Angels Among Us:

When I was little, my Mom told me we each have a Guardian Angle to watch over us. Despite the fact that most evidence seems to go against the Guardian Angel theory, I still cling to the idea that God’s messengers are around us and we just have to invite them into our lives. I’ve [...]

Goal Setting V

Discipline… Not the leather and whip, Mistress may I kind… But good old fashion stuff like determination, persistence and hard work go into getting creative things accomplished, just like anything else. Goal Setting is just one of the tools to help you get your brain working, having a measurable daily discipline will assure you that [...]

Goal Setting IV

Successful creatives, like all successful people are AMAZINGLY disciplined. The power of goal setting, in my experience, is to do 5 things EVERY day towards your goals. If your goals are in alignment with your core, if you are serious about achieving big things, then you will be unstoppable if you just take daily action. [...]

Homespun Tapes

 I’ve been talking about goals for a while now and in my next post I’ll tell you about getting more specific with your goals (as soon as I get over this cold). One of my goals for 2008 was to get reasonably tolerable at guitar. I’m in my 50’s and I’ve wanted to play since [...]

Ursula Roma

Found another REALLY good artist to profile this week. She is from Cincinnati and is a wonderful painter and illustrator. As usual, financial guy here will try not to be the art critic, I’ll stick with my skill set thank you. But I love her work and invite you to visit with her at: http://ursularoma.blogspot.com/

Goals III

The MOST important thing about setting goals is that they MUST be in line with your core, you life’s purpose. No matter how strong your intention or determination, I don’t think you will be able to stick to a plan to achieve something that is not in line with your life mission. There are a [...]

2009 Goal Setting II

So, here’ the thing about goal setting. Goals are not wishes or New Year’s Resolutions. No way, huh-uh.
Goals are plans, like building blueprints and schedules. Going for your goals includes setting up trackable, measurable tasks that you do EVERY day.
If you follow our metaphor of driving to Cape Cod, the goal, getting to Cape Cod, [...]

Good Ride Cowboy, Good Ride!

I’m on an odyssey to the West Coast to promote The Affluent Artist and I met a really wonderful artist yesterday. Her name is Katie West and her art, naturally, is about this beautiful part of the world, the wild west. Katie is considered one of the finest pen and ink artists in the nation [...]

Goals vs. To Do’s…

So this month, in between introducing you to really cool creative people, we are talking about setting goals for 2009. I want to take a second to talk about the difference between a to do list and goals. This is a pretty simple yet very important distinction to make. For instance; my goal might be [...]

It's That Time of Year…

 Roll out the holly… NO STOP! Not that time of year! It’s even MORE fun than Christmas, that’s right, it’s time to set your 2009 goals! You know set a theme for the year, narrow your laser focus down to accomplishing one or two REALLY important things and a bunch of little things that get [...]