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You’re diligently working on your authentic business… but how do you know if it’s going in the right direction?
 
Or maybe you’ve hired a coach or consultant to help you, but how do you know they’re really helping?
 
I recommend these 10 metrics to gauge your business success. In this post, I’ll explain each one.
 

1. Content Consistency
2. Content Reach is Growing
3. Engagement on your content (likes, comments, shares)
4. Audience Research is giving you market …

In any area of life, if you want to sustain well-being, discipline is required. Specific actions, when done consistently, allow you to thrive. 

In physical health, the disciplines may include: eating nutritiously, exercising adequately, sleeping enough, and loving relationships.

When it comes to authentic business, there are 7 disciplines that I recommend. In my group coaching program, I work with participants to consistently track their actions in th…

A reader asked: 

“How can we maintain an authentic approach, yet integrate business practices such as target goals? I have a personal challenge to top my best efforts from the previous quarter, e.g. doing twice as many videos, selling more products, etc. Is it possible to have ambition, while being authentic?”

I love this question. I feel that it aims to integrate spirituality and worldliness, right and left brain, heaven and earth.

Here is my approach to synergize these polarities:

(Originally written in January 2018; updated July 2019.)
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An authentic business is financially viable and deeply meaningful to you. You make enough money. Yet, the activity itself feels worthwhile, regardless of the money.

I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to help many people in their authentic businesses, and also operating my own successfully for over a decade.

There seems to be 4 important layers of activity for every successful authentic business.

Written in Nov 2015, updated for 2019. (Thanks to Lauchlan MacKinnon for the reminder to bring this idea back.)

There is an interesting dichotomy on the journey of entrepreneurship: the Artist versus the Engineer. I have some measure of both within me. You do as well.

The Artist is concerned with staying true to her inner experience. Singing the song she feels like singing, even if nobody listens. Expressing her truth, no matter if others agree. The Artist brings the emotion, the humanity, the…