400 days of mindful business

Dedicating Daily Time To Do Nothing

Another word for this is meditation.

I haven’t yet found anything as important to dedicate daily time to.

Besides the enormity of medical benefits, the amount of creative ideas, deep self-understanding, and calm that…

Want To Be Recognized

We all have this place. Our 5 year old self wants to be recognized, seen, approved of, liked, and appreciated. So does your best friend, business partner, and dog.

I don’t use “5 year old self” to mean that wanting recognition is bad or childish, only because it’s…

Are You Making Others Manage Your Boundaries?

I’ve struggled with making clear boundaries, in personal life and in business.

My default is to say yes — especially as someone excited to build businesses and take on new projects.

Everyone Gets Their Hair Cut

It’s hard enough running a hair salon business when you know that everyone gets their hair cut.

But when you run a business based on something not everyone gets or needs, it’s time to get clear about what needs really are.

The Best You Know How

We don’t know what we don’t know.

So we can only and do only give the best we know how in any situation.

Then, outside of each situation we have dozens of ways to learn from it and change things in future situations.

Where You Make Your Money And Where You Don’t

You need to make money. That’s obvious. Without it you wouldn’t have a business.

However, if all of your effort is tunnel-visioning toward how to make money, and everything you and your business do is for profit, then the…

You Might Be Surprised

You might be surprised to meet a new lifelong friend at the local Toastmasters club, when you went in looking to get better at public speaking.

You might be surprised to find that you’re really good at design, understanding technology, noticing fashion trends…

The Bravery To Step Beyond Sides

While both sides predictably blame one another, fight one another, and become obsessed with pushing their own agenda — when is it that someone will be brave enough to step beyond their own desires and goals to meet the other?

Take To The Streets, Our Dance Floor

While both sides predictably blame one another, fight one another, and become obsessed with pushing their own agenda — when is it that someone will be brave enough to step beyond their own desires and goals to meet the other?