Helping people who'll also help themselves

Pivoting

Note: A version of this post was first published at Wandering Porcupine, when I shared plans to shift the focus of the business. If you’re new here, or you came looking for the simpler web, this post provides the backstory you might use to gauge what you can gain from A Fearless Venture. The importance … Read more

Tuoia Framing & Gallery on Broad Street in Douglasville, GA

Tuoia Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting

What a warm, wonderful spirit of celebration there was in Downtown Douglasville yesterday! Tuoia, a gallery, custom frame shop and boutique, had its official Grand Opening to-do and Douglas County Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting. The shop has been open for a couple of months now, so a lot of area folks have become acquainted … Read more

High Cotton Wine & Cheese Co. Website

Walkin’ in High Cotton today

The wine, cheese, charcuterie, dessert & coffee (OMG could it get any better?) shop is open, the website is live, we just wrapped a Google Hangout for the first half of training, and Highlands, NC’s High Cotton Wine & Cheese Co. is looking good. Paige, daughter of owner Sherry and designer of the great-looking High Cotton … Read more

Learning experience

Third and last in a series of recently-purchased posters by AtiKuSDesign.

The best way to predict the future…

Such an obvious truth. Do we really need a poster? Well, some of us must or there wouldn’t be a market for posters that remind us of obvious truths. OK – yes, I bought it.

The 80/20 rule, time management & productivity

The time we spend on our most gratifying and profitable tasks typically accounts for only 20% of our working hours; the rest of our time is spent “toiling away on the kind of work that offers a low (or non-existent) return.”

Their lives, their fortunes & their sacred honor

American flag at the courthouse in Douglas County, GA Photo by Teresa Rosche Ott IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to … Read more