Turning points.

A client of mine has been going through a hard. Some seriously menacing dragons showed up in her space to breathe fire at her. And they wouldn’t let her build a castle. It was crappy. We decided that we would outwit the video game by not doing any of the normal...

Ringing the bell.

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there’s a restaurant* called the Gandy Dancer. I’d link to it but they play outstandingly annoying music on their website.** Trust me. Anyway. The name is a slang term for early railroad workers. And the restaurant itself is right...

The Gracious No.

I’ve been working pretty much non-stop on this for a couple years now. I’ve written about how stuckified I can get with saying NO. And composed so many Very Personal Ads asking for help finding that elusive, gracious NO. Because that’s what I want:...

Ten myths of biggification

So yes. While I do talk a lot about biggification, the whole thing started as a joke. When I launched this site nearly five years ago, I read piles of business advice, only to start really losing patience. The neverending litany of think big think big just felt so...

When visibility leads to safety.

So last week I wrote about sneaking into visibility. Which means: everything you do (including unlikely invisibility hacks) to help you feel safe while still letting your right people find you. And since the post was already about all things sneakified, I sneakily...

You don’t need to have a thing.

A lovely comment from Julie in last week’s post about sneaking into visibility reminded me about a bunch of questions I’ve been meaning to answer. Like “What if I don’t have a thing?” And “What if I don’t know what my thing...
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