Losing a Team Member: Big Changes
This is a little lengthy, because the story it tells is not a sound-bite, although it has rich learnings about business and truth. It also is a bit of a confessional, of my own mistakes and learnings. The Short Story Version Kate resigned. We went into emotional turmoil. Big insights and learnings. We’re reconfiguring Opening […]
How Are You With This Critical Business Skill?
How do you do with receiving criticism, negative feedback, news that something isn’t working, or someone telling you they don’t like something you’ve done? No one likes to hear these things. But if you run a business, you need to hear this kind of feedback with an open heart and mind. The trouble is that […]
Choice Versus Guidance in Business
There seem to be two camps in the world of doing your own thang and being self-employed. One camp, which has overall tendencies for being less woo-woo, proclaims you are powerful, can make powerful choices, shouldn’t follow the herd, need to be an individual. It’s all about making choices and forging your own path. The […]
A First Sloppy Video
This is so long overdue, folks. First, it took me forever to actually get a video camera (yes, that’s an Amazon affiliate link) that’s easy to use. I love the camera- it is easy to use. And it’s got an external audio miniplug, which is just dreamy. Then, I got shy- what in the heck […]
The Role Model Lineup
Dublin, Ohio. Our boys are sleeping peacefully on the hotel room bed after two days of stress. The day before we spent getting ready to leave, which included buying about a million pounds of dry ice to ship with gallons of frozen, home-made baby formula (the goat milk version). Then, all day yesterday flying with […]
Three Years to Nowhere
Three years ago I made a big decision. I was confronted with whether I wanted to keep Heart of Business as it was–basically my personal practice and the classes I taught–or whether I wanted to build a company. I spent time in Remembrance. I listened to my heart. And what I saw was that I […]
Addicted to Breakthroughs
Three people died after participating in a sweat lodge at a nine thousand dollar “spiritual warrior” retreat led by James Arthur Ray, a self-appointed motivational speaker, who appeared in the law of attraction movie, “The Secret.” The allegations are that a culture of pressure from the leader to “break through limitations” coupled with a poorly […]
Revisiting Moses on Teaching
This week the Heart of Business Momentum course began, AND we relaunched the Business Oasis (it was badly in need of a facelift since it’s original launch in 2005). Crazy busy. So I gave myself the mercy of reprinting an article. And it is a good reminder for me, because it’s all about teaching, getting […]
My Grandfather’s Legacy: Planting Your Flag
Note: This article was originally published to my ezine list in November, 2004. I’m adding it to my blog now because, with the birth of our twin sons, one of whom was named after my grandfather, and the full-on blast of retail holiday season, I’m thinking of him, and thinking of 2009. I want to […]