About: Molly Gordon
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Out on A Limb: Why You Should Pray for Your Clients.by Molly Gordon on May 6, 2013 You work hard to attract and serve clients, and then you are confronted with the reality of working with them from day to day. And that brings certain challenges that you won’t see talked about in most self-employment circles. 45 views |
3 Keys to Engaging Your Whole Self in a Profitable 2013.by Molly Gordon on May 3, 2013 If you’ve resolved to stop under-earning in 2013, my hat is off to you. Making that decision is huge—and I believe that you can live up to your resolution, provided you do three things. First, I have a request; as you read, sit with each of these keys and ponder what putting them into action [...] 101 views |
Serving Your Purpose: You Can’t Get There Unless There’s a “There” There.by Molly Gordon on May 1, 2013 A business purpose is a motivation, a reason for setting out on the journey. A destination is the end point of the journey. 46 views |
How to Stop Doing It All Without Losing Control of Your Business or Budget.by Molly Gordon on Jan 30, 2013 Get support before you think you need it. If you wait until you are completely overwhelmed, you won’t have the capacity to instruct, guide, and evaluate the help you get. 846 views |
Risk Getting Excited About How Rocking You Can Be.by Molly Gordon on Jan 29, 2013 I am suggesting that you open your heart and risk getting excited about how rocking you can be. 85 views |
Life is Short, Now is Infinite.by Molly Gordon on Jan 8, 2013 A few days ago I wrote a sticky note and put it on the kitchen counter. It said: “Harvest greens.” This morning I was on the verge of putting it off (again) in favor of more important things, when I saw how that choice could easily become a habit, and once again the greens would sit in the garden until they became tough and bitter. 325 views |
How to succeed when you aren’t a superhero, a rockstar or a guru.by Molly Gordon on Oct 11, 2012 What if thinking you should be a superhero or a rockstar or a guru is actually cramping your style, keeping you small? What if trying to do it all is ruining (harsh word, and it may be true) your biz? It’s worth thinking about. 979 views |
Authentic Marketing: What’s behind the Mask?by Molly Gordon on Jul 27, 2012 When it comes down to it, marketing is a mask through which the real you can shine. And that’s what your just-right clients want. If at times along the way you feel like you are impersonating yourself, that’s okay. Remember that you are practicing a new role and that one day it will be second nature. 301 views |
 Why Neediness Is Essential to Your Business.by Molly Gordon on Jul 21, 2012 In all of myth you won’t find a hero who isn’t needy. At the very least there is the need to complete the journey and attain the reward at journey’s end. Then there is the shadow side of heroism where marginalized aspects of the personality such as fear, need, and greed lurk. And self-employment is nothing if not a hero’s journey. 182 views |
Gratitude & the Power of Aspiring.by Molly Gordon on Jul 9, 2012 Notice what happens when you shift from requiring yourself to perfectly embody gratitude and other virtues to embracing and celebrating your heartfelt aspiration to embody them. 167 views |
Letting go of your story will set you free.by Molly Gordon on Jul 6, 2012 How’s your forgiveness quotient? When you know how to forgive skillfully, you conserve precious energy that you need to build, manage, and enjoy a thriving business. Forgiveness is the capacity to let go of our explanations of why and how we’ve been wronged. When we forgive, we’re not saying, “I like what you did and how it affects me.” We’re simply letting go of our explanation of the situation. That leaves us free to make the right choices for ourselves and our businesses without being entangled in dramas that may or may not be true. 376 views |
Why The Secret Hasn’t Made You a Millionaire.by Molly Gordon on Jun 18, 2012 This article goes against much of what passes for spiritual teaching these days. It says that succeeding (even modestly) is hard work. It also says you can do it, but not by exclusively spiritual means. Like the “Farmers’ Almanac,” “The Secret” is a hodgepodge of truth, partial truth, and myth. As such, it’s an incomplete map of how to get where you want to go. 931 views |
Why the Hardest Trust to Earn Is Your Own.by Molly Gordon on Jun 4, 2012 Trust can be a problem for accidental entrepreneurs, have you noticed? We may worry about whether a bookkeeper is honest, a website designer competent, or a client happy. Many of us also worry about how we come across. What does the bookkeeper think about how we spend our money? Is our web designer rolling her eyes when we phone with a question? What will our clients think when we raise our fees or change our schedules? But trust is hardest to earn in the most important relationship of all: the relationship we have with ourselves. 391 views |
Three reasons why I think you really ought to make a profit.by Molly Gordon on May 5, 2012 … 273 views |
The Deep Practicality of Radical Self-Knowledge.by Molly Gordon on Apr 28, 2012 The most practical thing you can do when you work for yourself is to know your soul purpose or what I call your life project. 260 views |
Why Personal Transformation Is the Secret to Making a Profit.by Molly Gordon on Apr 13, 2012 This article is for anyone who feels trapped in a cycle of under-earning and doesn’t know an honorable way to get out. It’s for people who aren’t in it for the money, and yet want to thrive. It’s for people who are frustrated or turned off by marketing and sales practices that are aggressive, elitist, and manipulative. It’s for you if you refuse to value profit over people or principles. 827 views |
How to Use Hard Times to Cultivate a New Harvest.by Molly Gordon on Mar 23, 2012 Success has seasons Every gardener knows better. To every thing there is a season, and planting out of season is folly. Learn to recognize the arrival of autumn and to make the most of the turning seasons. This is how to be ready when spring returns. 231 views |
What the World Needs Now… Is a Generous Helping of Self Promotion.by Molly Gordon on Feb 17, 2012 Conscious, authentic self promotion is a generous act. When we accept the challenge of “putting ourselves out there” as a call to deeper engagement rather than shallow manipulation, we are putting our small selves on the line for the sake of something bigger than we can imagine. 521 views |
Do you struggle with the ethics of making a profit?by Molly Gordon on Feb 10, 2012 When we don’t charge enough for our services or products and run our businesses on minimal resources, the impression we make on others is not that we offer help but that we need help. Most of us don’t really want anything that is not freely and enthusiastically given. Design your business practices so that you deliver your work with authentic generosity so that both you and your clients and customers can thrive. 380 views |
Consciousness and the Flavor of Authentic Marketing.by Molly Gordon on Feb 3, 2012 Consciousness is transformative. It can transform simple food into deeply nourishing meals. When it comes to marketing and selling your work, consciousness means using simple methods, the purest available messages, and a keen awareness of what it takes to create enduring relationships with just-right clients. 297 views |
Synchronicity and mindfulness are keys to effective time management.by Molly Gordon on Jan 27, 2012 There’s more to scheduling your time than setting priorities and filling in blocks in your calendar. In fact, the time you leave blank may be the most important time of all. 439 views |
Three keys to setting mindful goals.by Molly Gordon on Jan 20, 2012 How big should a goal be? What does it mean to set goals mindfully? There’s no telling how big your right-sized goal will be until you pay attention to aspiration, receivability, and gratitude. It could be much smaller or larger than you first anticipated. What is certain is that it will be squarely in the middle of what is possible for you at this place and time. 554 views |
How mindfulness outwits the green-eyed monsterby Molly Gordon on Nov 23, 2011 No matter how much you are assailed by hungry ghosts, grasping, envy and fear, mindfulness of context can free you to pursue peaceful ambition. 669 views |
The Habit of Prosperity: Self-Employment As Walking Meditationby Molly Gordon on Nov 10, 2011 You need a Really Good Reason to build the habits of prosperity. But in order to get results, you need to detach from your Really Good Reason. 223 views |
The creative power of “Why not?” Goal setting for the spiritually and psychologically savvyby Molly Gordon on Nov 10, 2011 You’re a Renaissance person, and there’s something inherently limiting and soul-destroying about reducing your multi-faceted vision to a set of goals. But… 427 views |
Self-Employment Yoga: Stretch for Authentic Successby Molly Gordon on Nov 10, 2011 Self employment is like yoga. You need to fake it until you make it. 192 views |
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