Entrepreneurship, success, and happiness: lessons learned, and an invitation

I am going to be traveling a lot in the next 6 weeks – to the Integral Theory Conference in Oakland, then a week with Mike Jay in Las Vegas (see below), and then Burning Man – and reporting on all these events – so I am leading off with a long piece on entrepreneurship, [...]

A fork in the road…

I am in part reluctant to write today, as I have so much to share, as my life has taken a definite turning point, a crystallization and falling-into-place and making-whole of all the experiences, triumphs and tragedies, joys and sorrows of my 3 years with Trellis, 6 years with Rebekah, and indeed the entire stream [...]

Mike Jay on performance management and personal effectiveness

Rebekah and the kids are away for most of the weekend, and so I am enjoying “that blissful solitude, that was so painful in my youth” [Einstein].  Truthfully, the events of the last 6 weeks (starting with the book I am writing and on to extremely exciting events at WordPress Academy, that I haven’t shared [...]

Words to live by (Brooke Castillo); Hal & Sidra Stone on Voice Dialogue

I wanted to share these two resources that have really rocked my world this week.  Please note that in general, going forward I will only be publishing my developmental ideas and similar resources to my new Integral Evolutionary blog (http://integralevolutionary.com).  This newsletter will return to its original purpose as “Marc’s life and travels” and will [...]

Carl Jung writing on loneliness, meaning, and purpose

The last chapter of Carl Jung’s autobiography Memories Dreams Reflections (which is one of my ten favorite books of all time) has always deeply affected me.  It is still, to my mind, the most powerful brief essay on the creative life that I have ever read.  It recently crossed my mind and so I am [...]

What question lies at the heart of your work?

I recently came across this fascinating introduction to a new book called Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, by (among others) Peter M. Senge and C. Otto Scharmer. The book presents a radical new model for leadership based on a new understanding of how organizations function in relationship to individuals’ own "deep [...]

More on the power of intention & other amazing events

Less than two weeks after I declared publicly, in this post, that I wanted essentially to become a "professional housemother" (owner/operator of a commune, purveyor of "a community of fun, love and transformation"), some amazing things have happened.  Specifically, 3 new people (yes, three) have approached us with the intention of doing a trial residence [...]

Sense of purpose, commitment and income generation

Here is yesterday’s quote from transformational coach Steve Chandler (one of my favorite teachers):

“If your mind is on the right path, it doesn’t matter how fast you go. If you’re on the right path, you’ll get there. Commitment keeps you on the path.”

And then:

“The hardest thing for people in western culture to unlearn is the [...]

Business ownership vs. regular employee / contract jobs?

Well I have been off coffee for 48 hours – man what a difference.  Long-term coffee toxicity is deadly – I pretty well slept or rested the whole day yesterday.  But today, I am on fire!  I am drinking green tea now, which seems to be working very well (3 1/2 hours on the job [...]

Polyphasic sleep, consciousness development and business development

As I am heading into 3 months of my on-and-off experiment with polyphasic sleep a short retrospective (and prospective or forward-spective seems in order.

First off, my situation is a bit unusual as the type of polyphasic sleep that I am doing, essentially biphasic (Winston Churchill’s schedule!), has the tremendous advantage of allowing one [...]