Year: 2009
What is your surprising talent that you don’t even know you have?
If you’d told me in 2007 that my art would both inspire people and be a big boost to my business, I would have thought you were smoking crack! “Art? Me? Puh-lese. I ain’t no artist, and who needs or has time for art when you’re on the corporate / entrepreneur tracks?” My art was a talent that came out of nowhere…
(Video) Private Live Event in LA: “Play, Purpose & Power: Chart Your Course For 2010 & Beyond”
If you resonate with what I’ve been sharing here on PebbleStorm (www.PebbleStorm.com/about) and how I live my own life, you are meant for more – to play a bigger game in life, to have more fun and success in work, to make more money and to make a huge impact in the world (mine: I’m…
My 10-Step Morning Personal Success Routine (What’s Yours?)
Subscribe To PebbleStorm via email One my essential entrepreneurial practices is a morning Personal Success Routine (“PSR”), that is my foundation for the day. If you don’t have one or you never consciously designed it – you need one. If you have one, I’d love to hear about yours in the comments. I’ve found that…
The Art Of PebbleStorm & CEOFlow (as of Fall 2009)
In July I spoke at a Meeting Of The Minds event in Southern California. MOTMs was started by Kurt Daradics of FreedomSpeaks and Baron Miller, and is a great group of entrepreneurial people that meets monthly. I had fun sharing with them last night! The format was casual (more of an interview) and not a…
Reinventing Work With A PebbleStorm Treasure Map Hike
This summer, a group of PebbleStorm entrepreneurs got together for a “Treasure Map Hike” in Topanga Canyon. We began the day with a guided visualization, then started hiking. Along the way we picked up pirate toys, new friends and great ideas! Some lasting friendships and business partnerships have come from that one fun day. The…
Free PebbleStorm “Lessons Learned” Webinar Recording
If you could go back and give “yourself-of-six-months-ago” advice around working, and specifically around how to find your purpose while having more success and fun with work, what would you tell yourself? What three pieces of advice would you share? Yes, this is me around 4 years old. If I could only go back in…
9 Ways To Have Fun Creating Videos For Your Business (+ 3 New PebbleStorm Intro Videos)
Subscribe To PebbleStorm Updates via email Yesterday the Amazing Onna and I had some fun recording video, which can be fun if you don’t take it too seriously 🙂 Have you ever felt blocked from doing something you felt you should do? I mean, blocked for MONTHS? I find that happens to me all the…
Two September Adventures: An Impromptu First Burning Man Trip and Hoffman
Subscribe To PebbleStorm Updates via email My First Burning Man The Friday before last (Aug 31), I made an executive decision to go to Burning Man the next night – Sat Sept 1. I did the 24-hour mad scramble, and made it 🙂 I went up with an internet and legal entrepreneur Alexis Martin Neely…
Example “Invitation To Inspiration” Visuals: Play Into Love & Heart-of-Hearts
Subscribe To PebbleStorm Updates via email While people in PebbleStorm are working on all kinds of projects – internet, coaching and more (like George Kao’s “Effective Social Media Marketing with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn”), Erin and Hong-Anh here have created a couple of great images that I wanted to share first as a complement to…
Invitation To Inspiration: A F-ree PebbleStorm Call For Entrepreneurs Looking For More Clarity or Enjoyment
Been wanting a taste of PebbleStorm or even just looking for some inspiration? Join us on Wednesday for some inspiration! It’s a fun call on “Sharing Some Simple Success Stories”… I have a PebbleStorm program running with about 15 people in it. I kicked it off at the PebbleStorm Launch (“Thanks For Making The World…
How To Apply For A Free CEOFlow Coaching Session
Know any CEOs juggling life, employees and the world, who are feeling overwhelmed and uncertain? I have a great opportunity for both you and the person that refers them to me…keep reading… CEOFlow is my coaching program for CEOs. I saw, from being a CEO, working with them and knowing many of them, that it’s…
How Money Can Mess Up And Help Your Unique Genius
For people working on discovering their Unique Genius, this quote is so perfect: “Make peace with outrageous abundance. You are more likely to have a pure vibration and attract more abundance if you leave money out of the equation. But it isn’t because money is the “root of all evil.” It’s because it messes up…
Four Core PebbleStorm Programs Have Emerged
If you haven’t seen the updated PebbleStorm homepage links at the top of the blog – take a look. It’s been really interesting leaving myself open to letting things evolve on their own, and then watching ideas and programs snap into place on their own! The Programs & Roadmap A) Feed Your Freedom “FYF” I’ve…
14 Simple Ways To Inject Enjoyment Into Work
PebbleStorm is about making work enjoyable in every way: what you do, how you do it, who you do it with… (and of course, how all that enjoyment translates into making more money more easily). So while the most important part of making money through enjoyment is discovering your Unique Genius and translating it into…
Your Work + Adventure Suggestions?
Lowell Winer (a very cool guy starting a very interesting happiness-related tech company) and I were talking about going someplace adventurous to work from for a couple of weeks, as some of us did last year in Kauai: More Kauai pictures on Facebook We threw around some ideas. and I think the middle east came…
How You Can Get Into The Heads Of Other PebbleStormers
The picture is from a casual get together of some PebbleStormers in Northern California, at Cafe Gratitude in Potrero Hill (yum!!). From the left, we have online marketing and relationships guru Paul “Irish” Hegarty, social media expert George “TwitterBiz” Kao, Erin “Big Cheese” Halling, Hong-Anh “Love Bug” Ha, and Katrina “Needs a Nickname” Wong (suggestions…
Perfectionism – an Enjoyment Enemy
Follow me on Twitter (By the way, the picture is from a PebbleStorm Treasure Map Hike on Sunday in LA…hence the eyepatch!). Below is an excerpt from an email I sent to the PebbleStorm group going through the “Come Play With Us” program. I’m posting it for two reasons: to practice non-perfectionism (is that a…
5 Questions with Aaron Ross: How to Make $ and the Most Out of Life! (Genius.com post)
I just did a blog post for Genius.com touching on making money through enjoyment, leadgen and “Seeds, Nets & Spears”, ColdCalling2.com, and more… Today I ask five questions of Aaron Ross. Aaron is an original and was one of the original sales guys at salesforce.com. While at salesforce.com, he invented Cold Calling 2.0 for his…
A Visual Business Plan v2.0 (Updated w/Video)
My mind can’t process classic “business plans” (you know, the 20 page Word documents with marketing and sales plans, financing plans, planning the plan plans…) About a year ago, I sketched out a Visual/Circular Business Plan. Now, since I’m introducing the idea to my PebbleStorm “Come Play With Me” group, and now I’ve updated…
Playing with video blogs…Cabo San Lucas & Sunday morning at home
I’m playing with video snippets to share on the blog…here are the first couple: April 9, 2009: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Cabo Trip Pictures on Facebook) Easter Sunday, April 12 2009: at home in Santa Monica, CA Subscribe to the PebbleStorm Blog by Email Join the PebbleStorm Group on Facebook Follow me on Twitter