Linchpin (which I have yet to read) there has been a whole lot of buzz in the Blogosphere about "shipping it." It's good talk folks about the need to produce deliverable product each day and you should be paying close attention if you are not already doing so. Ask … [Read more...]
Smiles and Patience Part II
Your ability to shift or totally eliminate the point at which you become completely frustrated and quit will dramatically improve your life. I have always been good at the not quitting part (perhaps to a fault). You don't stay self employed for almost 15 years without that tenacity. On the … [Read more...]