Lately I have been pulling together information and ideas for a series of three calls I will offer along with Lisa Tarrant for people in the Outside the Job Box Career Design Consultant program offered by Valerie Young at ChangingCourse.com. In Valerie’s program people learn the approach she has used for years as a creative career and small business design consultant.

The purpose of the calls will be to help the self-study participants get very clear about their vision for the future, specifically what they want their work to look like as a creative career consultant. Then we’re going to talk about how to define specific goals to reach the vision, and break the goals into achievable steps. I want the participants to stay focused on their plans so they can establish and grow their businesses.

Since I’m gathering resources to offer the consultants in training, I was thrilled, but not surprised, to see a recent post by Jobless Muse Barbara Winter titled Building a Hothouse for Your Dreams. Barbara is gifted at nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit. She knows the key to growing small businesses is to grow small business owners. Here she offers eight keys entrepreneurs can use for lifelong growth.