People often say to me, “I don’t know how you get so much done. You write a weekly ezine. That’s a lot of work. I don’t have time to do something like that. How do you do it?”

So today I want to talk about the 3 things I’ve done to make writing weekly essays an almost easy process. The three things are:

1) Starting with the Struggle

2) Perfecting the Process

3) Producing Consistently

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Growing client is like growing cherries. It requires time, patience, passion, and perseverance.

But in a culture where everything is supposed to happen fast, it’s easy to give up growing something new before it really gets started.

The 8-year-old cherry tree in my backyard perfectly illustrates this point. When I moved into my house 4 years ago, the tree hadn’t yet flowered or grown cherries. Read the rest of this entry »

As a professional graphic designer I often notice solopreneurs making several mistakes in their visual communications. While these mistakes won’t bring about the end of the world, they may confuse your reader and send them elsewhere, leading to a lower return on your investment than you deserve. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week I wrote about a sleeping dream that inspired a year-long marketing program, a creative discovery process, a book and many articles for my ezine. In the end that one dream helped me generate over $40,000 in income. (And that was just from one dream!)

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Before I reveal the secret details of my personal goal setting process and the success (or lack thereof) of my work in 2009, I need to clarify something:

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