When everyone seems better than you are
My nearly eight-year-old son Sam crushes us all in a memory matching game. You know, those games where you set out cards face down, and there are matching pairs of pictures, in this case your friendly neighborhood Spiderman and some of his villains. The best I can do playing Sam is tie him— I’ve only […]
After the push…
Quick Note: Today is the deadline to start in September, next Monday, for either Foundations1: Clients and Money or Foundations2: Expand Your Reach. Super affordable in-depth programs aimed at the first two stages of business development. I have to admit that the past couple of weeks I haven’t been very motivated to work. This crazy, […]
When you don’t feel like you’re really contributing
This past weekend the blues were hitting me hard. I was feeling aimless, exhausted, spent, but also restless and somewhat hopeless. I recognized this in both myself, and from working with clients. So many people start to feel aimless, hopeless, almost “depressed” (I put it in quotes not to confuse it with the much more […]
[Video] Love in… everything?
Our star practitioner, Yollana Shore, has been on a deep adventure into the wilds of business, taking on, as a partner, the start-up and revitalization of a resort on an island off Australia. At the far end of an intense experience that involved a lot of hands on work, including creating/hiring a new staff, and making […]
The pain of ending when you want to get going
I’m surrounded by boxes, my clothes are still piled on the floor because we haven’t gotten dressers yet, and while we did start cooking again, it’s more pasta and hamburgers rather than full-on cooking a meal. Yes, we finally moved into our new house at White Hawk Ecovillage this past Friday! Woo-HOO! This weekend is […]
Listening to Feedback from your Business
Before we get into the article, I want to point out that yesterday we introduced a brand new program! It’s for folks who have progressed a bit along the business path and are confronting the 3 unsexiest, and yet most critical, topics of business if you want to accelerate your growth. Check it out here: […]
How to stop working the end of December
Earlier this week at Heart of Business we had the end of November conversation: What do we need to do to make sure we can really stop working at the end of the year? For years now I’ve aspired to not work from mid-December until early January. Some years I’ve been successful at that. Other […]
In the face of terror, finding both love and justice
Hey there, beloved, I’m hearing from a lot of people who are feeling fear, encountering fear. The terrorist acts in Beirut and Paris, as well as a hundred other places we may never hear of, weigh heavily on the heart. Tomorrow is the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving, which, I mentioned earlier this week, has very […]
How to say no to (seemingly) reasonable requests you don’t want to do
Updated 3/17/21 When you’re new, or your business is really slow, you say “Yes” to everything that comes your way, which is a fine strategy. However, when your business starts to work and you get busier, you must learn to say “No” which is related to getting past overgiving. The issue isn’t just saying “No.” […]