Hi everyone, I’m excited to present a new design on the site! While I did redesign it recently, and I was pretty happy with it…I’ve recently gotten a new sense of what I want Tao of Prosperity to be and a new look was part of it. The highlights: The new design uses a flower [...]

Hi everyone, I'm excited to present a new design on the site! While I did redesign it recently, and I was pretty happy with it...I've recently gotten a new sense of what I want Tao of Prosperity to be and a new look was part of it. The highlights: The new design...

When something feels out of your control, it usually is. The problem is not the thing that’s out of your control. The problem is that you are trying to hold on to it and control it, when you really can’t. Suffering arises from trying to control the uncontrollable. Imagine trying to control a wild horse. Trying

When something feels out of your control, it usually is. The problem is not the thing that's out of your control. The problem is that you are trying to hold on to it and control it, when you really can't. Suffering arises from trying to control the uncontrollable. Imagine...

Do you feel guilty because you don’t eat organic veggies? Or have a regular exercise routine? Or write every day? Or some other ideal that you carry around that you have never quite gotten yourself to do? On the outside, these would be positive changes. They would make you feel better, look better…be better? Wel

Do you feel guilty because you don't eat organic veggies? Or have a regular exercise routine? Or write every day? Or some other ideal that you carry around that you have never quite gotten yourself to do? On the outside, these would be positive changes. They would make...

There are many reasons why less stuff is better. But there are also lots of reasons why we have our stuff. And those reasons don’t make us bad people. I’ve always wanted to have less stuff, but I’ve always struggled to achieve this ideal. After having the “you should have less stuff” argument

There are many reasons why less stuff is better. But there are also lots of reasons why we have our stuff. And those reasons don't make us bad people. I've always wanted to have less stuff, but I've always struggled to achieve this ideal. After having the "you should...

Sometimes I have a voice in my head that goes, “What is the point? Why bother?” when it comes to self-promotion, and sometimes it even grows to engulf doing anything creative. I met with my MasterMind group yesterday and we worked on this voice in regards to self-promotion. It says: “What’s the point

Sometimes I have a voice in my head that goes, "What is the point? Why bother?" when it comes to self-promotion, and sometimes it even grows to engulf doing anything creative. I met with my MasterMind group yesterday and we worked on this voice in regards to self-promotion....

This is Herman. I drew him at my last Mastermind group meeting where I was asking for help yet again with my Eternal Quandary which one of the gals put succinctly as: I want to be famous but I don’t want to be famous. (And by famous, I mean internet famous — known amongst biz [...]

This is Herman. I drew him at my last Mastermind group meeting where I was asking for help yet again with my Eternal Quandary which one of the gals put succinctly as: I want to be famous but I don't want to be famous. (And by famous, I mean internet famous — known...

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Biznik, blogs, comments, status updates, “friend”ing, fan pages…aaah! Where does it end? Do you find yourself avoiding social media, or find it overwhelming? You’re so not alone. I’ve talked to many people, of all ages, highly technical and not, and it’s a common issue. W

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Biznik, blogs, comments, status updates, “friend”ing, fan pages…aaah! Where does it end? Do you find yourself avoiding social media, or find it overwhelming? You’re so not alone. I’ve talked to many people, of all ages, highly technical and not, and it’s a common issue. W

Our unconscious is probably involved when: Everything looks fine on the surface but something is still bothering you. You just can’t make a decision. You freeze and stop moving forward for no apparent reason. You’ve tried and tried to make something happen and it just doesn’t. Things aren’t so bad, b

Our unconscious is probably involved when: Everything looks fine on the surface but something is still bothering you. You just can’t make a decision. You freeze and stop moving forward for no apparent reason. You’ve tried and tried to make something happen and it just doesn’t. Things aren’t so bad,

Is your true work something that hasn’t exactly been done before? Do you want to learn skills in helping people, but don’t know which model to use – teaching, coaching, therapist, etc? Maybe none of them feel quite right? Do traditional trainings feel boring, too structured, or not adequate to prepare you

Is your true work something that hasn’t exactly been done before? Do you want to learn skills in helping people, but don’t know which model to use – teaching, coaching, therapist, etc? Maybe none of them feel quite right? Do traditional trainings feel boring, too structured, or not adequate to prepare you

Right relationship is about balance, health, and sustainability. It’s also about service–how we help the world with the power we have. I’m talking about our personal relationship to money–not how the world economies should treat money, but how we personally can come into alignment with the spiritual

Right relationship is about balance, health, and sustainability. It’s also about service–how we help the world with the power we have. I’m talking about our personal relationship to money–not how the world economies should treat money, but how we personally can come into alignment with the spiritual

Before I talk about “selling out”, I want to talk about the two sides of creativity, process and product. Process: the internal work of uncovering something personally meaningful through creative output. Product: a finished, cohesive work that other people can access and find value in. Process and product are tw

Process:  the internal work of uncovering something personally meaningful through creative output. Product: a finished, cohesive work that other people can access and find value in. Process and product are two sides of the same coin, and yet if you focus just on one or the other you lose something. If you focus just on pro

Hello my peeps, I’m teaching my first ever class on business and the spiritual goodies that make it fun. It’s called Holistic Business Basics, and I’m co-teaching it here in Portland with my friend Sarah Lambert. You can read all about it on our newly launched site (drumroll…), the Holistic Business

The biggest struggles I and many of my clients have had are around setting and navigating boundaries in business. The client that asks for extras–and you feel queasy inside as you say “Ok…I guess that wouldn’t be that big of a deal”. The person who wants to trade with you [...]

Sometimes I find I just can’t go full speed with the socializing, online or otherwise. Part of why I created my own business was so I could spend long stretches of time doing my own thing. Alone. No contact with people, not even email contact. Not even Twitter. Perhaps especially not Twitter. I really prefer a few [..