Do you enjoy reading about cutting edge ideas?  Do you like to see trends in the making?  Do you consistently ask yourself if your business practices are curent?  If so, then check out this resource.  I find it a fascinating read on a monthly basis.

From the www.trendwatching.com site:  trendwatching.com is an independent and opinionated trend firm, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. For the latest and greatest, we rely on our network of 8,000+ spotters in more than 70 countries worldwide.

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Today is Tax Day in the U.S. so it’s appropriate that we talk about money!

Are you attracting all the money you desire? Or does it still seem like there is an invisible barrier blocking money from easily coming to you?

I often get clients asking me about my favorite tools for shifting those pesky (and often giant boulder-like) limiting beliefs. Often many of those limiting beliefs will have to do with money. I work with a variety of products and I like to share with you my favorites!

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Hi Everyone,

Its Valentine day this week and my goodness I think every year the stores carry more and more amazing stuff.

This past Saturday, I had the privilege of being invited to a special woman’s event called Amazing Woman’s Day and it really was – amazing.

Not only was the room filled with 200 absolutely amazing women, there was great food, wonderful speakers, incredible drumming and it was at a really beautiful museum here in Los Angeles.

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Last week, I was honored to be the first guest in Brad Swift’s Building Your Business On Purpose with Passion & Play teleclass series. A big thanks to Brad for making it so easy and fun, especially for someone (me) who doesn’t usually do teleclasses!

As part of the series, Brad has a blog where we are posting our insights as the series continues, and where registrants can post comments and get feedback. Someone posted this question: "Could an opportunity for personal growth and development be rejected
because it at first disguises itself as being out of one’s niche?" and I thought I’d share my reply with Solo-E blog readers!

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Last Wednesday, I spent almost 5 hours on the phone, in what I guess you’d call a "teleseminar telethon marathon!"  It just happened that a handful of teleclasses and coaching calls all landed on the same day. 

So, when I wondered ‘where the day went,’ I realized that I had spent the better part of the day on the phone - learning new things, broadening my horizons, and expanding my knowledge.  (Or was I just procrastinating all the other stuff I had to do?!?  Am I becoming a "tele-holic?")

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One of the main attractions of being a Solo Entrepreneur is the chance to work for ourselves. After all, many of us spent too much time in the corporate world doing what someone else wanted us to do, dealing with the politics, and doing things not because they were good for the company or its customers, but because it made us look good at raise time. And we hated that, because it sometimes turned us into a kind of person that we really loathed — a very different person than who we were (or wanted to be) in real life, with our family and friends.

Which is why it is startling to me when I see another Solo Entrepreneur (or myself!) falling into some of those same traps we sought to avoid! Here’s three ways this can happen, and what we can do about it.

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15 months ago, I signed up for the Mark Hendricks’ 12 Days of Christmas giveaway. I signed up for dozens of newsletters, downloaded scores of ebooks and videos, and generally got tired of typing my email address.

Now, 15 months later, I still have a folder full of ebooks to peruse, and an email folder with messages I want to save, or haven’t even read yet! And while some of these items are on topics that I want to dive into someday, many are related to things I’ve already spent a lot of time researching and learning about.

So why do I hold onto this information? And why do I continue to accumulate more such information, and keep adding it to my pile? Because I think, however irrationally, that there might be some nugget of knowledge buried in there, somewhere, that I vitally need to know.

Rrrrrriiiiight. Who am I kidding? My rational brain tells me that it’s not worth the time to dig that bit of knowledge out of there, if it even exists. That I don’t need perfect knowledge, anyway, to make decisions and take actions. And on the days that I convince myself that this is true, I go on a clean-out-the-closets rampage, and start deleting left and right. And for a while afterward, I actually feel better.

I call this my information binge and purge. <No offense to those who are, or who know someone who is, suffering from this real, often deadly, disorder.> And I’m trying to get better — I’m learning to ask myself, before I sign up/download, if I really need this new bit of information.

Does this sound like you? Anyone want to share their tips for stopping information overload before it starts??

Tags: [informationoverload], [business], [internet]