My knitting group met at the cutest little coffee shop. Every Saturday morning, I’d arrive at 10am. I’d grab a cup of tea and maybe even one of the delectable snick-snacks that they offered. And then, we grabbed up a table or two and would…
Author: LA Bourgeois
Music infused my family. My mother was an elementary music teacher so I always had the tools of rhythm and melody close. And I remember a piano always sitting in some room of the house. I began banging on those piano keys, and my mother…
Three years ago, my wife had a stroke and ended up in a rehab center. Everything seemed awful and I didn’t know what was going to happen. This crisis tanked the small business I was attempting to get off the ground, so we had no…
Last Friday, I took a couple of hours off and my wife and I drove up onto the Blue Ridge Highway. The trees, as promised, showed off their autumn color – brilliant magenta, deep rust, bright yellow, and even a sneaky little celadon beaming from…
Now that we’re a little over half-way through October, I can see the holidays rushing towards me like a tsunami. Ten days until Halloween, thirty-six days until Thanksgiving, and then December is here with holiday parties, gifts to be created and given, and all sorts…
Very little in this world works like gravity. Gravity is “just the way it is.” You drop a glass, it falls to the floor. If something isn’t a scientific law, that doesn’t have to just be the way it is. Even scientific laws get tested…
The myth about money that I continue to find particularly tricky to overcome is the idea that “More is Better.” You hear “More is Better” shouted from rooftops. People post this one on Instagram in beautiful script over gorgeous photographs. Abundance gurus will tell you…
Make a list of all of your tools. Remember that money is only one of these tools, and consider all of your resources – abilities, things, friends, family. When you looked at that list of all of your tools, did it make you feel powerful?…
Money is a tool, like a hammer or a knitting needle or a paint brush or a pen.
Making a map of your journey, looking at the roads which intersect, searching for how you get there from here – this helps to show you where you are going.
And that’s why a mindmap can help you plan the journey to finish your project.