I was raised in the religion called “Self-Employment.”
As a child, I remember many a summer evening, lounging on the floor of my uncle Walter’s house in Bedford, Indiana, listening to my dad and Walter and Uncle Pryce talk business.
No. Not talk, pontificate. Extol. Preach.

The theme was always the same: be in business for yourself. [...]

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Wowza – retreats are needed – that’s what I got from your responses to my Big Virtual Retreat Contest.
It is a holy need.
Sometimes in a “holy crap! I need a break” or in a “I’m full of holes, I’m ready for mending” or in a celebration of wholeness kind of way. All holy.
Here are a [...]

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I’ve been reading Linchpin, Seth Godin’s new book, (pubs. January 26th) and you can see by my liberal use of little plastic flags, I’m finding a lot to mull over.
I even woke up this morning with one of the little plastic buggers in my hair.
What I’m loving about Seth’s book he has taken the ideas [...]

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You know retreats rule.
(At least, I hope you do. If not, trust me on this one.)
They put the sparkle back in the diamonds on the souls of your shoes (sorry, been listening to a lot of Paul Simon lately).
They give you a path back to the spring that burbles at the heart of your soul [...]

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