Consulting Case Study: How $19,000 becomes invisible

Question: If you were about to flush $19,000 down the drain, would you know it?

The question up there is a serious one. If there were a division of your company that brought in roughly $19,000 a month, would you keep it going? Shut it down? Would you even know it was pulling in that amount [...]

The truth about paying your dues and “getting lucky”

“Thanks for the offer, but I really just want to make it on my own steam.”
Have you ever heard that one before?
Better yet, have you ever felt like that or maybe even said it yourself? Ever feel that maybe you’d be abusing a relationship if you used it for a business connection?
It’s time to disabuse [...]

Are you one of the tractionless?

Caution : Integrity-check ahead

Most of us spend a good deal of our lives (if not all of it) going with the flow, being part of the crowd, meshing in with the world around us. It feels comfy, it feels safe and it feels social.
But fitting in is mostly useless.
If you want to be noticed and [...]

You’ll like what Ignite Living has planned for 2008

I’m sure I’m supposed to whip out some fancy metaphors here about it being a new year. That’s what writers do. Unfortunately all I can think of to say is that 2007 was good and 2008 will be even more gooder.
But that doesn’t do much good for you readers does it? You probably just want [...]

A Human’s Guide to Freelance Living – FREE New Ebook!

A Human’s Guide to Freelance Living – FREE ebook!
A Human’s Guide to Freelance Living is a short manifesto about staying sane, happy and productive as a freelancer.
It features tips on finding ideas, staying organized, getting clients and ultimately making money doing what you love.
A Human’s Guide to Freelance Living is simple. It was born [...]

5 Ways You Can Properly Set Attainable Goals

The hit me over the head with a frying pan obvious statement of the day is:
If you want to achieve your goals you’ve got to know what they are.

Every self-help guru will tell you that, but what they don’t tell you much about is how to set goals in the first place.
Sure, it’s easy to [...]

The Number One Way to Never Achieve Your Goals

Without a doubt there are effective ways to achieve your goals. There are also plenty of organization tools to help you. Software, special calendars, PDAs and notebooks all proliferate the “get things done” market today.
By all means, use them. But you’ll find they’ll be pretty useless if you don’t know one very essential rule first:
The [...]