‘Tis the Season – Invitation to a Facebook Group Challenge
Seasons Greetings! As we enter the holiday season, it’s also the season for looking toward the future, to the new year ahead. If you’re like me, you’re ready to say “good riddance” to 2020!! It’s been a tough year when any and all plans seem to have been overridden...
A Season of Giving and Learning
Thanksgiving serves as a kick-off for the season of giving when many people generously donate to the causes they care about. It’s also the start of the shopping season with several days that have become well known to us--Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and...
Are We in a “Shecession”?
Since the pandemic began, the economy and life as we’ve known it has been in upheaval. Schools and businesses were closed, people who could work from home were learning how to use Zoom and other videoconferencing and connection services. Some were finding out their...
Your Time is Now!
Were you able to join us for the first and possibly only Great Reset 2020 Work at What You Love virtual workshop? We had an amazing group of people participate; we were honored to have so many wonderful Change Seekers in attendance. Have you been pondering whether...
Changing Course Moving Forward
From the Changing Course Family: Two-and-a-half years after the official end of slavery in the US, enslaved people in Texas learned on June 19th--Juneteenth--that they were free. Some 155 years later, we at Changing Course acknowledge that, as a nation and as...
After 25 Years, Parting Advice from the Dreamer in Residence at Changing Course
I’m writing to let you know that after a quarter of a century as the Dreamer in Residence at Changing Course, I’m stepping down. If you read my recent post “Regret Nothing”, you’re probably not surprised. I told you about some recent losses in my life and a family...
Tribute to Barbara Sher and Finding Your Brilliance
Imagine fearing you’ll never find your dream career. Then you join a group being led by a wise woman who helps people do just that. The other participants are popping with ideas. But you… no clue. Then at the final meeting, you spy a National Geographic magazine on...
Regret Nothing
I almost didn’t stop to visit Sam. “Too busy. No time. I’ll stop another time.” But something made me pull off the highway. Sam and his wife Doris lived next to me for over a decade. After a snowstorm, I could always count on Sam to show up to plow my driveway. And...
Help People to Solve a Problem Created by COVID-19
Part 3 of Why is This a Great Time to Start A Business? Across the globe, people are quarantined, self-isolating, social distancing, or operating under ‘stay at home’ orders. This has left many people feeling isolated and alone. Just because you are self-isolating,...
Utilize Your Clients’ Free Time to Engage Them
From the Changing Course Team Before we jump into Part 2, all of us at Changing Course would like to send a special thank you to all of the essential workers, who are keeping us going during these difficult times. To those who work in health care; grocery stores;...
Why is This a Great Time to Start A Business?
Part 1: Utilize Your New Found Time to Build Your Business The uncertainty of life in the time of COVID-19 has left many of us wondering what’s next for our work, our kids, and our lives. On the one hand, the experience can be quite isolating. On the other hand, we...
Finding Meaningful Work
In an interview late in his life, famed psychologist Sigmund Freud was asked to expound on what he felt were the most important constituents of life. His answer? “Liebe und Arbeit.” Love and work. This is hardly surprising. After all, for most of human history, the...
Six figures hanging holiday lights?
Christmas may be over. But your chance to realize your dream of self-bossing may just be starting. It definitely was for Josh Trees. Josh’s light bulb moment came in 1997 when he launched a business installing holiday lights. In three short years, We Hang Christmas...
