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My professional success has increased exponentially in the last four years because of two keys: coaching (Michael Smith) and an entrepreneurial peer group (Entrepreneurs Network – Oklahoma Chapter). At FreelanceLab earlier this year, I encouraged the group to start peer groups after the event to encourage each other and help each other. I’m calling this concept 4x4s Journey Groups. […]

This week, I went to lunch with a friend. After paying for our meals, we were handed our drink cups and went promptly to the station to fill them. And what I was confronted with was the Coca-Cola Freestyle machine, a drink dispenser offering “100+ drink choices.” Yes, that’s not a typo … not 8 choices, but […]

Earlier this year, we started the #WProsper focus to help you do well, do better with WordPress and iThemes. Many of you filled out our survey at the beginning of the year, but it dawned on me, I needed to check-in and see how you were doing with your goals and in your work. So in […]

At the recommendation of Shaun Achor, author of the fabulous book The Happiness Advantage (which we gave to our entire team), I’ve been working on my 21-day, 21-person Thank You list (more on that in a later #WProsper post). But in the course of that exercise, I wrote this post on Investing in Friendships for Post Status, […]

Recently, I ran across the Best Possible Self Exercise, lauded by psychologists for helping increase happiness, which I found in the excellent book The How of Happiness. Professor Laura King came up with the exercise in a 2000 study and it had such an impact it has been used prolifically by others. The exercise goes […]

(HT: Mark Simchock posted this graphic in the WProsper Facebook group and thought I’d share.) This illustration was an incredible reminder to me today of all the work that goes into success. There are no shortcuts. There are no overnight successes. Success means work. Icebergs have two parts: What people see (above the surface) and what people […]

Fifteen years ago or so, I opened a fortune cookie and found the following fortune on the paper: “You will be unusually successful in business.” It had long been my dream to be an entrepreneur so this fortune naturally stood out to me amongst the other goofy or entertaining ones like “People are naturally attracted […]

In the early years of our business, I woke up one day to fully realize I had a real problem that was affecting my personal happiness and the progress and success of our business. It had eventually started to surface as growing bitterness and frustration. And it became a huge distraction for me and our […]

We all want to find the PERFECT, IDEAL, BEST clients. The ones that are the easiest and best to work with, pay a premium, pay it upfront and fast and never gripe but only rave about your work to everyone.   In our WProsper surveys, “finding better or ideal clients” has been the biggest struggle […]