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The Return of the Seeker
READ ARTICLE →: The Return of the SeekerThis is the final part of a short series introducing three archetypes that underpin our work as entrepreneurs, freelancers and professionals—The Artist, the Merchant and the Seeker. (They are also the subject of my book, coming out in June.) In part one I talked about the Artist, and how so many of us have our…
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Confessing To My Friendship With Jesus
Read Article →: Confessing To My Friendship With JesusI was at dinner a few nights ago with a friend. We’d just spent a day with the spiritual teacher Adyashanti. We’d both been deeply moved by the experience, and by him. As we talked about life, love and religion, I happened to mention that I’d felt increasingly drawn to Christianity over the last couple…
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5 Ways To Grow Your Tribe (without resorting to clever tactics)
Read Article →: 5 Ways To Grow Your Tribe (without resorting to clever tactics)Marketing isn’t about advertising anymore. You can’t build a product and then hope to ‘find an audience’ for it. Mad Men is truly over. The new marketing is being who you are, attracting your natural tribe, and then creating products that deeply serve them. As Seth Godin says, “You don’t find customers for your products,…
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Anxiety: The Energy Of Growth
Read Article →: Anxiety: The Energy Of GrowthEntrepreneurship and anxiety go hand in hand. You can’t separate them. Though I tried. I spent the majority of my early adult life trying to run from anxiety. I was scared about feeling scared. My first job was putting cheese on shelves in a big supermarket. It felt perfect at the time, because it was…
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Waging War with Your Resistance
Read Article →: Waging War with Your Resistance“I can’t write today, I’m not feeling inspired.” “There’s no way I can launch this new thing without the logo being finished.” “One day, I’ll be ready to create that thing I’ve been dreaming about. One day.” Resistance. The albatross around the neck of every creative entrepreneur. The bane of every artist. The greatest foe…
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Money Is Not What You Think It Is
Read Article →: Money Is Not What You Think It IsMoney is not what you think it is. It’s not what I thought it was. It used to be something that was hard to find, harder to keep, and very hard to talk about. It was unspiritual, a sign of selling out, or worse. Money is like a lover, and I must confess; she and…
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The Power Of True Commitment
Read Article →: The Power Of True Commitment“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back…the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.” ― William H. Murray Until late last year, commitment was a dirty word for me. It was something that constrained my natural artistic flair, boxed me in and tainted my organic inspiration. It was…
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6 Different Kinds Of Feeling
Read Article →: 6 Different Kinds Of FeelingHuman beings feel. And these days we’re feeling a lot. There’s a lot to feel. We’re desiring connection with one another. We’re feeling scared at the prospect of actually doing what our inner-guidance asks of us. We’re feeling hurt when people don’t like what we create. We’re feeling increasingly free, as we discover that our…
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A Product Made From Consciousness
Read Article →: A Product Made From ConsciousnessThere is a new kind of product on the market. The demand is immense. The competition non-existent. It is not a product that can be held in your hands. It is not manufactured in factory, or assembled from components. It is not a product that gives you the answer, or instructs you how to. It…
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Have You Boasted Recently?
Read Article →: Have You Boasted Recently?I started a group coaching program last week. During the session our couch asked us a question. “What are you extraordinary at? World class?” We were invited to share our answer with everyone. I’m English. We don’t like to talk about such things. It’s not polite. But I jumped in. And found myself saying that…
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The Most Powerful Question I Know
Read Article →: The Most Powerful Question I KnowI started asking myself this question just over a year ago. Last autumn I went through one of the toughest periods of my life. After returning from 7 months of traveling in June of 2013, things were on the up. I was full of audacious ideas, a new business partnership, renewed juju. And then it…
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Only This. Only Love.
Read Article →: Only This. Only Love.It is I who am your greatest longing. I long for you to open yourself and receive all that is. For when you do so my dear, you will realize that there is only This. Only Love. Can you feel me when you are moved? Can you feel that there is no other way but…
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Don’t Hide Behind Your Marketing
Read Article →: Don’t Hide Behind Your MarketingWe can think of marketing as having two different ways. The first way of marketing is presenting ourselves, skillfully, strategically, deliberately. It’s writing our persuasive website copy, designing a logo that gives just the right feel to the brand, it’s concocting our taglines that inspire and inform people. This is the common form of marketing.…