As a business owner you hear it all the time, “You can do this, just put your head down and get the work done.”
So, you work hard and stay as present as possible, yet you take a misstep and get clobbered with the unexpected.
Your website goes down, mistakes with bookkeeping happen, or time lines that [...]

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Dublin, Ohio. Our boys are sleeping peacefully on the hotel room bed after two days of stress. The day before we spent getting ready to leave, which included buying about a million pounds of dry ice to ship with gallons of frozen, home-made baby formula (the goat milk version). Then, all day yesterday flying with [...]

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Three people died after participating in a sweat lodge at a nine thousand dollar “spiritual warrior” retreat led by James Arthur Ray, a self-appointed motivational speaker, who appeared in the law of attraction movie, “The Secret.” The allegations are that a culture of pressure from the leader to “break through limitations” coupled with a poorly [...]

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Someone wrote in months ago asking me about this topic, and then, very patiently just wrote in again reminding me that I never really answered.
Her question:
I wrote you a couple of months ago asking for your thoughts on how to keep a business thriving while simultaneously being a caregiver. (My husband has mid-stage Alzheimer’s Disease.)
The [...]

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You fall in love with something that has changed your life. That’s totally normal, and definitely worth celebrating. And guess what? You are uniquely suited to get it out to others. So you take the training, cross your fingers, and pump out a website.
Ta-da! You’re in business!
And you write articles, and blog, and network all [...]

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You may be familiar with the principle of tithing–giving a certain percentage of your earnings to those in need. You may have also heard that what you give will come back to you twice-over, three-times over, seven-fold, or ten-fold. Different traditions have different formulas.
Some people swear by it. Others just end up swearing as their [...]

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Note: This is a personal request, and not necessarily about Heart of Business. And yet, at the same time, our businesses are deeply woven into the communities from which they are born. Heart of Business rests deeply into the friends, family and community that surround my wife and I. I wanted to use the Heart [...]

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