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    Dream Droppings: An Entrepreneur's Field Guide
    Dream Droppings: An Entrepreneur's Field Guide
    Dream Droppings: An Entrepreneur's Field Guide
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    Dream Droppings: An Entrepreneur's Field Guide

    By Karyn Ruth White

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    How to turn your crappy days into rich compost ... and grow your dreams.

    This is a unique guide to help you look at the setbacks, the frustrations, the detours...the crap...that goes along with growing a dream...and see ways to access creative solutions and get stronger instead of feeling defeated.

    Remember, you are not alone, there are solutions and having a sense of community (and humor) REALLY helps.

    Dream Big...droppings and all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKaryn Ruth White
    Release dateMar 17, 2015
    ISBN9781311008978
    Dream Droppings: An Entrepreneur's Field Guide
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    Karyn Ruth White

    Karyn Ruth White is a Motivational Humorist, Comedian, Keynote Speaker and Author who believes that laughter is one of the most powerful tools we have to live happy, productive lives. As a stand-up comedian and a popular Keynote Presenter at National and State Conferences around the U.S., Karyn Ruth helps her audiences laugh off the little things and enjoy what’s important.Karyn Ruth is the owner of Laugh and Productions, LLC, a company dedicated to helping people live with more joy and less stress. She holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of New Hampshire and has been communicating through humor for over 20 years. Karyn Ruth started her humor career touring the country for over a decade as a professional stand-up comedian. She then decided to enter the professional speaking circuit using her humor to teach people how to be happier and healthier. Her comedy style is clean, connecting and positive. She is the co-author of the book Your Seventh Sense, How to Think Like a Comedian, a book that shows you how to bring more humor into your life and the author of Dream Droppings; An Entrepreneur's Field Guide.She loves to tap dance, ride her bike in beautiful Colorado and she’d like to claim that she rescues cats...but she’s pretty sure they rescue her.Stop by for a virtual laugh at www.karynruth.com.

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      Dream Droppings - Karyn Ruth White

      Dream Droppings

      An Entrepreneur’s Field Guide

      How to Turn your Crappy Days into Rich Compost ... and Grow your Dreams

      Karyn Ruth White

      Dream Droppings : An Entrepreneur’s Field Guide

      Copyright March 2014 by Karyn Ruth White. All rights reserved.

      For information, contact Karyn Ruth White, Laugh and Learn Productions, LLC, 3124 South Parker Road #A2-570, Aurora, CO 80014.

      www.karynruthwhite.com

      This is a work of nonfiction.

      The author and publisher, Laugh and Learn Productions, LLC, have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the author at: krw@karynruthwhite.com

      Cover Art and Interior Artwork (except compost bin), www.tombond-art.com

      E-Book by e-book-design.com.

      Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want—you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don’t know. I’ve forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn’t matter, so long as you move.

      —Ayn Rand, We the Living

      Table of Contents

      An Open Letter to the Creative Entrepreneur

      Part One: Motivation

      It’s Already Real

      Distraction is Sabotage

      Mañana: The Fine Art of Procrastination

      Lessons from a Snake

      The Resentment Test

      The Elegant Solution

      Part Two: Logistics / Systems

      Your Most Important Work Space

      I’m Feeling Anti-Social Media

      Are the Details Derailing You?

      Am I Working Alone Here?

      Part Three: Money

      Capital Punishment

      Does It Come in Gray?

      Show Me the Money!

      Living in Liquidity Limbo

      Part Four: Energy

      Don’t Follow Your Bliss, STALK It!

      The 48 Hour Rule

      Rejection

      99% of Life is Showing Up

      Overwhelm

      When Your Heart Just Isn’t In It

      Heart Marketing

      In Conclusion

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Resources

      Book Review Request

      One Last Load of Fertilizer

      An Open Letter to the Creative Entrepreneur

      Dear Dream Grower:

      If you are waiting for the perfect conditions, the perfect place, the perfect time, or the perfect you before you can start succeeding as a creative entrepreneur, pack a lunch. You’ve got a long wait!

      In this Field Guide, I’ll be using the words creative entrepreneur and artist interchangeably because I believe they are synonymous. Each is called to use their imagination to create a joyful and prosperous business. Droppings (also used interchangeably with the words manure and crap) are part of the journey, and there’s a fine line between dealing with the droppings and being pissed about having to deal with them.

      Artists are a unique species. We create from dissonance. Comedy, my art form of choice, like any art, thrives on dissonance and tension; a juxtaposition of opposing ideas, forces, and/or conditions.

      Let’s face it—we create out of crap. We curse the crap and then turn around and make it into fertilizer. That’s the alchemy of art. To be an artist is to be an alchemist; literally, to take a base metal and make it into gold, or in this case, to take the manure and create life-affirming growth.

      So celebrate the crap! It’s your fodder. It’s your future gold. Delight in the droppings, roll around in the manure, hug it, bless it and ask yourself, How can I turn this into rich compost? What is my opportunity here? How can I re-purpose this? Where is the beauty in this manic scene? What’s my lesson? What else is possible? How can I use what looks like crap today to create a bigger (less crappy) tomorrow?

      Dream Droppings is divided into four parts: Motivation, Logistics/Systems, Money and Energy; and each chapter contains four main sections: Droppings, Notes from the Field, Fertilizing Thoughts and Inspirational Compost. Each chapter highlights a manure-esque situation every entrepreneur will face, or already has faced, aka—the Droppings—and real-life scenarios and insights on how to shovel your way out of the crap and start creating dream fertilizer. Many of the insights included in this book are based on my 20+ years of experience as a creative entrepreneur. I have also included the wisdom of other brave souls on the entrepreneurial path.

      Some chapters include a Crapveat section—this is my version of a caveat or warning. Occasionally, I will also take the reader on a Field Trip—a pertinent side story to illustrate a point. The Resources section at the end of the book includes some of my favorite books, as well as some of my favorite entrepreneurs and their websites. Take advantage of these resources and continue to learn and be inspired on the road to realizing your dreams.

      This Field Guide is to here to cheer you on daily as you celebrate your artistic spirit and embrace your inner alchemist! Succeeding as an entrepreneur can be challenging and this book is designed to support you when it hits the fan.

      Keep it handy and let it whisper to you every day:

      • You are not alone.

      • There are solutions.

      • Seek and cultivate a support network.

      • Keeping your sense of humor REALLY helps.

      In closing, let me leave you with a touching sentiment inspired by my father, Warren Alan White (a former Marine), who would send us kids off to school every morning with the same marching orders: Hold on to your lunch money and remember...don’t let the bastards get you down.

      I think both apply here.

      Go Forth and Fertilize!

      Karyn Ruth White

      Part One: Motivation

      It’s Already Real

      Droppings

      I’m having difficulty believing that what I’m creating or want to create has any real value.

      Notes from the Field

      Sound familiar?

      A few years ago I composed a song on my piano, a simple piece, but it was something I was really proud of accomplishing. When I played it for my friend Nancy Noonan (a speaker on the art of mastery, www.nancynoonan.com), she was really impressed. Surprised, I asked, Really? You like it? Does it sound like a real song?

      Does it sound like a real song? I’ve given this question a great deal of thought. Why wouldn’t it sound like a real song? I wrote it and then I played it. That makes it a real song! So here’s the thing: if you create something, it is already real. As I write these words, this book isn’t yet published, but in my mind that doesn’t make it any less real.

      When it came to creating this book, I got blocked a few times along the way because I allowed myself to get paralyzed by the idea of writing a BOOK. I finally realized that what I had to say was important and maybe it could help someone. So this is how I got myself going again: I thought, I am going to write this book for an audience of one—me. Even if I self-publish just one copy and put it on the shelf over my desk. That alone would give me a great deal of satisfaction. This visual helped me to stay focused on creating. Instead of an imaginary crowd of people waiting to evaluate my book, my writing inspiration became a personal, special audience of one. I figured that if I liked the book, maybe a few other people might like it also, and that would be great. But even if they didn’t, it no longer mattered because I knew who I was writing for.

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