December is the time of year when many small service businesses suffer from an alarming drop in usual business. Regular customers take vacations and get busy with the family obligations that run from the end of November all the way through the Holidays and into the New Year. Depending upon the type of business you manage, this drop in business can be a real shocker if you haven't planned for it and can influence your decision-making as you close out your fiscal business year.

If we found out that it is our own judgment that creates inner turmoil and stress, is it possible that we could, paradoxically, use judgment to facilitate inner stillness? Below we will explore how we can intentionally elevate the level of consciousness that our judgments come from and learn how to use our judgments to construct an architecture that is supportive of an inner environment of stillness.

What would it mean to you if you learned how to become an open vessel for discovering new possibilities and experiences for an enriched life?  At times when I find myself feeling like a closed vessel, it seems to me that the gifts that life offers to me just aren’t being received.  One way that I catch myself closing off to the possibilities and discoveries that life has to offer is by standing in the realm of “I know”.  Because one of life’s paradoxes is that in order to discover anything, we must first acknowledge that there are unknowns, I find that standing in the realm of “I don’t know” opens me up to receive what life is offering. I invite you to explore just what it means to "stand in the realm of I don't know" with me in this article.

It is not unusual when I first meet with a client interested in my services to express their desire to “grow” their business, but they just don’t quite know how they should go about doing that. What they are really thinking is, “How do I market my business and bring customers to me who will buy from me?” I’ve noticed that when people are having trouble converting prospects into clients, they are usually doing one thing wrong—they are selling when they should actually be marketing. This is a very important distinction, worthy of exploring.

OK, you’re in business for yourself, but you are not sure if you have this monster mastered. The business seems to have a life of its own, and lately it seems to be running you. Really, all you wanted to do is what you love! Remember, you had a dream - a dream of helping other people get healthy, fit and happy and share your own passion. Now you find yourself burdened with little time for yourself or your loved ones, a financial overhead and a tighter market. This isn’t what you planned for. Oops, I guess there is more to business planning than you thought? What do you need to do? Where do you start? This article offers insight into how to answer these questions.

Policies and procedures are documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. Policies and procedures can be the lifeblood of your business organization and are important business management tools. These documents can save you hundreds of dollars on costs related to administering your business, not to mention the legal aspect of having the correct policies and procedures in place. In my experience, most small business owners fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants and don’t have written policies or procedures. In this article I show just how valuable policies and procedures can be, and offer a quick, handy guide to developing them for your own business.

After you finish Lesson 1, you begin to realize how powerful the PPS Program is.  Once you can get past telling yourself that your drawings are ridiculous, you actually start enjoying the process. However, once we arrive at Lesson 2, the bets seem to be off.  Too much intimacy is required and rather than pulling up our shirt sleeves and getting to work, we tend to find excuses for why we are unable to find time to complete it.  In my opinion, this is a great place to be. Let me tell you why.

Why do certain parts of our lives seem to be out of our control?  For some of us perhaps a better question is, “Why does my entire life seem to be out of my control?”  Or for those of us who think we are in control, we might ponder the question, “Why do I control my life in the manner that I do?”  In short, most of us feel, at times, a lack of control about life or we wonder why we control it the way that we do.  The sense of control we have or don’t have about our life has a direct impact on our peace of mind.  In this short article I want to explore our sense of control using two key historical figures - Hitler and Gandi.

As a society, Americans invest most of their time working from without (the physical body) rather than working from within (mental, emotional and spiritual). One of the things we forget to realize is that our physical body is a 3 D representation of our mental, emotional and spiritual bodies, and the root of most internal dysfunction is the inability to identify our personal stressors.  The body is a master at creating internal imbalance when these stressors are multiplied day in and day out.  One very common, yet disruptive and often undiagnosed source of imbalances is fungal infections. In this article, we will tackle how you get a fungal infection, why you get it, how you might benefit from it and how to eradicate it.

Out of all the people you will ever know, is there anyone who you’ll spend more time with and live in closer proximity to than your self?  What happens if we mindlessly ignore self?  How would it feel to mindfully nurture self?  For some of us, we tend to neglect the person who we are closest to – namely the person wearing our own skin.  Like any relationship, whether with another person, a job, a business, or a hobby, the relationship with self is not likely to thrive without deliberate intent to create harmony and balance. It isn’t until we’ve invested in the discovery process that we can transition into a deepening and enriching of our relationship with self. In this article I would like to offer some insights to serve as reflective points for discovery about the relationship you have with your own self.