How I landed an amazing job (without even knowing I wanted it)

How I landed an amazing job (without even knowing I wanted it)

Last summer, a professional colleague of mine approached me and asked me to consider serving as the interim Executive Director for The National Needlearts Association (TNNA – the trade organization for needle arts professionals).  Now that I’ve...
Why I started the Small Biz Book Club

Why I started the Small Biz Book Club

Starting in April, I’ll be facilitating a read-along study of Brandscaping, by Andrew M. Davis. Reading this book earlier in 2016 actually inspired me to start this new venture: the Small Biz Book Club. Content is King One of the main concepts in Brandscaping is...
How to Stop Failing at Meeting Your Goals

How to Stop Failing at Meeting Your Goals

Setting goals is great – it feels so good to think about the future and make plans for the greatness you will achieve in the coming year. The hard part comes when you start looking back at the goals you set, and you realize you haven’t met any of them....
3 Ways to Improve your Knowledge Retention

3 Ways to Improve your Knowledge Retention

Have you ever had that sensation that you know something, but you can’t quite access the information in your memory banks? We’ve all been there, and it can be super frustrating. If you’d like to improve the way you retain & recall information,...
5 Reasons Books are the Bomb

5 Reasons Books are the Bomb

When you were a kid, there were probably several people in your life who encouraged you to read more: parents, teachers, librarians, etc. Now that you’re an adult, you have to make your own choices about how to spend your time (both leisure and working time),...