Monday Heart Stuff #2

Aha! It’s the second week of this Monday Heart Stuff, so maybe it will be a tradition after all. What with an extreme delay over re-launching The Business Oasis (note: ended in November 2010), as well as several other smaller projects that have been sliding, I’ve been feeling like a bit of a boo-hickey in terms of consistency. So getting this out makes me feel better, if nothing else.

No More Square Wheels. Or Round Wheel, Either.

Considering the next class is all about No More Square Wheels, some intrepid reader sent me this:

“A new bicycle reinvents the wheel, with a pentagon and triangle.”

Interesting… For the heart: What are you doing in your business that everyone else is doing the exact same way because it’s “accepted wisdom.” And maybe, just maybe you could do something else?

How to Get Any Work Done (When Connecting Is Your Job)

The fabulous, pink-haired marketing maven Sonia Simone, who is also one of the people running the incredibly popular Copyblogger as well as a teacher over at Teaching Sells (which I’ll talk about their one-day $750,000 sell-out in this Wednesday’s article), takes on the big bugaboo in social media: time.

Lots of people have talked about productivity. But, the truth is, the interwebs are on 24-7, and we’re expected to appear to be everywhere all at once.

Except when you’re a mom, and a human being, occasionally you want to do something else other than tweet or write on a blog. How does she handle?

How to Get Any Work Done (When Connecting Is Your Job)

I have to admit to being a bit in the weeds on this one, too. Her article prompted me to download an egg timer Mac desktop widget.

For the heart: Are you managing the overwhelming flow? How are you deciding when to do what and for how long? Do you have the support to interrupt yourself?

Hooking Up With the Big Fish

Dave Navarro, the Launch Coach, co-author of “How to Launch the **** Out of Your eBook” takes on a delightful subject: connecting with influential people to help launch your business.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I think that strategic alliances are really the most powerful way to get your business out in the world. A strategic alliance, to be clear, is when someone who loves and trusts you then introduces your work, especially a specific offer, to their community/list.

Through strategic alliances word of the Heart of Money course reached over 100,000 people. Nice. We’re hoping for a similar reach for the Heart of Business Momentum.

Anyway, all of this was a three-paragraph rambling way to say that Dave has written a no-nonsense, clear, open-heart way to begin to build relationships of integrity with influential people you admire.

For the heart: How are you giving to the people you admire? Just that simple question. Once you’ve answered that, it will be easier to find an open path to how to actually approach them.

Inspired Organizing from Jen Hofmann

Once upon a time my office was a mess. A real mess. an overwhelmed dirty, dingy mess. Well, maybe not dirty and dingy- but I couldn’t find anything, I had a stack of papers that I never looked through, and I just felt oppressed by stuff.

Now, no one could say my office is the picture-perfect. But that’s okay. It’s me. I know where things are. I have a flow. And there is beauty. I’m so much more organized than I was.

All due to Jen Hofmann. Jen is a sweet heart, and a sharp, sharp person with a lot of compassion and a deep understanding of how to help you organize in a way that is intuitive for you.

She’s running a course. Inspired Organizing. Is your office a mess? Do you feel oppressed by stuff? Do you need your office to really work? Grab one of the last four spots. Only do it today, because it’s the early-bird price.

And before she takes my advice and doubles her price. Triples, really.

So long for Monday! And while you’re musing, don’t forget to sign up for The Heart of Business Moment. That is, if you were going to. ’cause the early-bird deadline is this coming Friday.