Important Reminder! Don’t Forget to Plant Your Business Garden!

Important! Don't Forget To Plant Your Business Garden!

Here in Chicagoland, we went from a freezing windy Mother’s Day weekend of thirty degree temperatures to a balmy, humid eighty degrees day on Tuesday. We went to bed with the heat on Monday night and turned on the air-conditioning by mid-day on Tuesday. Such is the crazy life we lead in the Midwest. With frost [...]

The Problem with Digging a Hole to China

The Problem with Digging A Hole To China

My first entrepreneurial partnership taught me critical lessons about business. My business partner, Randy, was a charismatic, fearless, energetic young man, with giant ideas and the drive to achieve them.  His art of persuasion and sales techniques were perfected at an early age and as he discussed his business proposition with me, I recall being [...]

The Importance of Sanctuary In Your Creative Business

The Importance of Sanctuary In Your Creative Business

Stop for a second and take a look around you right now. Where are you? Are you at home in a comfortable clean environment surrounded by items that you love,with talismans that inspire you to create the world that you desire to live in? Or are you buried under clutter and chaos, dust and unattractive [...]

How Your Creative Project is Like a Beating Drum

How Your Project Is Like Beating a Drum

I’m in love with Phillip Phillip’s new song, Gone, Gone Gone. So much so, that when I have time to just sit for a few moments, I click it on my playlist on Spotify or You Tube  and listen to it over and over again, and then  one more time, and okay, I admit it, [...]

The 7 Entrepreneaurial Freedoms

The 7 Entrepreneurial Freedoms

Why do people become entrepreneurs in the first place? There are many reasons, but get a group of entrepreneurs together in one place and the number one answer you will hear is FREEDOM. But what does freedom look like to creative entrepreneurs? Well that might surprise you. After all, not all freedoms were created alike. For your [...]