Dump This One Thing To Increase Energy and Time and Decrease Overwhelm
Opening the Moneyflow Six Month Program starts in July. Early bird this Monday. Recently I’ve been on a kick around accessing power. It’s such a tricky subject, because power is necessary, and yet it has a tendency to corrupt, to take us out of our hearts, to be used in ways that Mom wouldn’t approve […]
Why I Sometimes Just Stand There Not Saying Anything
Yesterday was day one of the Sacred Moment 2011 live seminar. I was going to write this last night, but after playing with my kids, eating dinner, and trying to find a little space to integrate after holding the space for around 40 people to do deep inner work around sales and business, I fell […]
Some Sufi Love for V-Day
One of my favorite love poems is a short one from Hafiz, which appears in The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky. Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that–it lights up the whole sky. As beautiful as that is, I […]
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 […]
4:30 a.m. push
Today, Friday October 29, is the final day in a two-week “push.” I recently watched a very moving video of Scott Stratten‘s talk “Keep Going Until We Stop.” It’s very moving and a fantastic commentary on what in the heck is so painful about our culture. You can see the video here: His talk touched […]
More on Letting Go and Moving Forward in Business
We were having dinner recently with friends who also have twins our boys’ age. After dinner, the four toddlers were creating havoc away from the kitchen so it was my chance to get the dishes into the dishwasher without them using it as a jungle gym. The father of the other twins is a project […]
Quick Love Notes
I don’t pretend to put myself on a level with those amazing masters of Love Rumi and Hafiz, but I was inspired by bits of their poetry this morning and mixed in some things that came to me with gems from them. I trust you’ll enjoy them. And perhaps add your own. -Mark Spirituality is […]
Finding Freedom in Business
As you may know, I spent last week in a residential study retreat that is part of a Masters of Divinity program in Spiritual Ministry and Sufi Studies. I spent a week with my spiritual teachers and the other students in a remote rural area in northern California, immersed in learning about love. One of […]
The Two Costs of Being Heart-Centered In Business
Being heart-centered, following spirit, connecting to Source seems to be all the rage these days in certain small business circles. And why not? It seems so fun, so nourishing, and it certainly seems to be effective. What gets glossed over are the costs of being heart-centered. You may already be familiar with the pain of […]
Video Challenge Day Eight
Day eight! It’s like the end of Hanukah, except there’s one more day. 🙂 Today was my day to experiment with B roll. If you don’t know what b roll is, watch this video that BrantC showed me. Today I dug into strategy, spirituality, living in the moment, and planning. In other words… is strategy […]