Opus Marketplace is a full-service Asheville social media marketing agency with over 15 years’ experience marketing for the web. Want to get heard? Let’s get started! In business and life alike, change is hard. And heroic. Nearly every story of … [Read more...]
Finding My Voice – More on Ethics
I’m still wrangling with finding my voice. I have lots of things to talk about, but many of them are wrapped up on client stories. Saying that I can’t write about them is like cutting off an arm. The dominant one. It makes it really hard to … [Read more...]
Blogging for Business: Finding my Voice
For weeks now, I’ve been getting up early and writing before I do anything else. No particular topic, just writing, keeping the pen moving. This morning, I went back and reviewed all that writing for inspiration for this blog post. I came up with … [Read more...]
Grounded Dreamer – The natural excitement and sometimes confusion of saying yes
Opus Marketplace is a full-service Asheville social media marketing agency with over 15 years’ experience marketing for the web. Want to get heard? Let’s get started! Have you ever gotten caught up in the excitement of someone or something new and … [Read more...]
Keep On Fighting the Good Fight – Business Lessons From Charles Bukowski
It can be a very dangerous thing to really ask yourself what you want in life. I mean, to really ask that question and to sit with the answer over and over again. You run the risk of letting people down, of demanding change, of shaking up your … [Read more...]
Restoring Heart to My Writing — Back to the Basics
On Friday, Carl and I had a conversation about blogging. I’ve been having trouble coming up with topics that feel compelling and writing them in a way that feels natural and heart-centered. Frankly, I’ve been sounding like Professor Expert even to … [Read more...]
From Heart to Hands and Back Again – Zen and the Art of You
Yesterday I lost a personal hero. Robert M Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila died at 88. Sadly, there aren't many heroes left. Like many other fans of Pirsig, Kerouack, Kesey, Sartre, et al, I discovered … [Read more...]
The Infinite at Work – Why
Opus Marketplace is a full-service Asheville social media marketing agency with over 15 years’ experience marketing for the web. Want to get heard? Let’s get started! This is the beginning of a multi-part series on approaching business from the … [Read more...]
The Heart of What You Love – Emotional Vision at Work
We’ve been talking a lot about focusing on what you love. If you’re like many people (me for example) you wrote down the vision of what you would most love doing and then a curious thing happened. You looked at what you wrote and noticed two things … [Read more...]
Don’t Touch My Thorn!!!
Everyone is touchy about something. Actually, we’re touchy about a lot of things and we have every reason to be. A friend or loved one says something that hurts, maybe unintentionally, maybe cruelly. Or perhaps, we’re part of a group that is the … [Read more...]