Jess Lively

My Dream Report Finale My dear friends and MML readers, I’m sad to report that today is my last Dream Report. Jess and I decided to end with 2011 some time ago, though now that it’s here, I think it went by much too quickly! I’ve so cherished writing for you each week and reading [...]

Special Q&A Edition! Thank you all so much for the positive response to last week’s post! Glad that resonated (and that I’m not alone!). I loved reading all your comments. This week I’m going a little off-script and answering some questions you left in the comments last week and via email. And if you missed [...]

*To submit a question for me to answer in next week’s Q&A post, leave it in a comment!* Popular As much as I love blogging and what it’s done for my business (starting it, for one thing!), the internet can start to feel like high school sometimes. I remembered this the other day, while seeing [...]

Six Month Update December 1st marked my six month anniversary as a full-time entrepreneur. Did you hear that popping noise? That was my bottle of champagne ; ) I feel like this is quite a milestone, and yet, it’s only the beginning. It has been the beginning of what I hope will be a long [...]

Thankful I briefly thought about writing a post on Black Friday, which gets its name from the stores finally making enough sales to consider themselves “in the black” for the year. But selling a service is a little different from retail, which doesn’t make me the best expert on that subject. Instead I’ll focus on [...]

Strengths I spent a week in Chicago and just got back on Tuesday, and yes I got to meet Jess and she is just as charming and friendly in person as you’d expect her to be! We had a lovely time visiting. At coffee, Jess asked about some of my past work experience, namely a [...]

An update on the part-time job front Several weeks ago I posted about my conflicted emotions over looking for a part-time job to help ease the financial burden of only having one steady household income. I didn’t discuss it at the time, but shortly after writing that post we were told that my boyfriend Ryan’s [...]

Business Bucket List The “Bucket List” is that list you have (formally or informally) of all the things you want to do before you “kick the bucket.” It might mean climbing Mt. Everest, learning the violin, or something more attainable, like skinny-dipping. For my business, I think of the bucket list as all things I [...]

Action! I read this awesome article on Monday and it’s really stuck with me all week. It’s all about the “Entrepreneurial Insecurity” that you may recognize in yourself or from some of my previous posts. My take-away message was this line: “Action is the antidote to fear.” How fitting then, that Jess posted her message [...]

Re-frame Hitting Week 20 is quite the milestone! And to be honest, I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about this week. In general, the last couple of weeks I’ve been feeling grumpy and crappy, like I simultaneously need a nap AND an exciting getaway. But I didn’t want to write another whiny [...]

Self-Educating There’s a reason he’s one of the greats! Room by decorator Billy Baldwin from the 1970′s (though it looks current!) Like much of the Western World, I was saddened and touched by the recent passing of Steve Jobs. It surprised me, in a way, just how much it affected me – I didn’t know [...]

Are you a success or a failure? How do you measure success? Is it being free to do your own thing, enjoying the work that you do, or spending quality time with your loved ones? Or does it maybe have (just a little) something to do with money? Here’s the tricky thing with working for [...]