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A fellow soulpreneur wrote:

“I’m loving JoyPro! It’s already generated more useful action than I have for months! But I do have a tendency to want to solve everything now, and feel some degree of frustration that my life just doesn’t allow for that…”

Bear with me while I bring in a bit of woo here — I believe this problem arises from our intuition about eternity…

We have this sense of our soul’s real capacity to be everywhere all at once, and to do everything all at once because — in th…

A reminder for us solopreneurs:

You have to do stuff you don’t naturally love… until you have enough money to do only what you love.

Building a business as a solopreneur involves a huge variety of tasks and projects, most of which you wouldn’t naturally have thought — “This was what I was looking forward to doing, day to day, with an authentic business!”

The stronger your passion and vision for what should be your ideal work, the stronger you’ll feel the gap. The destination seems so fa…

A student very familiar with my content wrote this insightful comment:

“I’m seeing this pattern of mind setting up goals and plans, and especially times, to complete things. Then what tends to happen is that the plans get somehow thrown off… Things tend to start after the end of the arbitrary deadline.

I thought I just need to get better at doing things on time, but I learned in an inner voice retreat last week that what’s actually happening is that when the mind sets an arbitrary deadli…

For many of us, the way that the brain works is counter to our work-rest balance…

First — we often resist work.

Then — when we get settled enough (or nervous enough about a deadline!) — we finally get down to work.

And then — it takes us a while to get into flow…

Once we get into flow — we then become entranced. It feels natural (sometimes compelled) to keep going, which then leads to overwork…

You essentially become a victim of your momentum.

You’re like a large rock being pushed up…

This morning I was enjoying some social media surfing. Felt like “fun”. I wanted to keep going!

But I had a commitment to write this blog post, so I “forced” myself to stop having “fun”, and instead engage with a blank screen and the “hard work” of figuring out what to write.

Now that I’m 15 minutes into the writing, I’m starting to feel the joy of writing this — staying curious about what I’m going to write next, and envisioning that if even just 1 person reads and gets benefit from thi…