[Video] The Power of Feedback + Systems
This week, our Director of Education and Community Manager Steve Mattus digs into his speciality – the deep dive of listening deeply to the heart, and then creating systems to support following through with what your heart tells you. He uses a personal and vulnerable example of a system he recently set up. I want […]
How to keep clients from taking over your calendar and your life
To continue the theme from last week on healthy working schedules, I want to talk about client schedules. This week, not only did I map out my client schedule January-June, 2016, but there was a question from one of our Community members about whether it was selfish or unrealistic to regularly take one or two weeks off at […]
The 3 Types of Business Work
I realized awhile ago that communication channels are becoming overwhelming. One person emails me, another texts. Then there are Facebook private messages, plus Twitter. More: hundreds of requested connections on LinkedIn that I haven’t answered because I don’t use LinkedIn (yet) even though I have an account. (By the way- the “yet” up above is […]
Why I’m Not An Early Adopter
I admit it–I don’t have an iPad. My MacBook is the old style, white, not aluminum uni-body design. I didn’t have a smart phone until the iPhone 3GS was out. And then only because the rest of my team forced us to get them. I’m a big believer in having the right tools for the […]
Sticky Notes Versus the To-Do List Tsunami
Earlier this year I replaced our kitchen sink. At one point I was faced with having to tighten down the basin drain, which comes in two parts: the metal ring on top of the drain hole, and the bottom part which screws into the top part, allowing water to drain down the pipe, instead of […]
Interview with Larry Willeman- CFO-for-Hire
One of my earliest marketing mentors Robert Middleton recently put me in touch with a fellow Portlander, Larry Willeman. We met for tea and I had a fascinating time hearing about what he does. Larry is a remarkable person (as is Robert, I’ll be interviewing him soonish.) Through his consulting firm, Willeman Strategyas Partners, he […]
Video Challenge Day Eight
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 […]
Learning to Walk By Making Bad Video
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 […]
Why Speed Isn’t Good For You or Your Business
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 […]
Making a Living, Making Peace with 70 Percent
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 […]