The 3 Types of Business Work
I realized awhile ago that communication channels are becoming overwhelming. One person emails me, another texts. Then there are Facebook private messages, plus Twitter. More: hundreds of requested connections on LinkedIn that I haven’t answered because I don’t use LinkedIn (yet) even though I have an account. (By the way- the “yet” up above is […]
Make Your Offers Longer
For ten minutes I had been asking questions steadily of someone who had filled out one of our Readiness Assessments. I learned about many different aspects of her business fairly rapidly, and there were a few points I gave her about how to make her business more profitable, fairly easily. The one I want to […]
Playing the Long Game of Business
Recently I’ve been hearing from quite a few people who are in our core programs who have been in business for some time, 5 years, 9 years, 14 years, 20 years, who have been facing really significant business challenges. For some, their business had been successful, then it dried up. For others, the business was […]
Top 5 Heart-Centered Money Tips for 2015
The strange thing about calendars is that there’s more than one. Although we’ve just moved into 2015 according to the Gregorian calendar, the new year for the Jewish calendar, and the Islamic calendar, doesn’t start until the fall. The Hindi new year looks like it starts in late March, and the Chinese new year is […]
One new business practice for 2015
Recently someone asked me what was going to be different for me in 2015, what radical changes I was contemplating. I scratched my head and realized that I wasn’t contemplating any radical changes. With two kids in kindergarten, with Heart of Business moving forward steadily on the path we’re working, I wasn’t seeing the need […]
Holiday cheer
As things wind down for the year, and we at Heart of Business are taking some time unplugged between now and January 4, I’m hoping you are, too. Or, if this time of year isn’t your holiday season, I hope you do take some time soon. A recent discussion in an online group brought up […]
How to (not) extract learnings from misfortunes
This week is full of Hanukkah parties, and I’m looking forward to my first attempt at home-made donuts, which, if you didn’t know, can be included with potato latkes as a traditional Hanukah food. Solstice, Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and probably others, I’m sure. The end of the year’s holidays are predictably Northern-hemisphere-centric, focused on this […]
The 3 People Who Visit Your Website
Before I dig into the topic of websites, I feel like I have to express, again, the grief I have for my country, the United States, around the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and dozens, hundreds of other unarmed black men and teenagers killed by police. What does this have to do with business? […]
How to Unfreeze Your Business Writing
I’m so grateful for last week. The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, plus parent-teacher conferences, provided our family with a LOT of unscheduled time. Which. Was. Fantastic. I find that my life has high and low tides of scheduling. Sometimes my life feels very tightly scheduled with client sessions, teaching and team meetings, not to mention family […]
Two Years Later
Okay, I’m ready to embarrass myself in front of you. 🙂 Truthfully, I don’t feel embarrassed, but maybe I should. This first video is me, on the guitar. You see, two years ago, almost to the day, I made a similar video, but much worse. Here’s the video from now: For reference, here’s the video […]