My cat’s answer to how to keep from making mistakes
Updated 4/21/22 At 4 a.m. our cat, Rafi, comes mewing and yowling into our room, waking up both Holly and me. I yell and hiss at him, and then realize I’m not getting back to sleep. Holly tells me, “Don’t you let him out!” It’s my fault, because I have let him out when I […]
[Video] Embracing What’s Here Now
This week I’m actually at the beach with my family, my sister’s family and my parents. We’re on the boardwalk, taking our kids to the same place my parents took my sister and I when we were little. It’s been an annual pilgrimage for years now, and even more of a joy now that we […]
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Live retreat with Mark: The Heart Sessions in November near Ithaca! A small group of no more than 16 business owners will come retreat, in person, with Mark for 4 nights and 3 days outside Ithaca, New York. The evening of Nov 15 through the morning of Nov 19, 2016. Click here if you want […]
Activism, Business and what my mentor told me
One of our clients recently came to the decision to stop participating in a volunteer project in order to focus on her business. This was a hard decision to come to, and because she was the lead on that project, it means risking that no one else will step into the void and the project […]
One of the most dreaded questions I get asked
I’ve been in this business development/training game since 1999, and since then I have worked with thousands of small business owners, and I’ve been asked many, many questions. In my prior career, in the first 3 years of being a paramedic, I went from being nervous about every call, to feeling pretty confident that I […]
The adventure of being professionally filmed
In an example of Divine Timing, this past weekend Scott Gleason Blue came up to Ithaca, New York, to film me for a project that’s been long overdue. The experience of being filmed was really interested for a number of reasons, but I want to focus on one reason today. You see, Blue has decades of […]
Too Sad to Work – Heart-Care First
It’s Monday morning, as I write this. I’m supposed to be working. I have calls scheduled. I have things to do, people to communicate with, and projects to move forward. In this moment, however, I feel utterly sad, numb, grief, loneliness, anger and fear – all in a mixed, tumultuous soup. I’m horrified at what […]
[Video] Love in… everything?
Our star practitioner, Yollana Shore, has been on a deep adventure into the wilds of business, taking on, as a partner, the start-up and revitalization of a resort on an island off Australia. At the far end of an intense experience that involved a lot of hands on work, including creating/hiring a new staff, and making […]
[Video Guest] Making networking fun
A past client, colleague and friend Leif Hansen, the Spark Guy, is our guest author this week. Leif does tremendous work with organizations and individuals around bringing spark and creativity into your work. Part of his background is in improv, and I did a stellar workshop with him some years ago, up in Seattle. I […]
The pain of ending when you want to get going
I’m surrounded by boxes, my clothes are still piled on the floor because we haven’t gotten dressers yet, and while we did start cooking again, it’s more pasta and hamburgers rather than full-on cooking a meal. Yes, we finally moved into our new house at White Hawk Ecovillage this past Friday! Woo-HOO! This weekend is […]