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Do what you love vs. Love what you do

A reminder for us solopreneurs:

You have to do stuff you don’t naturally love… until you have enough money to do only what you love.

Building a business as a solopreneur involves a huge variety of tasks and projects, most of which you wouldn’t naturally have thought — “This was what I was looking forward to doing, day to day, with an authentic business!”

The stronger your passion and vision for what should be your ideal work, the stronger you’ll feel the gap. The destination seems so fa…

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a soulful perspective on goal-setting and deadlines - Joyful Productivity for soulpreneurs

A student very familiar with my content wrote this insightful comment:

“I’m seeing this pattern of mind setting up goals and plans, and especially times, to complete things. Then what tends to happen is that the plans get somehow thrown off… Things tend to start after the end of the arbitrary deadline.

I thought I just need to get better at doing things on time, but I learned in an inner voice retreat last week that what’s actually happening is that when the mind sets an arbitrary deadli…

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On a Regular Basis, Repost Your Old Best Content

Hearing a song you love on the radio, you might wish they played it again soon.

The same is true for your audience’s response to your best content :)

So it’s good to have a consistent rhythm of reposting your popular articles, videos, or podcast episodes.

This may give you some relief — you don’t have to keep creating new content forever! Although, it is good for your creativity/mental fitness to experiment sometimes :)

So in addition to occasionally exploring and creating new stuff, b…

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Not Inspired? Don’t Trust That Feeling. Use Your “Old” Ideas…

Ever captured an idea, only to revisit it a few days later and feel uninspired? You’re second-guessing your initial excitement.

“Maybe this wasn’t a good idea after all…”

This is quite normal, in my experience. We get that burst of brilliance when a new idea strikes. It feels important, sometimes even life-changing. But give it a few days, and that initial excitement often fades.

Novelty carries the feeling of brilliance — that moment when all this context from your past merges with a c…

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Content Ideas for Coaches & Facilitators

Coaches often tell me:

“I’m not a consultant or teacher, so I can’t create content.”

The assumption is that because coaches help clients find their own best answers (rather than the coach giving them answers), the coach shouldn’t be teaching or creating content.

This is certainly an example of a limiting belief ;-) and prevents many coaches from expanding their potential in business and creativity.

If you had a larger audience (grown through content sharing), you’d have more …

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