Continuing my periodic posts on my progress in the Right Brain Business Plan e-course, the next topic is determining your target market and finances. Up to this point, we’ve discussed values and our business vision, the business self-portrait and the business landscape. However, now that you’ve got this great product or business idea, you have [...]
Archive for June, 2010
To Market, To Market
Posted in art, Business, Collage, Creativity, Inspiration, Networking, Opportunity, Self-confidence, tagged art, Business, Creativity, dreams, fear, finances, goals, Inspiration, intent, money, Quickbooks, Right Brain Business Plan, success, target markets, women on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In The News
Posted in Business, Creativity, Favorite stuff, Inspiration, Networking, Opportunity, Web sites, tagged Bolton, Bolton Common, Business, Creativity, Entreprenette Gazette, HARO, Help A Reporter, Inspiration, interviews, Networking, opportunity, press releases, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been so focused on several different areas that I forgot to share some “In the News” updates. Earlier this month I was the feature interview in the Bolton Common’s “UnCommon Conversation.” You can read my interview with Julia Quinn-Szcesuil here This month I also signed up for HARO: Help A Reporter. This is a [...]
Monday Reflection-Happiness
Posted in Inspiration, Quotable Monday, Quotes, Spirituality, tagged emotions, happiness, Inspiration, Matthew Ricard, mind, philosophy, Quotable Monday, Quotes, Spirituality on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; Outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favorable. -Matthew Ricard
Creating a Business Self-Portrait
Posted in Business, Collage, Creativity, Finding a voice, Inspiration, intention, Intuition, Networking, Opportunity, Self-confidence, tagged Business, change, competition, Creativity, fear, goals, Inspiration, intent, life, market, Networking, opportunity, Right Brain Business Plan, success, trends on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Right Brain Business Plan (RBBP) e-course is rolling into its 6th week. That puts us 3/4 of the way through the class. Hard to believe it has gone by so quickly…and that I haven’t been very good about keeping you up-to-date on my progress. Last I wrote about the RBBP, I shared my business [...]
New in the Studio: Going to the Birds
Posted in Amy's Art, art, Creativity, Developing a line of work, Finding a voice, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Self-confidence, tagged art, birds, change, Creativity, drought, fear, Humor, Inspiration, Mixed Media, new, Polymer clay, self-confidence, success on June 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always enjoyed birds. I enjoy watching them fly overhead and hearing their songs in the morning. When I was a kid, many of my drawings and doodles had birds in them. Maybe I was a bird in a previous life. Maybe I raised birds in another life. It was probably inevitable, then, that birds [...]
Monday Reflection-Compassion
Posted in Inspiration, Quotable Monday, Quotes, Spirituality, tagged compassion, forgiveness, friendliness, Inspiration, Jack Kornfield, life, philosophy, Quotable Monday, Quotes, respect, Spirituality, transformation on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings. -Jack Kornfield
Artist Demo, Art Exhibit and An Interview
Posted in Amy's Art, Art Date, Artists, Bolton Artisans Guild, Creativity, Education, Inspiration, Networking, Opportunity, tagged art, Art shows, Bolton Artisans Guild, Creativity, demonstrations, Exhibits, Fruitlands Museum, Inspiration, Nashoba Valley Winery, Polymer clay, success, wine on June 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Artist Demonstration On Sunday, June 13, I am demonstrating how I create my artwork in polymer clay at Fruitlands Museum as part of Fruitlands 2010 Artisan Series. I will show you how I create my Klimt and Craze Collage patterns as seen on my business card cases, perfume pens and wine bottle stoppers. I will [...]
Summer Salad Recipe
Posted in Creativity, Favorite stuff, Mixed Media, Nature, Style, tagged artichokes, bread, cheese, Creativity, food, good for you, health, natural, Nature, peas, success on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
To me, preparing, cooking and serving food is another form of creativity. I think it starts when we are kids. How many times were you told to stop playing with your food as a child? Were you really playing with your food or being creative with it? Like Richard Dreyfus in “Close Encounters of the [...]
Monday Reflection
Posted in Inspiration, Quotable Monday, Quotes, Spirituality, tagged Courage, emotions, HH The Dalai Lama, Inspiration, kindness, life, mind, Nature, philosophy, Quotable Monday, Quotes, self-confidence, self-potential, Spirituality on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To think of the immense wall of potential hidden deep within our being, to understand that the nature of mind is fundamental purity and kindness, and to mediate on its luminosity, will enable you to develop self-confidence and courage -H.H. The Dalai Lama
Having Visions
Posted in Amy's Art, art, Business, Collage, Creativity, Finding a voice, Inspiration, intention, Intuition, Mixed Media, Networking, Opportunity, Self-confidence, Spirituality, tagged altered books, art, Books, Business, Creativity, dreams, emotions, fabric, fear, goals, Inspiration, intent, Intuition, Mixed Media, philosophy, Right Brain Business Plan, Spirituality, success, vision boards on June 3, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Our first major assignment in the Right Brain Business Plan course was to create a vision board. We were tasked with cutting out images that represented the overview of our company, our business values, the products and services we offer, our target market, our creative cohorts and supporters, our financial dream, and anything else we [...]


