Sincerely yours…

Last night, my husband suggested we go to our local brew pub for a burger and a beer. I had planned on cooking and while the outing is cheap, I was also in my “conserve at all costs” mode. Still, it sounded really good and I agreed. Reaching across the table, he grabbed both ofContinue reading “Sincerely yours…”

It’s all about the hustle…

It’s the hustle. It’s always the hustle. As I started this week, there were three areas of my life that needed help: my work pipeline was incredibly small, the house needed a good cleanup from being ignored as we finished renovations and my psyche was feeling a little bruised from it all. It felt aContinue reading “It’s all about the hustle…”

Figuring it all out…

So, yesterday I got some bad news for my microbusiness. It appears that the major thing I was hanging my hat on – a federal grant writing opportunity – may not come in anytime soon. Yikes! That was the bulk of my early consulting work. But on the flipside… . Well, I didn’t make theContinue reading “Figuring it all out…”

What success looks like…

When I was a CEO, I used to ask a question that drove my staff nuts: what does success look like? Whenever we would start a project, I would ask those five little words, mostly to groans, eye rolls and a few half-hearted laughs. It became our running joke and I rolled with it. DeepContinue reading “What success looks like…”