While sharing some of my recent successes with one of my un-official coaches (see my comments in the "Your Solopreneur Support System" article), I received a surprising compliment. You see, she was pleased at what I had accomplished since the last time we talked.

Instead of watching someone head off without seeing where they’re going, or helping an individual visualize what they want – only to stall with inactivity, she had seen me visualize a successful future and then take positive steps to bring that vision into reality.

Thinking on that later, I realized those two steps makes a great recipe for success - the combination is extremely powerful. Individually, each is a great tool, but when employed together, you may find (as I have) that the progress comes much faster.

Tim Sanders' book "Love is the Killer App" has been out for several years, and while I know I've come across the term "Lovecat" before, I hadn't read the book until recently. But if thoughts and ideas are things that have form and find a home in receptive places, I caught the idea without ever having touched a page;-)

Tim espouses the concept that the world is run with knowledge, networks, and compassion, and that nice smart people succeed (NSPS).

This week I made a mental review of the topics we've covered so far here at Timely Insights. One thing I noticed is that while we have a fairly broad mission statement - "Devoted to exploring the nature of human life in our times" - there are some topics that we've come back to again and again, exploring them deeper.

This got me thinking about depth vs. breadth ... specialist vs. generalist ... a zoom lens vs. a wide angle.

Each outlook has its merits, but is one better than the other?

I find a bit of humor in reading a good book for a second time by accident...

It's interesting to see what ideas took hold from the first reading, and to pull out additional ideas that might have been pushed aside or simply missed in that first read-through.

That's the case with Joe Calloway's book, "Becoming a Category of One", and I'm glad I came back to it.

Hunter Nuttall's work is making the rounds. I thought his article on Zen and Blogging was such a nice read that I'm happy to do my part to get others to read it.

I liked his message that in some cases, you know what you know only after you know what you don't know.