motivation

This week I talk about setting goals and actually achieving them, with tips on how to stay the course after you set goals. You can get the podcasts through iTunes as well. Listen here: Resources…

This week I talk about how to change your attitude if it's starting to go south. A good attitude is crucial to work-at-home success, but it can be hard to stay positive when things don't always go as planned. You can get the podcasts…

What is NaNoWriMo, you ask? It stands for National Novel Writing Month, which occurs in November when millions of people take on the ridiculous task of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. Never mind that second only to December, November is…

I wish I could bottle and sell success. I'd be rich and so would so many other people. The problem with achieving success working at home is that people focus on the wrong things. I get email all the time from people wanting me to tell them…

Initially, I wanted to work at home to be with my children. Now that they are older, people ask if I plan to go "back to work". After I get over the annoyance at the insinuation that what I do at home isn't work, I tell them no. I've worked…

You're busy. You don't have a lot of time. I know what that feels like. I too feel like I can't add one more thing to my schedule, and yet this month, while committing to finishing two books that should have been done months ago, I've…

At the Beachpreneur's Lifestyle Conference, Rachel Martin of FindingJoy.net discussed how we use excuses to keep us from our goals. I agree with her in that excuses are one of the biggest obstacles to achieving success. In my experience in…

You hear this analogy a lot for the lottery, but it’s true in working at home as well. This point was reiterated by a member of a panel I sat on at the Virginia Festival of the Book. Don Fry, author of Writing Your Way: Creating a Writing…

Talk to someone who is living the life you’d like to live and odds are they are an avid reader. At any given time, I'm reading several books, all of which have little sticky notes or digital annotations in my e-reader in sections I want to…

Thoreau said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." I get depressed just reading that. Worse still is that it's true. So many people trudge through life doing a job they…