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LOVE what you do, so that one day you’ll get to do what you LOVE...

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 w…

a soulful perspective on goal-setting and deadlines - Joyful Productivity for soulpreneurs

Can you relate to this comment from a student familiar with my content: “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 retr…

Authentic Business is not a hobby...

In this video, I get real about what it takes to build a thriving authentic business. I share my own struggles with skills like video creation and writing, and how I had to push past my resistance to develop those muscles. I emphasize the need to treat your business as a serious endeavor, not just a hobby, and to commit to consistent practice and skill development. I also introduce the idea of being a joyful productivity athlete, embracing the challeng…

It’s deeply “fun” to build an Authentic Business 🙂

Our society usually defines “fun” as being instantly entertained: watching funny videos, playing games, buying cool stuff, drinking and eating. There’s nothing wrong with material pleasures when it’s in service of self-care. Especially when such activities are in connection with others. The distorted perspective happens when we assume that kind of “fun” is supposed to be infused throughout the activities of building a business, or in the …

Profound Ease while Building Your Authentic Business…

Don’t we all wish that building an authentic business can feel “easy”? That just about any action you take in your business results in greater income? I offer a couple of reframes in this video that I hope will support true ease...

Posted by George Kao, Authentic Business Coach on Friday, September 1, 2023