“Be with those who help your being,” advised Rumi. For me, that means spending time in the company of inspired entrepreneurs. If I can’t be in the same room with one, I will visit a Web site (Innocent

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Although my birthday doesn’t arrive until October 10, I received my first card last week.

The sender always remembers my anniversary and let’s me know they’re thinking about me. In fact, they started celebrating when we barely knew each

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Steven Pressfield’s blog post this week was called Just Show Up and talked about the importance of putting yourself in the arenas where you want to succeed. So simple. So easy to resist. 

In my early days of

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Orders for Making a Living Without a Job were piling up and my shipment was more than a week overdue. I called my publisher to see if they could track the order and learned that the shipping department was clogged

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When I moved to Minnesota, I had no idea that superb public radio was one of the benefits of living there. I also had no idea that I was crazy about Italian Baroque until I made MPR my companion. Having

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When I got home from my recent trip to Minnesota, there was a package waiting for me from Lands’ End. I’m not a big customer of theirs, but I’m a happy one. For starters, there’s their order department. Moments after

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During her freshman year in college, I got a call from my distraught daughter. She’d just heard from her bank and discovered she had an enormous overdraft fee. “Do you keep a balance in your checkbook?” I asked.

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