No Passion - No Results!

I used to love doing graphic design...
I could spend hours perfecting a logo or a web site header.

But since I shifted my entire business around, my heart is now somewhere else.

Once in a while, though, when a new client or a new project comes along, I tell myself: "I can do this, I don't need to hire a graphic designer. I used to do this all the time!"

So I open my Adobe Photoshop, and start creating.

20 minutes later, I realize that I'm struggling...The colors are not right, the slogan is in the wrong place, and the whole thing is just "uck!"

I give up and close Photoshop.

I email my graphic designer and tell her I need a CD album cover.

The next day, I receive a design that blows me A-W-A-Y!

The colors are right, the design is beautiful, and everything is just where it belongs.

And it's so simple, it seems that anyone could do that!

Why was I struggling?

I remembered...

My heart is not in graphic design. I feel it's a complete waste of my time to try and come up with a perfect cover, when someone else can do it ten times faster, and twenty times better!

Because that's what they do!

Moral of the story: Be where the passion is, the rest will come.

Coaching as a full time position?

DALLAS MORNING NEWS reports:

"HR departments are starting to view coaches as a necessary complement to existing training programs."

"It is really becoming ingrained into the culture of many companies. The stigma is gone. It used to be that you only got a coach when you were in trouble - time to develop an exit strategy. Now it's really used more often to help top performers become even better."

And that's ahead of the schedule!

Read more at this link.

Something About Blogging....

When I was a little girl, I loved to journal.

My first entry was made when I was in 5th grade, and I wrote about my grandfather's passing.

As I look through my journals (remarkably, I saved them for 20 years, and even brought them with me across the ocean from another country!), I realize that most of my entries are filled with heartache, broken friendships, failing grades, teachers who were jerks, my best friend moving away... as if my life was a disaster!

Not at all - my childhood wasn't terrible...

I just journaled when I felt sad, angry or anxious. I needed strong negative emotions to force myself to sit down and write.

Why?

Because I could share my positive emotions with my friends and family, but would need more ways to channel the negative emotions. That's when my diary was my best friend.

My last entry was right before I got married. I never picked up my journal to write in it again.

Oh, I have plenty of things to complain about, I just do it with my husband! :)

But what about blogging?

When am I moved to blog?

There is something about blogging that becomes a habit, an addiction, a way of life.

You read something interesting in the paper, you blog.

You observe and interesting trend, you blog.

You watch a stupid commercial, you blog.

Do you find yourself blogging more about positive or negative experiences?

What moves YOU to blog? Care to share?