The 5th week hack for business owner vacations
This month, July, has five weeks, and so I’m mentioning the fifth-week hack again, as I do from time to time. This is to emphasize how you can take significant time off every year, four whole weeks!, without disrupting your cashflow or client schedule in big ways. I think it’s worth mentioning that many, perhaps […]
Business lessons from a Sufi saint
Recently I was teaching about the Sufi saint Rabi’a of Basra in the Sufi Zawiya (zow-wee-ya) I convene monthly, and, as usual with this saint, tears came up and we were deeply moved. Although the Zawiya teaching isn’t quite right for today, I was remembering that I had made a video of a different, but related, […]
A Sufi blessing for the new year
In both the tradition of my birth, Judaism, and the spiritual practice of Islamic Sufism, blessings are a real thing, as they are in many traditions. The power of a blessing is, in one understanding, a supplication to the Oneness from which we all come and of which we are all expressions of, a supplication […]