Is Tithing the Road to Abundance or New Age Nonsense?
You may be familiar with the principle of tithing–giving a certain percentage of your earnings to those in need. You may have also heard that what you give will come back to you twice-over, three-times over, seven-fold, or ten-fold. Different traditions have different formulas. Some people swear by it. Others just end up swearing as […]
Help! I'm lazy!
A client I heard from recently was complaining about how he wasn’t getting critical money-related tasks done in his business: “My problem is that I’m lazy–I just can’t seem to stay focused or get started on doing the important things.” It’s no wonder he thought this–all the messages coming at us from popular culture tell […]
How to Eat Like An Entrepreneur
If you’ve been following by ezine or the blog, then you know my life has been a little crazy lately. Between twins, my very, very ill mother-in-law, and lots going on in the business, it’s been hard to maintain my center. From the email and flurry of comments on the blog, this state of craziness […]
The Most Wearing Two Weeks Imaginable
About two weeks ago, my wife Holly and I planned our first date, with friends watching our boys, since November 11, 2008- which is when our aforementioned adopted twin sons were born. If you’re a parent, especially a parent of twins, or know someone, you know why five months had gone by without a date. […]
Don't Forget to Tend to Your Personal Infrastructure
Two weeks ago, a month ago, year ago, if I’d woken full of restive thoughts at 4:30 a.m., I likely would’ve headed for my computer to check my email, spin off on the 50 things I wanted to get done during the day, and begun ticking off inconsequential tasks. An hour would pass, and I’d […]
When Your Business Needs You to Write, and You Balk
Write. Write. Write. I do it all day long sometimes. A lot of the time actually, and my work has nothing directly to do with writing. As a trained writer and editor, I think of writing as a craft or business in itself. Yet, I actually write as much or more helping run Heart of […]
Back Where We Belong
We’ve arrived at home, at last, in Portland. (Curious about the journey? Start here. Then read here.) Luggage on the floor of my office, baby clothes, bottles, toys, diapers strewn everywhere. Just enough time to sleep a very tiny bit, get a little bit grounded, and then teach a class yesterday. Today I’m teaching again, […]
The Twins Have Arrived…
If you’ve been following this blog, then you may have read how my wife and I are following our hearts into insanity, times two. Well, they are born, and several weeks earlier even than expected. Twins normally are “due” about 36 weeks (as opposed to single kids, who are due at 40 weeks). Well, Samuel […]
Following Our Hearts Into Insanity (Times Two)
For those of you who don’t know, for just about a year now my wife Holly and I have been in the process of adopting a child. It’s been a rocky, heart-breaking, exhilarating and expensive process. Suddenly, it’s happening. And, what’s more, it’s not even happening through our adoption agency. Let Me Give You Some […]
I Did a Blogging No-No
Basically, I disappeared for three weeks, since my last post. Let me give you the bullet-point update: • We’re in the process of adopting a child. We had a 2, TWO, almost-adoptions in the last month, and it really spun us emotionally. We’re okay, but it took up a lot of my creative/thinking space. • […]