Day eight! It’s like the end of Hanukah, except there’s one more day.
Today was my day to experiment with B roll. If you don’t know what b roll is, watch this video that BrantC showed me.
Today I dug into strategy, spirituality, living in the moment, and planning. In other words… is strategy spiritual [...]

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In a hotel lobby in Vancouver, B.C., Charlie Gilkey sat me down, stared me in the eye, and said, with that strange combination of compassion and icey-seriousness that was no doubt effective when he was a military commander, “Mark, you have to do video.”
You know that kind of gross habit some buggy people like to [...]

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One of our clients in the yearlong Opening the Moneyflow course has a compelling business doing great work. So great that a teenager spent money on her offer instead of a car.
People love her work. And, as she’s told us, because of what she’s learned in the course so far, she’s set to make two [...]

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There’s an interesting dynamic that comes up with folks new to, or doing something new, in their business. The dynamic: you want the new thing to work, because, well, you want your business to work. So you move into action.
When you are about to actually do something, the worry that it won’t work out and [...]

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I often have conversations with clients that go something like this:
Me: You have a good, clear definition of who you help and how you help them and a good offer. Time to start getting your message in front of prospective customers.
Client: Great! OK! So I’m going to start sending a monthly ezine.
Me: Good idea.
Client: [...]

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Several times recently I’ve heard or read someone make a comment like, “I really need to learn business, beyond just being good at what I do.” And each time I think, “Oy! Allah…” like any good Jufi (Jewish Sufi) does when presented with the incomprehensible mysteries of life.
In this case, the incomprehensible mystery I was [...]

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As Heart of Business has grown the last two, really three, years, I’ve been in an intensive learning curve transitioning from DIY solo practitioner to leader of a company. It’s been bumpy and incredibly gratifying.
A penny dropped recently, despite having heard it in different forms over and over again. The penny that dropped clarified that [...]

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