"Are we there yet?" – How to create overnight success in your business
A person I admire has a very successful business. He’s sharp, personable, funny, smart, and helpful. And, the products and services he provides are top-notch. He’s sold thousands of them, and his business is operating at a level much higher than mine. Then he announced that he was celebrating three years in business. What! Only […]
How to Clear Deadly "Heart Blocks" In Your Business
I have a client who just broke through a haze of vagueness in her business. When she came to me, she had some extremely powerful skills, a sincere heart, but a floundering business. What was she vague about? She wasn’t vague about the skills she brought. Nor was she vague about the value she held […]
How to Stop Beating Up Your Business
I’m surprised we’re still together. I’d been cruel, insulting, and uncaring. I demanded more and more, and, at the same time, wanted to give less and less. Nothing satisfied me. Thank God I changed, because the relationship had been going down the tubes. Am I talking about my wife? No. My best friends? No. I’m […]
Help From a Drinking Buddy
For much of my life asking for help had always had the flavor of being led to the dentist’s chair- anxious, painful, control lost, and the results weren’t always immediately apparent. I remember asking for help when I was little, and being teased for not knowing- I can’t even remember what it was about, all […]
Forget About Cloning Yourself, You Can Still Learn How To Be Everywhere At Once
First, an apology. Without meaning to, I violated one of my own rules of writing- let people know what they are getting. Apparently, the way I formatted “Journey to Profit” made it difficult to tell that it was a reminder for my upcoming class Heart of Money: The Business Journey, and not a regular ezine. […]
You Aren't Screwing Up, You Just Need A Better Goal Than "Easy"
Don’t you wish building a business could be easier? Why does every step seem to hold a challenge for us? Well, let’s go back to late August, 2004, when my wife and I went out into the Columbia River Gorge, and hiked out to some natural hot “holes” – pools by the side of a […]
The Balancing Act
I found myself looking more closely at some of the individual clients I’ve worked with lately. Why do I choose in some sessions to focus almost entirely on action steps, and in other sessions we spend time mostly looking at emotional and spiritual issues? I find that both types of sessions are incredibly important in […]
Your Hidden Teacher
Like many of you, I sometimes wrestle with figuring out the next step in growing my business. For me, I realized that my next step had to do with inviting many more people onto this email list. I’ve been watching a friend of mine, Jason Stein, grow his email list rapidly through public speaking. The […]
Hitch Hiking Your Way to Success
If you’re like me, for as long as you can remember you’ve seen people who are more successful than you, and wondered how they got there. At least on a good day. On a bad day, you and I are just green with envy all over. Being green is not a good situation for your […]
A Solution to Overwhelm
If there is one thing that is completely common in small business, it’s overwhelm. We all get there at least occasionally, and some of us seem to have set up permanent residence. Unfortunately, the view ain’t so nice, and the rent is exhorbitant. When you are overwhelmed, your creativity plummets, your access to your intuition […]