Our Miserable Little Launch and You
It’s *really* easy for someone to look successful from the outside. Which is why I like to be honest about what’s happening for us, so you get the raw truth of what it’s like to be in business. On one hand Heart of Business is doing amazingly well. We’ve been profitable and developing for 15 […]
Yom Kippur
In the Jewish calendar, today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Or, as friends of mine like to say, the day of At-One-Ment. It is arguably the holiest day in the Jewish year, a day of fasting, or recognizing mistakes we’ve made, and of opening our hearts to the Divine. Although in popular culture […]
My cat’s answer to how to keep from making mistakes
Updated 4/21/22 At 4 a.m. our cat, Rafi, comes mewing and yowling into our room, waking up both Holly and me. I yell and hiss at him, and then realize I’m not getting back to sleep. Holly tells me, “Don’t you let him out!” It’s my fault, because I have let him out when I […]
Birthday squared!
Our boys, Sam and David, turn 7 years old today. Happy birthday, gentlemen! In honor of their birthday, I’m not working today, but instead spending the day with family. I’m so grateful I can do this. I will share two things: 1) Look for a special announcement tomorrow. I know we just finished promoting Heart-Centered […]
How to (not) extract learnings from misfortunes
This week is full of Hanukkah parties, and I’m looking forward to my first attempt at home-made donuts, which, if you didn’t know, can be included with potato latkes as a traditional Hanukah food. Solstice, Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and probably others, I’m sure. The end of the year’s holidays are predictably Northern-hemisphere-centric, focused on this […]
Is Your Business Problem Technical or Spiritual?
I recently received a call from someone I respect highly who was asking about some challenges they were facing in their business. They came to me because they wondered if there was a “lack” mentality operating and keeping them from succeeding. After asking a few questions, and listening to the answers, I pointed out some […]
The Car Wreck of Being Authentic
I applaud the move towards openness, honesty, integrity. In the conceal/reveal cycle, as my friend Eric calls it, we’ve been moving steadily into an age of “revelation” if you’ll permit me the word. When is revealing too much, though? There seems to be a delicate balance wherein you want to know the person on the […]
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 […]
Why You Repeat Some Business Mistakes
Why do you make certain mistakes over and over again? No matter how hard you try to fix or control the situation, they seem beyond your control. For instance, I was working with a client who has a number of staff working under him that he wanted to delegate to more efficiently. Despite his efforts, […]
Heart of Money Pre-release Mistake! Oy!
We made a big mistake yesterday. Actually, we made a second mistake recently, but one at a time. The $155 Mistake Kate and I were putting the finishing touches on the Heart of Money Homestudy promotion by doing the Right Price exercise. That’s where we use our hearts to land on what I call the […]