The transition from a corporate career into a solo owner practice can be an overwhelming experience given the varied disciplines involved that fall outside your experience zone. You likely didn’t realize how dependent you were on your IT, marketing, operations, branding, sales, accounting, legal, HR, web, and other team members who allowed you to focus […]
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Investing in Building Your Solo Practice
Have you launched or are you wanting to start a coaching, consulting, training, or speaking practice, but the reality of all that’s involved has you overwhelmed or stuck? Yikes. How do you prevent your fears, doubts, and busyness from casting a dark shadow over your calling, purpose, and vision?
A Moment to Invest
Our March theme is Investing. On page 60 of The On-Purpose Person, the man visits with Perry, the “retired” executive who is coaching him. Perry says, “On-Purpose Persons invest our time rather than spend it.” With a nod to Perry, let’s explore this via my poem below. A Moment to Invest by Kevin W. McCarthy […]
On Loving, Part 4: The Greatest Revelation
What if you had to distill everything you know that is wise, good, and useful into a single paragraph. It had to apply to your career and business. Let’s call this your greatest revelation–your gift to all. That’s what The Greatest Commandment is! Better yet, clarifying your 2-word purpose enriches it from being generalized into a personally and professionally specifically applicable statement of precious value and extreme usefulness.
On Loving: Part 3: Loving and Legalism
You’ve likely heard “Life doesn’t come with a manual.” Actually, it does, and The Greatest Commandment is the condensed version.
On Loving, Part 2: The God, Self, Others Relationship
Today let’s step beyond the Self to explore the working dynamics of God, Self, and Others.