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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Wow, I did it! Four days in a row, one video each day. I’m amazed. (If you’re wondering what this is about, check Day One.)
Today I had a hankering to work the whiteboard in, and had to figure out how to light it without creating a monstrous glare. I did it moderately well, although it’s [...]

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Third day is happening just under the wire! A late night last night because the kiddoos didn’t really want to sleep so much, and so a late morning, and things got crammed… So I filmed in the afternoon instead of the morning, and even as I write this iMovie is processing and uploading.
Then, the video [...]

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We all know how many struggles each of us face. Sometimes things are beyond hard, challenging, or dispiriting. I find that in situations like that an insight into the nature of the universe and how things work can help me shift my perspective and gain a toehold to move forward.
To honor any struggle you may [...]

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As I write this I’m on day eight of our ten-day family trip, and I’m eating a cookie while the rest of my family naps in the hotel room. In between visiting my family in Maryland, and then visiting our adopted twin sons’ birth family in Ohio, we all spent a lovely short visit in [...]

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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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