Adapt and overcome

Some days, running a business can seem an exhausting, neverending, despair-ridden task. That’s true even when you’re doing what you really love. When those moments threaten, something as small, hokey even, as having an inspirational phrase where you can see it can be just the nudge you need to keep you going.
Viggo Mortensen showing how [...]

Inspirational quote: 6 steps to a successful business

According to Your Chance to Change the World: The No-fibbing Guide to Social Entrepreneurship, the steps to getting seriously rich are the same ones for being a successful do-good business:

Commit or don’t commit. No half-measures.
Cut loose from all negative influence.
Choose the right mountain.
Fear nothing.
Start now.
Go.

I found that so inspiring, I made a quick design for [...]

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Got a fresh idea to help people? Start here

Perhaps you have an idea you’ve been mulling over for years, an idea for a project that helps people that you’ve never seen anyone else do. But you aren’t a charity and you want to earn a living doing good work. Enter social entrepreneurs.

Examples of successful social entrepreneurs
Maybe you’re like Andrew Mawson and the Bromley-by-Bow [...]

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Designer dry erase markers and sheets help you enjoy work

Good design helps you be more creative. It can even make work more enjoyable. Something as humble as the dry erase marker, done well, can be something that inspires you.

Tul Dry Erase Markers: the Pros
Take these markers. Thanks to their lovely and creative design, I’ll want to use them. They’ll entice me into actually writing [...]

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