Adventures on the Blog
Stories, (Un)Marketing experiments, inspiring conversations and spiritual business
The Counter-Intuitive & Practical Gift of Mindfulness with Steve Ware
What does mindfulness have to do with your business? Steve Ware not only discovered the profound impact of mindfulness for himself personally, he also brought it into the notoriously conservative corporate environment of IBM. It’s proof that peace of mind and an...
What If You Can Make Money Without Trying By Being Yourself?
Today it occurred to me to ask: What if I was really myself showing up in this business and money game? I saw or felt how I'd been holding back, and how that just doesn't make any sense. Seems so obvious now.🤦 I think I'm going to continue the money game for at least...
The Sunny Side of Failure
I failed at creating my Impossible Project. This means that I didn’t do my exotic dragon dance performance within the 90 days. (You can read about my lessons learned and what’s happening next here.) But that isn’t the only “failure” I’ve experienced lately. A couple...
7 Lessons Learned From Attempting (and Failing) the Impossible
I failed at my Impossible Project. I did not complete my exotic dragon dance performance within the 90 days. My expectation wasn’t necessarily that I would succeed. After all, one of the criteria for an “impossible” project is that my chances of success seem to be...
The Expat Blues: What to Do When It’s Out of Your Control
What do you do when you just can’t find a way through? Last week I made the decision to go ALL IN with my Impossible Project (performing a exotic dragon dance) by picking a date and booking a location. I even announced it in this weekly email. But I didn’t see the...
How I Became the Laziest Marketer EVER
I wasn’t always a lazy marketer. Back in the beginning of my business journey (over 20 years ago!) I was in love with marketing. I geeked out on SEO, blogging, copywriting, content marketing, Google Ads…pretty much anything and everything marketing. You see, it didn’t...
5 Ingredients For Life-Changing Insights & Happy Accidents
Getting a new insight is a happy accident. We can’t make it happen. In fact, trying to have an insight is a nearly sure way to prevent it. Insight seems to come out of the blue when we’re doing nothing, when we don’t have much on our minds. Or when we’re exploring...
The Wisdom of Coffee For the Business of Transformation
My love is still sleeping when I slip out of bed to make him coffee. He prefers an Italian espresso made in the Bialetti moka pot that travels with him. The instructions are deceptively simple: Fill the bottom compartment up to the percolator with water, add grounds...
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