by Donna Maria on March 12, 2010
I maintained the Lifestyle CEO blog from September 2005 to September 2006. I recently reviewed it for content I could share with you here. I was delighted to discover that nearly every post is more relevant today than it was when I originally published it. This one, from November 10, 2005, is one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it.
Yesterday, my husband and I taped the Lifestyle CEO cable television show, and we did it with our kids at our sides. We waited until the last minute to secure our usual sitter, but she was not available so we were stuck. At the eleventh hour, a next-door neighbor agreed to help us, but since she was too young to stay in our home alone with the children, we piled into the car and went to the studio to tape the show.
Seeing my children sitting just feet away from me as my husband and I taped our television show reminded me that we really are creating the life we love. We are not bowing to traditional notions of what parenting should be like. We are making up our lives as we go along, doing things we love to do on our own terms and including our children every step of the way. The whole experience reminded me that you can either make things in your life the way you want them to be, or you can allow the world to dictate how your life should be. Continue Reading…
by Donna Maria on March 8, 2010
Over the years, I have received numerous guest post submissions for my blog. I have only accepted one. Others have been cheesy attempts to advertise to you, and a few have been submitted by people who threw something together and submitted it to dozens of blogs at once. I know you wouldn’t have appreciated posts like that, so I politely declined.
These days, I’m receiving increasing numbers of submissions, a few of them quite good, so I created some guidelines so people know what will and will not be considered as a guest post at the Indie Business Blog. For those of you with something of quality to share, this is your invitation to write for my blog! Continue Reading…
by Donna Maria on February 28, 2010
A few weeks ago, I posted about enjoying lunch with my daughter at her school. For such a short post, it generated a lot of discussion, perhaps in part because it struck a nerve with other women who simultaneously perform professionally and as mothers, without compromising either “career”. I’ve posted in depth about these issues before, here and here.
The post shared how glad I am that I quit my traditional job because doing so put me in the position of being able to have lunch with my daughter in the middle of a workday without having to answer to anyone. What I didn’t say is that I have to turn her down sometimes too. In fact, I did it last week. Twice. Continue Reading…
by Donna Maria on February 20, 2010
When my children were babies and toddlers, they were so cuddly. Whenever I wanted a hug, I got one. Whenever I wanted a snuggle, I simply started snuggling. It didn’t matter where we were or what was happening, mommy always got the warm fuzzies. Today, my 8-year old daughter still jumps at the chance to hug her mom. But my son, well, he’s a bit of a different story.
My husband took these pictures today within a few minutes of each other at Reid’s Fine Foods where we stopped off for lunch after a visit to the Levine Museum of the New South’s “Cotton Fields To Skyscrapers” Exhibit. When he asked my daughter to pose with me, she came over and gave me a sweet hug, as you can see. But my son was not having it. Continue Reading…
by Donna Maria on February 15, 2010
Money is neither good nor bad. It’s intangible. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel. It does nothing on its own. Making money is something the government does. They design it, they print it, they make it. We don’t make money, we earn it. We either earn it honestly or we earn it dishonestly. There are lots of ways to earn money honestly, and anyone can do it.
Cleaning toilets, mowing lawns, affiliate programs, teaching, painting houses, braiding hair, Google ads, washing cars, winning food design contests. These are all effective ways to earn money honestly. Some people earn lots of money doing these things, some earn people a little bit of money doing them.
It’s not the amount of money or the way it’s honestly earned that makes the difference. What makes the difference is what is done with the money after it’s earned.
Money is neither good nor bad. It’s intangible. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel. It does nothing on its own.
Question: What difference will you make with the money you earn today?
by Donna Maria on February 14, 2010
It’s that time again, time for Sunday Soup! If you get two Soups today, please disregard the other one with my apologies. It’s been one of those weekends!
You asked some great questions last week and I am here again to answer more. Ask me about social media, leadership, small business success, mompreneurship, family business — whatever is on your mind!
I’ll answer the questions you post here throughout the week.
Go!
Sunday Soup Photo: The co-author of this book will be our guest on tomorrow’s radio show. If you want some great ideas for using your blog to maintain valuable customer connections, join us at 1:00pm New York time on Indie Business Radio!
