Category: 1. Reflect
5 Minute Sanity Check: Does Work Bring Out The Best Or The Worst In You?
Everyone who reads this blog (this means YOU) wants to help others or make a difference in some way – whether it’s before, during or after you make a pile of money. There’s greatness & happiness in you. So is your current work exposing that greatness and happiness, or discouraging it? Does your work make…
A Unique Genius “Ego Indulgement Exercise”
One of the keys to getting clear on your purpose and dream work is to be more selfish than you’ve ever been before – stop holding yourself back by playing small! You can small in all kinds of ways, such as the amount of money you want to make, the freedom you can have, or…
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…
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…
A “5th Work Option”
In 2007, while thinking quite a bit about what I wanted to do next in work and life, I realized along the way that what I wanted wasn’t among the most common work options you can jump into: A corporate job (working for someone else? Nah.) – I’m including “start a company that takes outside…
Are you on a Hamster Wheel?
How did you make your last career move decision, whether between companies or within a company? Are you considering a career move soon? Will you take the next step up (a promotion/upgrade in your current function) because it’s easy and will be more immediate money, or will you decide to look for a right, non-obvious…
“Drama-less success” presentation
In 2006 I gave this presentation to my old sales team when they asked me to come speak. Although it could use refreshing to make it more self-explanatory, its intention is still exactly on point for what I’m talking about today through PebbleStorm. It was one of those epiphany decks…it came to me in a…
The Original “Small Pebble, Big Wave” Self-Manifesto
Introduction: I wrote this to myself in August 2007, as I began defining what my ideal, perfect working world would be. This was the origin of PebbleStorm. What’s the equivalent “perfect work” description that you could write, or begin to write, to yourself? ——————————————————————– How can I make the biggest impact with the least effort?…