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 […]
Meandering out of the Multi-Week Business Blues
I was on a call with some folks in the Heart of Business community recently, and nearly every one of them mentioned that there were two things that happened at the same time. One was that they landed in a multi-week experience of depression, funk, the blues… The second was that they dropped their daily […]
The Five Things to Check When An Offer Doesn’t Sell
When you run a micro business you’re often on the edge of your seat with each offer. Will the class fill? Will clients come in? Will we make enough sales? When it works, it feels fantastic! And when it doesn’t, it’s scary and sometimes puzzling. What happened? Where are those clients? In those less-abundant times, […]
Where Discipline Counts the Most
Monday was the start of Ramadan, which means that for anyone who observes this Islamic month of fasting, there’s no food, water, gossip or sex between sunup and sundown. Most spiritual paths have something similar, whether it’s a month, a week, a day, or some other ascetic practice. Have you fasted before? If you haven’t, […]