Uplevel Your Business… and Your Whole Life
Years ago, I threw away about $250,000. Give or take. This was back in my songwriter days. When I wasn’t on tour, I hosted these cool little retreats and workshops throughout the year because people kept asking me how to live their dreams and build their businesses. So, I’d do the retreat. I’d teach […]
The Sensitive Business Owner’s Guide to Becoming Resilient
I was getting pounded by rapid-fire questions. The asker was my doctor, filling in blanks on his computer with each answer I gave. His questions were designed to reveal my attitude toward adversity, my ability to come back after a set-back, and my willingness to take creative risks in life. In other words, he was […]
How We Make Our Own Brand of Confusion
Last week, my heart broke. So did a valuable piece of raku pottery. Moon Pie jumped up onto the sideboard, but — being a runt-of-the-litter kitty — couldn’t quite make it. In a desperate moment, she reached her arms out to anything that might give her leverage. In this case, it was the raku vase […]
How to Get Back on Track After the Laziness of Summer
Here’s what a client said last week. (See if it sounds familiar.) “Man, I was really on a roll with this project before the summer. But then the kids were home all summer, and we had vacation, and then I had to get Brian off to school and I’m just, I don’t know, not motivated […]
How My Business Gets Up to 50% Client Renewals
It was a dramatic scene. There were lawyers involved. Yes, I cried. And yes, I was pissed. But please read through to the happy ending – because it could exponentially increase your business revenue. A number of years ago, a trusted person on my team became angry and vengeful. It happened seemingly overnight. She went […]
