It started early yesterday morning. The cell phone never seems to be more than three feet from me, even when I'm sleeping at night. Especially at night. Its incredibly loud ringing shattered my sleep about an hour before the alarm was set to go off. The phone is always set on the loudest … Read more about How to Stay on Course During Life’s Storms
How to Make Blogging Make Money For You
A while back Trevor Hampel left a comment on my 5 Reasons Why I Blog post that has stuck with me. Trevor shared with us 5 reasons he blogs. But he added a footnote to his last reason. Here's what he said: I need the money. (What money? Show me the money) I've been thinking about that for a … Read more about How to Make Blogging Make Money For You
Make People Like You More with 1 Simple 4 Step Formula Guaranteed to See Success
Business is about people. Business Blogging is also about people. Some of you reading this are thinking, "No it isn't. Business is about money (then a few might even add) you idiot!" If you are one of the folks thinking that, I say you are wrong. Here's why. If you get the people, the money … Read more about Make People Like You More with 1 Simple 4 Step Formula Guaranteed to See Success
5 Reasons Why I Blog
In a new twist on an old theme, Robert Hruzek has tagged me and asked me to share 5 reasons why I blog. One of my favorite questions as a kid was, "Why?" And this new meme applies that question in an interesting approach to the simple idea of sharing some things about yourself that others may … Read more about 5 Reasons Why I Blog
Maintaining Your Blogging Passion
One of the things we talked about at the conference on Friday was about blogging from your personal passion. Passion and interest are the fuel that will keep you going when the luster of the "new thing" that blogging is when you get started wears off. One of the participants asked a valid … Read more about Maintaining Your Blogging Passion
Community in Business – Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company
A Different Kind of StoryThis is not a post about the success of business blogging. Nor is it about a company with a tremendous web presence. Instead, the story of the Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company is one about community. And business. It's about how you can become much more successful … Read more about Community in Business – Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company
A Moment To Focus on What Really Matters
Gorgeous and I are heading out of town for a while, taking a much needed break. This year we decided to mix it up a little so instead of spending a day braving our nation's air travel industry we are driving. From Savannah to Wisconsin. Here's to hoping for good weather! We decided to drive this … Read more about A Moment To Focus on What Really Matters
The Christmas Stories
We're going to shift gears for a moment here at SuccessCREEations because Christmas is one of those holidays when many folks travel to see family. Generosity is a little more acceptable during the Christmas season than at other times during the year. All kinds of interesting things can happen to … Read more about The Christmas Stories
Facing the Fighters
This past Monday (a day that will hence forth be known here at SuccessCREEations as Black Monday because of our server crash) I posted about Business Fighting Styles. In the discussion that followed a couple of cool things happened. First Grigor Ćorić suggested someone I'd left off my list, the … Read more about Facing the Fighters
A SuccessCREEations Christmas Thank You Gift
We're a relatively young blog here at SuccessCREEations. While I started blogging a while back, S-C didn't come into being until the Get Started post on 23 August which, if my reckoning is correct is almost exactly 4 months ago. We've come a long way in that third of a year. First the boring … Read more about A SuccessCREEations Christmas Thank You Gift
Life Lessons From 2006
Ben Yoskovitz has a group writing project under way over at the Instigator Blog asking the question, "What did you learn this year?" Whew! Talk about a big question! I mean I learned lots of things this year. Some of them were relatively insignificant yet very practical. For example I … Read more about Life Lessons From 2006
Success Principle # 11 – Keeping Your Head In the Game
It's been an interesting ride on this trip to Chicago. I've had the TV on quite a bit here in the hotel room. And for the record television is a horrible companion.But yesterday I caught some snippets of a movie set in Australia. It centered on a couple of competitive swimmers working toward … Read more about Success Principle # 11 – Keeping Your Head In the Game