My good friend and co-collaborator Leif Hansen, passed along an article from the Harvard Business Review on 37signals.com (who created the award-winning app Highrise, which we use religiously).
Here’s the gist of the article, quoting founders Jason Fried and his colleague David Heinemeier Hansson:
“No, less is less—because more is not better! Everyone tries to do too [...]

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I want to riff off of the post I put up the end of April, How Productivity Contributes to Global Warming and Debt. The issue, as I was talking about then, was capacity. And yet, there’s an awful lot of things to get done in business.
This week’s article addresses the myth that I also touch [...]

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Abundance in business is alluring- but how much do we need? Often we don’t think of our own capacity before asking for more and more and more…
And, we also don’t ask- is what we’re receiving fundamentally nourishing, that we would want more of it?
When I’m looking for more in my business- more subscribers, more sales, [...]

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There’s not a lot new to say about time management that
hasn’t already been said. If you live in our technology-driven
western culture, and aren’t yet spiritually enlightened, there’s a
huge chance that you are one of the horde of overwhelmed,
exhausted, overworked people.
One of the participants in the Moneyflow course recently
posted a list of goals for the month, [...]

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If someone were drowning in front of you, everything else would fall out of focus. Suddenly, all the trivial little things really are trivial, and you drop everything to help this poor soul who is going down for the third time. If you don’t act right now, and forget about everything else, they’ll be gone, [...]

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Just when I was hoping to make a commitment to my blogging, I find myself totally struck down by the flu. 10 days of illness, including 5+ days of high fever and delirium.
I have to admit that one of the themes that kept rising to the surface was deep gratitude for Heart of Business. [...]

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We saw a movie last night called The Real Dirt On Farmer John. It’s an inspiring movie of a man, John Peterson, who grew up on a family farm in Illinois through the fifties and sixties until now. It’s an inspiring movie about how someone with persistence, an ability to see things differently, and willingness [...]

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