Why Your Business Needs Two Types of Accountability
The tide’s coming in, fast. Your kayak is there on the sand, starting to get gently nudged. Meanwhile you’re flat out on a beach towel. Hot sun. Cool breeze. Iced tea. Are you going to get up in time to save your kayak from floating out to sea? Your business may be calling, all kinds […]
Why You Keep Missing Those Darn Business Goals
You have goals in your business, I’m sure. Whether it’s about getting more clients, raising your income, or completing a product, you’re trying to get something done, usually by a deadline. (When’s the mortgage due?) And yet, in going for a goal, you might sometimes begin to feel… twisted, or off–balance. Out of alignment with […]
The Night Ride
This past weekend I rode in a Portland tradition called The Night Ride. Sponsored by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) in Oregon, they hold a variety of fun rides throughout the year, including the Bridge Pedal which attracts 12,000 riders. The Night Ride had about 1200 riders. Proper attire was “pajamas or costumers” and I […]
Creating Coherence In Your Product Offers.
We finally shipped out The Sacred Moment HomeStudy Course on Friday- or at least most of them- there are a few more to go out this week. Like I said in the last post, creating a quality product, especially a premium product, is a real labor of love and takes a great deal of focus, […]
When Your Business Gets Beyond "Start-Up’
As surprising as it is inevitable, your business will eventually find itself beyond the ‘start-up’ phase. You’ll have gotten the knack of marketing, creating offers and products, and you’ll have a steady flow of customers and clients and cash. And more. And more. And the momentum begins to build on itself. You used to be […]
The Uphill Climb of Creating Products
I’m taking a short break from some audio editing for our soon-to-be-released audio seminar The Sacred Moment: How to talk to potential clients with integrity and heart, and still get paid. It was a tremendous two-day seminar I led here in Portland in April… aside from the technical glitches. Which were so bad, that we […]
Making Friends with Death for the Sake of Your Business
I’ve recently been re-reading a surprise favorite book of mine, Conscious Golf by Gay Hendricks. In it, there is a section where he discusses how leaving things incomplete in your life, and in your business, can drain a lot of energy. This has always been true for me, and I’ve been meditating on it more […]
Breaking Perfectionism
Kathy Hendershot-Hurd writing over at Virtual Impax made a brilliant post about defetaing perfectionism. Now, I’ve worked with myself and my clients around the issue of doing it ‘good enough’ and letting go of perfectionism. But, I love what she wrote: I know that I had worked on the issue with several coaching professionals, each […]
Taking the Biggest Piece
One of my newest favorite blogs, Juggling Frogs, has a recent post: Greta’s strudel crust speaks to me. Carolyn is talking about her internal ‘maternal monologue’ about when to break consistency with her three-year-old Greta around second servings, and table manners. These two questions caught me: When is it appropriate to grab the best part […]
The Missing Ingredient Before You Launch a New Offer
Have you ever had a whiz-bang idea, and you’re ready to launch it out in the world? A book, a class, a program, something you’re wanting to contribute to the greater whole through your business? And you get it 90% done. In fact, you could have it done in time for tomorrow, 9am. But you […]