small business — Blog — Amy J Schultz

Harvesting the tree

Neither Malcolm Gladwell nor Dr. Heinz Weihrich nor your business school prof approved this, but I still think I’m on to something.

Beef jerky and ambiguity

When you do one thing really, really well your entire life
and then you stop doing it, what do you do next?

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Storytelling, Travel, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 23, 2017artist, Florida, retire, Christmas, community, Iowa, beef jerky, meme, possibility, comfort zone, road trip, new normal, future, hope, milestone, journey, learn, optimism, transition, drive, small business, shop, auto, mechanic, ambiguity, plan, idea, time, dream, think

Forward motion

A road trip in faithfully unfaithful Big Bertha reinforced the truism that two people faced with the same problem will, almost without exception, find different ways of solving it.

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Travel, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 22, 2017auto, art festival, artist, van, drive, business, big bertha, small business, company car, Ford, road trip, journey, start up, Texas, problem, problem solving, surprise, wimberley, austin, solution, moral, transmission, mechanic

Out of character

If you ever decide to do something that’s “out of character” for you, think about your soft opening.
In other words, how will you launch before you launch?

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Start Up, Storytelling, Travel, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 22, 2017St. Louis, Missouri, big bertha, van, road trip, business, small business, start up, photography, art, art festival, artist, Queeny Park, SLCC, friend, Texas, soft opening, out of character, dream, experience, Ford, humor, journey, learn, plan, booth

And there we were...

It was as though we traveled those 1300 miles riding inside a giant Easy Bake Oven. On the outside it looks harmless enough, but on the inside, that 60-watt bulb can maliciously bake a cake.