When your energy drops and just can’t market
Here’s a really common dynamic: you’re getting ready to put something out there, like a new way of presenting your work, or a workshop, or a new product, or even your business as a whole. Then, the getting-ready involves gritting your teeth, pushing frantically, and doing a lot of high-energy “marketing” tasks to get the […]
[Video] The Power of Feedback + Systems
This week, our Director of Education and Community Manager Steve Mattus digs into his speciality – the deep dive of listening deeply to the heart, and then creating systems to support following through with what your heart tells you. He uses a personal and vulnerable example of a system he recently set up. I want […]
Your nervous system was not designed for this
Before the nervous system, a quick note: Tomorrow is a double deadline. One deadline is for the super early bird pricing to save $700 on Accelerating Growth, our newest program that begins in May. If your business has had some success but is hitting real limits, then you most likely need to make real […]
Not Impressed
Super short one today, partially because I was at my mastermind retreat this past weekend in San Diego and I’m STILL wiped out. I had 10 years of traveling to these retreats from Oregon to Washington or California, and now I’m traveling from Ithaca, NY to San Diego, and whoosh… I hadn’t anticipated how much […]
Trump, Sanders, and the dangers of carefulness
Here in the US we’re in the run-up to a presidential election… what? You already knew that? On behalf of all US citizens and our government I want to apologize for the oversized shadow our media circus casts over the rest of the world. It’s been strange, but I’ve watched in real fascination as a […]
Listening to Feedback from your Business
Before we get into the article, I want to point out that yesterday we introduced a brand new program! It’s for folks who have progressed a bit along the business path and are confronting the 3 unsexiest, and yet most critical, topics of business if you want to accelerate your growth. Check it out here: […]
My heart is very sad…
Hey there, Our beloved cat, Kira, who is 14 years old, is dying. She’s had cancer for some time, but it looks like she might not last – and, in fact, by the time you read this, we may have lost her. Please do not send personal emails. I’d love to see your wishes and […]
The Conference Game
I’m writing this in San Francisco from the Wisdom 2.0 conference- a crazy intersection of 3000 people from the tech industry and those engaged with wisdom traditions. Before I get into the game I played, I just want to be witnessed at how strange it was to be in San Francisco. I lived in the […]
The Healing of the Market Place
Today we have something special for you: a story! A real, honest-to-goodness story told by a master story teller. It’s story time! One of the things I know is true, is that if we’re going to change this culture of ours, we have to rewrite the stories. The power of story to change and heal […]
When you’re dreading leading team meetings
This is an important day for Heart of Business: the debut of Lincoln Wachtel in our newsletter. Lincoln deserves a little introduction, just so you know who you’re reading. Lincoln came to Heart of Business when I was burnt out and exhausted. He told me later he was really worried about me. My team had […]