Uh oh. Another obligatory holiday post. Or is it?
As resident Shrink for Entrepreneurs, I’m here to serve up some piping hot insight on how to thrive during this chaotic time of year… while still finding time to do what’s important: Be with loved ones.
No matter your industry, the holidays mess it up. If you’re rocking a business-to-consumer business model, you probably have sales and pre-christmas insanity on your hands. If you run a business-to-business operation, all your sales leads are about to go as cold as ice. No one’s staff are going to have their head in the game and those christmas parties will take their toll on everyone.
I’m announcing something totally new and badass, that’ll give you the crash course you need to make this your best season yet. [click to continue…]
Creative people aren’t the most financially successful. There I said it.
The creative folks, the artists of the business world, are those who have the most trouble their bills.
I’ve worked with some very financially successful people, many of whom have attributed their massive (ridiculous) success to being “too stupid to give up” and “so unimaginative that hard work was the only option”. Those are actual client quotes.
Creative types over-think and over-analyze, get caught up in their craft and sometimes totally loathe the more commercial parts of their businesses. Until now, that is. [click to continue…]
The secret sauce to next level business success is productivity.
Let’s be honest. You started your business so that you didn’t have to sit in an office analyzing spreadsheets. You signed up for being a “highly effective” person. You told yourself that, as your own boss, you’d get more done in a few hours than most folks accomplish in a week. [click to continue…]
Today’s post is short and sweet. It breaks down an intense frustration felt by everyone, entrepreneurs especially, and provides three sure-fire solutions.
You know all those things you should be doing. That you’ve been told to do. Perhaps they’re things you’ve read about. Or, even worse, they’re things you simply tell yourself to do – things so blindly obvious you don’t need to be told. You simply know you should.
Today I’m serving up the psychological magic bullets (yes really) that turn should-do’s into done. [click to continue…]
It doesn’t matter if you’re looking in the blogosphere or the book store – Lifestyle advice is all around you. Build a business to support your dreams! Yay!
Lifestyle is the new black. Minimalism rules and pundits are trying to find the new definition of “enough”. It seems that any self respecting entrepreneur is supposed to build a micro-internet business to support their ambitions. Those ambitions usually revolve around tropical retirements and/or working from your PJs while homeschooling your kids.
Sounds great right?
Yet the psychology of these “lifestyle” entrepreneurs indicates they’re more unfulfilled, fatigued and miserable than ever before. [click to continue…]
It's been an amazing couple of months and we were just reflecting last night that we'd probably be getting ready to wind things up if not for the energy that you have injected into this business since January.