The Intention behind content creation
When working on your business, it’s so very easy to fall into a mindset that forgets the sacred, forgets the love, especially when you’re just trying to make your business work. We all do it. However, that fall is what makes it so much harder to actually get it done. This video will hopefully help […]
Dissuading clients from hiring me
Since we’ve got this Sacred Selling course coming up, I’ve been thinking a lot about sales, quite naturally. I was reflecting, one morning, on something I had started to do a few years back during conversations with potential clients. I started to do it organically, sincerely, it was never a “tactic.” It was this: dissuading […]
On the sacredness of selling
As I wrote about recently, my wife Holly and I had a miserable experience with a car salesperson, that just didn’t have to be that way. People like that just contribute to the misery in the world, and it’s why so many heart-centered folks hate sales and selling. Sales is absolutely unavoidable in business, and […]
And what else? On handing off tasks…
Today this is a relatively simple “tip,” about delegating/handing off tasks and projects to others. Even if you stay at the solo level throughout your entire business, and many do, quite happily, there will come a time when you need some support. Not an employee, but perhaps a virtual assistant, or some other very part-time […]
A thirst for justice
Here in the U.S. there has been an absolutely miserable mess of a political situation happening, and I’ve been seeing the same thing in other countries. It can take up a lot of emotional bandwidth, as well as time and energy, appropriately, as we seek to find ways to respond. It can also leave you […]
Don’t put these two filters in your marketing message
Over the last twenty years I’ve talked to so many people who, in trying to create a marketing message, add two particular things in that really undermine what they are wanting. In fact, it can actually send you the exact opposite of the kind of client you’re looking for. The two things have to do […]
A very strong recommendation to anyone doing transformational work
In our Learning Community, I’m offering a new module on Running Groups in your Business. After making a teaching video on the topic of safety in groups, I realized I needed to create an addendum on the topic of diversity. I tried several takes, and I wasn’t able to say what I wanted. Finally, I made […]
The Entrepreneur vs The Artist in business
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to creating a business. Many people lean toward one or the either, which is fine. But if you’re at an extreme with one or another, it can really undermine your business. My spiritual path talks about “the middle way,” and it applies in this case, too. About 6 minutes. […]
When confronted with cancellation or refund requests.
Right at the moment that something significant is happening in your personal life, or even something significant in your business, something that is consuming, upsetting, or otherwise just occupying most of your attention, it happens. Someone asks for a refund, or a cancellation. They need to be responded to in a timely fashion, usually same […]
When you have unsustainable volunteer commitments
So… a few weeks ago, in a Virtual Retreat within our Learning Community, one of our members brought up a topic that was heart-rending for her, really, really hard to find resolution. I’ve been wanting to bring to you all since then, but it’s messy, it’s nuanced, and I don’t have an easy 1-2-3 answer […]