Those of you who know me know that I tend to have a lot of different things going on at one time. I joke that it stems from my entrepreneurial attention deficit as well as the old adage “If you want something done, give it to a busy person”. Like many other busy people I know, I actually do better when I have more to do. I guess it forces me to be organized and not procrastinate.

As my activities and passions have evolved, however, I’ve made a most exciting discovery: these seemingly random things I do actually work together. In fact, with my new company, Path Forward International, these passions collide and combine in a most serendipitous way. My Shiny Penny Hell(TM) is congealing into a cohesive strategy that not only both my partner Renee and I are thrilled with, but seems to resonate with our target market as well.

My first passion is creativity. Specifically, entrepreneurial thinking as it relates to innovation. I didn’t get my new title Chief Muse for nothing, after all. That title was actually given to me by my students when one after another commented on how I helped them come up with fresh new ideas or see their situation in a new light. We’ve taken the creative, idea-generation processes that we’ve been teaching for almost 5 years to entrepreneurs and developed the first phase of our 3-phase “Get It” innovation process, Get Sparked, where we help you get to Shiny Penny Hell(TM).

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