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, [...]

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I am willing to lose everything.
I embrace failure.
I am always willing to do tedious work.
I can handle watching my dreams fall apart.
Even if I am puking my guts out with the flu and my mother passed away last week, there is nothing that will keep me from being ready to work. [...]

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 [...]

On yoga, bipolarity, mood disorders and religious experience

I have been quiet on this list for some time.  As public a person as I am, and as much as I enjoy baring my soul all over the internet and to anyone who will listen, there are many aspects of my recent experience that are not useful to share – and some others [...]

Trellis debrief + a trip to Shivananda Yoga Ashram

Well, I have lived a couple of lifetimes since Trellis House was shut-down by the Norristown zoning department 5 weeks ago.  Quite a few miracles have occurred, and many angels have showed-up, but the scene is still a bit too “raw” for full-disclosure.  Maybe I will write the full story one day.  However there are [...]

Trellis House shut down by zoning board

The news is official: The Trellis residential program has been shut down by the Norristown zoning department effective this Friday.  While one may argue about the application of the judgment (we have 3 days to move all tenants and housemates out!), I feel it to be a righteous decision.  And also inevitable – I [...]

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 [...]

Starting a new business, and other reflections on death and rebirth

As the cooler fall weather arrives in the Northeast, I feel “enlivened” all over and a great happiness fills me.  It’s the same for me every year: the fall represents change and the beginning of a new cycle, new possibilities, death/rebirth.  This is even more so this year, which has been one of the [...]

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 [...]