


Work Cycles + The Work Gym = Possibly The Best Way Ever to Get Your Work Done
What is your Most Important Work (MIW)? Do you know? What’s the one thing you need to be working on every day that is going to get your projects to where they need to be? An easy way to describe MIW is that, in Eisenhower’s Quadrant, this is often the “Important, Not...

Effective Work and A System for Getting it Done
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.” ― Thomas Merton What does it take to...

Systems 101 for Service (or Productized Service) Businesses
Are you ready to grow your business? Are you ready to focus on and leverage your Zone of Genius? If you said yes to any of those, or if you’re hanging out in overwhelm city, there aren’t enough hours in the day and you always feel like you’re scrambling, you need...

Q2 Planning Workshop
There’s a lot of ra-ra around planning at the beginning of the year - building yearly plans and setting yourself up to reach goals for the new year. Hey, we’re in March now. Are you still committed to creating a planning process for yourself and following...

5 Amazing Techniques Found from Navy SWCC to Easily Do More In Life
Learn how a team member of Navy SWCC made it through some of the military’s most rigorous and challenging training. It is wisdom, skills, and tactics that you can use no matter where you are in life. You will find it relevant. It will help you reach your goals.

Creatively Use & Respond to Change
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." ― Viktor E. Frankl Business Through the Lens of Permaculture: Principle 12 - Creatively Use and Respond to Change [This is the final installment in a 12-week series exploring...

All the movement is in the edges
"Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and...

Diversity Creates Strength & Resiliency
“With diversity comes prolific regenerative action.” - Madeline Dunn Business Through the Lens of Permaculture: Principle 10 – Use and Value Diversity [This is the tenth installment in a 12-week series exploring Business Through the Lens of Permaculture. Using the...

Using Small and Slow Solutions
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." - Gandhi Business Through the Lens of Permaculture: Principle 9 – Using Small and Slow Solutions [This is the ninth installment in a 12-week series exploring Business Through the Lens of Permaculture. Using the principles...

Integrate Elements of Your Business, Not Segregate Them
The word 'integrate' comes from Latin and it means "make whole". Business Through the Lens of Permaculture: Principle 8 – Integrate Rather Than Segregate [This is the eighth installment in a 12-week series exploring Business Through the Lens of Permaculture. Using the...