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, [...]

Burning Man 2010?

I will be attending Burning Man 2010 this year with a group of friends from Shalom Mountain.  We are staying at a wonderful camp, Sacred Spaces Village (http://www.sacredspacesvillage.org/), who just informed me they have some spaces left. 

Burning Man (http://www.burningman.com/) is a weeklong festival that takes in the desert near Reno, NV, every year [...]

Are you a natural entrepreneur? Take the entrepreneur test

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 [...]

My rise to fame and fortune in 180 days

When I haven’t checked-in for such an eternity, it’s hard to know where to begin. 

I will start with practical things.  The WordPress webinar business has taken off.  I am generating as much service business as I can handle right now just from my eBook and web traffic. The webinar has gone through two full [...]

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 [...]