The Secret to Happiness Lies in a Simple Quote: Comparison is the Thief of Joy – Theodore Roosevelt This simple quote, is bursting of profound beautiful wisdom. Spoken by former president Theodore Roosevelt, these words are the secret to happiness, for which some people spend a lifetime searching. These three little words are the cure for melancholy, loneliness, and jealousy. This quote might not be the cure for clinical depression, but it is a source of joy and an inspiration for many who find themselves delving back into the sea of negative emotions. Almost every time that I feeling unhappy or devoid of joy, I can identify some person or situation to which I am comparing myself. It might sound overly simple and easy to scoff at, but I ask you to search, to explore the times when you feel a lack of joy. I hazard to guess that you…
McKeating Advice on Growth Hacking Everything in Moderation In a past post I mentioned my grandfather, Dr. Phil McKeating, the man who built our family on strong principles and life lessons. He’s the inspiration for my business and many of the ways in which I live my life today. We learned a lot of lessons from him, and through his children after he had passed. It was the way he had raised them, that many of my cousins, myself included, got to know him as he passed when we were still pretty young. One of the lessons that stuck with me, was how he believed in moderation. I apply his thoughts on moderation to a great many things in life – Growth Hacking being one of them. “Everything in Moderation” Allow me to tell a quick story to drive home this important lesson. Phil McKeating was…
Don’t get so wrapped up in the Now That you Bumble Your Budget Confession: I’m not a numbers person. I never have been. It was an aspect of starting my own business that I was a bit nervous about. Ok, in the spirit of full honesty, there was a lot I was nervous about. But managing a budget totally on my own was daunting. I made sure that I was very organized, tracked all of the costs involved, which included registering my business name, incorporating, setting up a business bank account and more. Starting the business sets you back about $300 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Opening a Business Checking account with PNC didn’t cost me anything, but I had to have a $100 deposit to open the account, and then keep a minimum balance of $1,500 to avoid penalties or fees. Then…
Learning Your Worth Fanning Your Fire of Self Belief In this post I want to talk to you about something very raw and very real. So far, I think I’ve been pretty candid about the struggles and elations of starting a business. In this post, I want to help you by showing you the importance of learning your worth, of fanning your fire of self belief. One of the the hardest parts of starting my own business, was a hurdle of my own creation. After six jobs that lasted only a year or less, and a few attempts to start something of my own, I began to embrace self doubt. My friends, once you let self doubt into your life, it’s one of the hardest things send packing. We just installed new counter tops – so let me try this example. Dabbling in self doubt is…
Check out for a little while And recharge your brain! Do you ever feel burnt out? Does it feel like the font of your creativity just dried up and left you in search of a new source? It happens to all of us, especially when you are starting your own business. Actually, it’s bound to happen to you when you’re running your own business because you are doing so much of the work yourself, rather than being able to delegate certain things to others. Rather than get frustrated or search in vain for ways to dig a new wellspring of creativity, check out for a little while and recharge your brain. In this post, I’m going to share with you my secret for recharging your brain, and I promise, it doesn’t take a week at an all inclusive exclusive resort or a…
How is Starting Your Own Business Like participating in the Olympic Games? The Olympics have been on my brain quite a bit lately. They kick off on the day after my birthday (Which is today by the way). My niece has chosen the Olympics as a theme for her August birthday party. And two of my sister Alumni from Oakland Catholic are competing in the games. All of this reminds me of my mom’s favorite quote growing up. My mom had never played a sport, being one of eight kids there wasn’t much time or money for each of them to play a sport. My grandfather was a doctor and worked long hard hours in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood – and well my grandma…with eight kids to chase, she didn’t have much time either. My mom did and still loves to…
If you do anything in life You risk making a mistake – so let them happen We’ve already discussed how to craft your emails, going through the planning, the writing and the proofing, but what about the sending? Clicking send can be daunting What if you’ve made a mistake and failed to catch it? What if you’re too close to your own righting that your eyes correct what your reading? (See what I did there?) You have two options. You can allow your fear to paralyze you and never send your email. Or, you can send a test email or two, accept that mistakes are a part of life, and then let your email fly. Mistakes Happen We spend so much time working on this one email that we forget what it actually is. We forget that it’s just one of many…
One Lesson All Bloggers Learn Patience, Young Grasshopper Every blogger eventually learns an important lesson. No matter how excited you are about your website or blog, or how great you think it is, will take time and lots of hard work to become successful. The internet is not longer an “if you build it they will come” platform for content marketers and authors. Yes, there are more people using the internet than ever before and this means that you potential target audience is larger than ever…but, there is so much more content vying for their attention that you also now have more competition than ever. Now, I tell this to you not to discourage you, but rather to help inspire you. I want you to learn this less early, so that you can accept it and get to work without the false hopes and dreams that…
Believe in Yourself And the power of your blog Or no one else will That sounds pretty doom and gloom right? But why are you blogging if you don’t believe that there is a value in what you are doing? If you really take some time to think about what you are doing, you will find the value and maybe if you think about it long enough, you’ll believe in that value. What am I talking about? There is an important theme that keeps coming up in running my own business and when I’m speaking to other female entrepreneurs about running their’s. I’m not being sexist and leaving the guys out – Right now I’m just speaking to a lot of #bossladies. Guys can definitely be self conscious or doubting as well. Maybe the reason is that we…
Featured Blogs Series And the McKeating Message to Entrepreneurs Most entrepreneurs don’t start their business overnight, and they definitely don’t start it in a vacuum. They think, dream, plan, network, seek guidance and learn from others before setting out to achieve their dreams. I am luck enough to have connected with some incredible people along my journey toward starting my own business. I hope to be one of these mentors, these guiding lights along the way for others as these creative professionals have done for me. To say thank you but also to help new entrepreneurs meet and engage with those who have helped me start McKeating Solutions I’ll be starting a Featured Blogs Series. I’ll Interview them here on the blog but also list them in an entrepreneurial resource center on the site. In this Featured Blogs Series I am reaching…