Yup. And the starting place is exactly what Pam Slim will be addressing in her kick off session on September 15. Dick Carlson’s session on content-preneuring will also be useful. Dick is a lifelong student of how people learn. He’s fed up with the shallow learning experiences that are being passed off as valuable content by so many internet marketers.

What does that have to do with you?

Well, it’s been said that there’s a book in everyone. What that means to me is that each of us has knowledge and perspectives that can be valuable to someone else. Dick will be showing us how to choose ways to formulate and package that knowledge so that it actually delivers value to other people. This applies whether you throw pots or pizza dough for a living.

Stay tuned!

I would have sworn I wad responded to it, but either I was dreaming or my response got eaten during our recent change in Web hosts.

One question that occurs to me as I re-read what you posted: What structures will encourage in you the qualities you want to encourage in others? I’m not saying your company should treat others the same way it treats you. You are the owner. But I am saying that when you have good boundaries and are clear about your standards and expectations of employees, and when you are clear that your standards and boundaries serve everyone, you will be able to see what works and what doesn’t.

In my experience, the structures you are talking about are rarely, if ever, known in advance. What can be known is what you want the structures to do and how you will evaluate the results of your experiments.

As I wrote in response to Mgta, “I hear you about spending too much time collecting advice and too little time putting it into practice.”

We’ll be working hard to make the telesummit both inspiring and practical.

I hope you will raise some of these issues in the forums, which are going live this week.

Isn’t that the truth? It’s so easy to get caught up in serving the customer at the expense of future work. Sometimes, even at the expense of current rest and relaxation.

It’s one thing to say, “schedule time to market and develop relationships with prospective clients even when you’re busy.” It’s an entirely different thing to do it.

Sean D’Souza’s presentation on chaos will shake up some of our ideas about time management and delivering value to clients. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but I will say that following his methods have made my life a whole lot saner this year.

You wrote, “My biggest challenge is motivation, and calming the inner voices that tell me I’m nuts, it won’t work, etc.”

That is so common. This is the biggest challenge I face after 20 years of self-employment. Fortunately, while the challenge remains, it gets easier to deal with.

Pam Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation, has an especially good feel for this issue. She combines practical knowledge and clear instructions for moving ahead with an attitude that promotes sanity and even kindness to oneself.

The forums, which are going live this week, will provide an additional safe place to vent frustrations and fears and give and receive support. These online bulletin boards are available to everyone who registers for the telesummit. And, now that they are live, you get access as soon as you sign up.