Leave it to our awesome city to turn a water treatment center into a beautiful park for all of us to enjoy! Se7en Wetlands is Lakeland’s newest park located on the south side of town near Mulberry. The Grand Opening on April 14th was a wonderful celebration of the...
Spark Seasons
What Makes a Bookkeeper Great?
As bookkeepers, we love online accounting platforms like QuickBooks Online and Xero. These online softwares help to have quick access to your financial information in real time. They help you keep track of important documents, they offer tons of benefits such as...
I Forgot How to Take a Day Off
It was finally Friday and Grant had been telling me all week that (no matter what came up) it was totally cool if I took Friday off and had the day to myself. All week that thought had been in the back of my mind, but honestly I knew that there was less than a 30%...
Too Busy to Meditate
It’s hard to put a metric on feeling better, but it’s not hard to notice! If you think you are too busy to meditate you may be surprised how easy it is to find the 5 minutes. Meditation Tools, Breathing tools and training.
Overcome Anxiety – Deconditioning Anticipatory Anxiety
Overcome Anxiety. One of the benefits of meditation is that it rewires the brain. If we are anxious about the future we are imagining a negative outcome.
Thought Theft in the Knowledge Age
There is a ton of Thought Theft in the Knowledge Age. This is what it looks like. "There are times when you must rely on a person for something. If done repeatedly, however, it becomes taking advantage of that person, and is rude of a samurai." - Hagakure Service...
Etiquette of a Samurai and How Spark Samurai Treat Others
"The etiquette of a samurai is to calm himself and deal with people in a good manner. To treat a person harshly is the way of middle-class lackeys." - Hagakure I find it hilarious that even in the 1600's samurai writers are dogging the middle class. Aside from that, I...
Meditation Visualization is Often Overlooked
We have been taught to focus on emptying our mind. This is a paradox! Meditation Visualization is the goal! Here is how to get there.
Entrepreneurs Stop Doing Everything
(This great reminder came from Roger James Hamilton, a passionate entrepreneur trainer.) I see it all the time with my emerging entrepreneur clients; too busy to focus on what matters. Let's start with what matters: what your great at doing for clients! In short, it...