About two weeks ago, my wife Holly and I planned our first date, with friends watching our boys, since November 11, 2008- which is when our aforementioned adopted twin sons were born. If you’re a parent, especially a parent of twins, or know someone, you know why five months had gone by without a date.
Of [...]

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Despite ten-plus years of exposure to “Law” of Attraction teachings, I’ve never felt comfortable with them.
Plus, over the years lots folks have come to us frustrated, burnt out, used up, and blaming themselves after trying to make the “Law” of Attraction work for their businesses. Something wasn’t quite right, and yet I couldn’t put my [...]

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Write. Write. Write. I do it all day long sometimes. A lot of the time actually, and my work has nothing directly to do with writing.
As a trained writer and editor, I think of writing as a craft or business in itself. Yet, I actually write as much or more helping run Heart of Business [...]

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I’ve been home for less than one week, after being on a two-month adoption journey, and I’m struck down by the flu. DESPITE getting the flu shot that the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit aggressively recommended. Headache, weak, low-grade fever.
You know, sick.
And, so I’ve been going through handkerchiefs, and trying to rest so that I can [...]

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Strange spiritual contest with impractical poetry prize. Contest rules below.
As I feed my twins and they’ve settled down this early morning, and I can’t help also thinking about my “other child”– Heart of Business. The same way my babies cry, the business cries, and my clients cry. And I cry. We’re all crying because we’re [...]

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Sonia Simone, someone I like and respect tremendously, wrote a fair and cautionary post “Dumb Things Small Businesses Do #7: Follow the Herd.”
So before I expand the conversation, let me say this up front: “Sonia! I loved your post. Folks- listen to her, the herd isn’t necessarily safe.”
But, that ain’t the whole story (nor did [...]

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It happened again. Twice. I heard clients say, “Well, I just have to trust.” or “I just have to be confident.” I myself have done it a thousand times.
Most business books I’ve read say the same thing: You have to be passionate! You have to let them know what you are promising. You have to [...]

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