Learning the Foreign Language of Business
Quick reminder: I’m teaching a free call today, Wednesday January 29, from 1 p.m .to 2:15 p.m. pacific on the ending struggle to bring in clients and money. If you are already receiving our mini-series on this topic, you have, or will receive, the call-in information by email. If you haven’t signed up for the […]
How Spiritual Opening Creates Business Movement
We’ve been going through a particularly challenging transition at Heart of Business, one that is helping us evolve and grow as a true team. In some ways we’re shedding some of the last vestiges of the solopreneur childhood that was, and stepping into the true team that is now. Similarly, something has been happening with […]
A Voice for Sanity in 2014 and Reorganizing HoB
January! Get busy! Raise your hand if that’s your internal voice, too. The common business culture’s theme says, “More, faster, now.” The result of that theme is peak oil, climate change, auto-immune diseases, burnout, and a civilization that ignores and desecrates beauty in so many ways. At Heart of Business we are part of the […]
So, what do you really want in 2013?
As the end of 2012 draws close, I’ve been asking myself deeply… What do I really want? This inquiry was given to me by Gangaji, at a spiritual retreat many years ago. And whenever I have turned my attention to it, it has always, always served me. For most entrepreneurs, when we think about what […]
The Tender Art of Niching: No-Cost PDF Download
I wanted to share a portion of a lesson from our Momentum Course, on the Tender Art of Niching. It’s maddening the way all those professional marketers say: “Well, first pick a niche, and then…” ERRRRRRrrrr! Hold everything, buddy! Don’t move on, I’m still stuck on step one!
When the Divine is Far Away From Your Business
In a recent Spiritual Nourishment call for the Heart of Business Alumni Community, a question came up from one of our members about being too agitated or upset to access the experience of sweetness, peace and wisdom that she was used to in spiritual practice. This can be a real problem when big decisions in […]
Beets, Miserable Meetings and Your Micro Business
This week we have a long-overdue team retreat for Heart of Business. We found a perfect house on AirBnB to rent for three days, and even the two members who can’t be here live will be Skyping in to participate. For two and a half days we’re going to be digging into the project sprawl […]
My Big Business Decision and What It Revealed
It’s been a hard year or so. Back in December of 2010 our then-operations manager, Kate, left to pursue a career in counseling. A fantastic choice, and it left Heart of Business with a skeleton crew. We thought we found a replacement by April. Not so bad, a few months of bridging, and we’re off […]
The Formula Behind the Formula
Any spiritual teacher will pull this fast one on you: give completely different answers to the exact same question. Yet, rarely do we see the same thing in business. Usually there is a formula given. Follow the formula and it all comes out happy. Nope. Except when it does work. Totally confusing and wild. What […]
Why It’s Hard For Me to Be Cheerful Sometimes
I realize that I get caught in a trap: a trap of being reactionary. There is so much pop-spirituality-business stuff out there promoting a “feel happy be successful” agenda that I realize I sometimes take the opposite stance. I tend to make radical and off-putting statements like: Neediness is your doorway to abundance, and poverty […]