Declare Your Brilliance

How to Set H.E.A.R.T. – S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Aug 31st, 2010 | By Martha Carnahan | Category: Declare Your Brilliance, Entrepreneurs

If I’m “about” anything, it’s to promote the idea of:  Happiness for Everyone.
Sounds idealistic, you might be saying, but I don’t care what you think. Because, well, this mission makes me happy.
One area in which I attend to this idealistic mission – and I admit I picked a tough venue – is:  The [...]



Fetching? Guarding? Herding? What’s Your Natural Talent?

Mar 18th, 2010 | By Martha Carnahan | Category: Declare Your Brilliance, Entrepreneurs

I truly get off on witnessing a talent shared and embraced. It’s a beautiful thing.
Let’s start with dog competitions. I swear, I cry at dog shows and agility trials. There is something about seeing the natural instincts of a particular breed come to life that makes me weep.
I once watched a television show where puppies [...]



I Heart Engineers

Apr 24th, 2009 | By Martha Carnahan | Category: Declare Your Brilliance, Entrepreneurs

When I worked for an A/E (that’s Architecture & Engineering) firm as director of corporate communications, I had the privilege of learning what engineering is really all about.
On the surface, engineers seem like logical, rational-thinking, super smart people. And they are!  But engineers are also highly creative and intuitive, full of imagination. They see the [...]