Passionately On Purpose

How Are You Making a Difference?

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen Let’s say you are older, a senior citizen if you will, and you find that you cannot or do not want to do things the way you used to. You have reached a point where you need to make some major changes and redefine your life. How do you do that? [...]

You Are the Moulder of Your Day

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen Our lives are full of transitions – movement from one phase to another, one awareness to a new one. And with each of those transitions we get to make new choices. I’ve been a metaphysician for a long time and I know how our thoughts create our reality. But so do our actions. When [...]

Build your Online Business through Signature Information Products

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen Being in business is about helping people accomplish something – feel better, do better, be better. And that often means educating them. An information product may offer good information about your products and services. It may teach your target community some new technique they can use or it may inspire them [...]

The Ten Percent Solution

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen They say we only use 10 percent of what we own. Think how much space we would have if we gave the rest away. Think how much money we would have if we stopped buying stuff we don’t need. Think how much time we would have if we didn’t have so much [...]

What Your Blog Can and Cannot Do For You

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen A blog is not a business in itself, it facilitates your business. It is a key tool in growing your business. First you have to have an audience Whatever form your business is going to take, you have to attract a target community for it. You have to build a relationship with people [...]

How Goals Limit You

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen We’re taught to set goals, right? How else can we get where we need to go without them. We break these goals down into action steps and we make lists and check off what we have accomplished. But what if I said goals limit you. What would you do [...]

Write for Discovery

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen To really understand something you need to teach it in some form. You may explore an idea by writing a series of blog posts on the subject. You might learn to do something better by writing an ebook or home study course on how to do it. Or you may just [...]

Are You Exploring New Frontiers?

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen Or are you stuck on the old homestead doing the same ol’, same ol’? Maybe you like it there but there sure are a whole lot of interesting activities taking place a little further down the road. Life is different today than it was even a few years ago. The opportunities that present [...]

It’s Not Like It Used To Be So How Do I Need To Change

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen The times they are a’changing and we need to change too. Nothing is like it used to be and it’s time for us to totally rethink how we do business. A two and a half year recession has brought major changes in what people buy and how they spend their [...]

How to Push Through the Hard Stuff

cara@caralumen.com (Cara Lumen)

by Cara Lumen It takes courage and persistence to learn something that seems hard, or figure out something that has never been easy for you before. But there are times we simply have to push through. Decide why it is important A 74 year old friend of mine is getting a divorce after 35 years of marriage and [...]