How to Be a Hero for Your Business in 2011
When I was an adolescent, World War II fascinated me. The combination of the ever-present memory of the Holocaust in my synagogue coupled with a boy’s fascination for blowing things up led me to read all kinds of exciting histories of the war in Europe and the Pacific. I returned to that recently in reading […]
The All-Everything 2010 Round-Up
I have two half-written posts that are going to stay half-written for this simple reason: illness has visited our home. I was sick all last week, and then my wife Holly went down on Friday, and we were wiped out all weekend. While parenting two insanely energetic toddlers. It’s been fun. Don’t send flowers, just […]
BB Guns and Guidance
In 1993, when I was still a rookie paramedic, our ambulance responded to a rural location in Solano County, California, for an “unknown medical.” What we found were three adolescent boys who had been playing with a BB gun, and one of them had shot the second one. The third boy had finally, after more […]
Disaster–Email Black Hole
Yesterday, Friday, all of us on the team realized that we weren’t getting any email. Email normally comes in at a fairly steady clip all day every day, and yet there was nothing nohow nowhere. We figured out the problem and got it fixed, but the end result is that there was an email black hole between Thursday […]
The Real Reason It’s So Dang Hard to Go Against the Herd (And How to Do It Anyway)
A friend of mine admitted that there was a tipping point she passed in terms of blog readership, where suddenly it exploded. She said there wasn’t anything she did, it’s just that once she had a certain large number of readers, everyone else wanted in. We see this dynamic play out again and again. As […]
Why Paint-By-Number Rarely Works In Business
Quick Intro: No-cost call tomorrow “Six Months: Go!” Join us tomorrow, (or at least register so you get the recording if it’s too late to fit it in), for a free call on how to make the most of the first half of 2011, including where to focus, what your business needs, and a teaching […]
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 […]
Choice Versus Guidance in Business
There seem to be two camps in the world of doing your own thang and being self-employed. One camp, which has overall tendencies for being less woo-woo, proclaims you are powerful, can make powerful choices, shouldn’t follow the herd, need to be an individual. It’s all about making choices and forging your own path. The […]
Does Every Massage Therapist Really Need a Blog?
When I was a kid, I watched my dad sketching out ads every week. Every week, 52 of ’em in a year, the family store would run an ad in the Washington Post. Long lists of names and numbers. It was only after I was an adult that my dad let me know those ads […]
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 […]