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Hope Doing More Will Make Your Business More Successful? Let’s Talk About That
What are you doing to grow your business this year? Wait. Let me guess: You're doing more. Doing more is rarely the answer to the question, "How do I grow my business?" But... it seems like it should be the answer. So it's the first tactic we consider....
Your Goals Do Not Define You
As you make your New Year’s resolutions, intentions, commitments, vision boards, or goals, a gentle reminder: Your goals do not define you or your worth. The other day, I was thinking about my "origin story." It's the story of why I started a business in the first...
Your Business Is Not A Problem To Be Fixed
Messages urging you to fix yourself or fix your business are all around. It's all part of the annual ritual of improvement that is the New Year. Most of these messages revolve around invented or exaggerated “problems” that can be easily solved if only you’d buy this...
Reset Your Reactivity In 2021
2020 has been a year of reacting. We’ve reacted to the shock to our economies. We’ve reacted to injustice. We’ve reacted to the fear of getting sick (or spreading sickness to others). We’ve reacted to lost contracts and unexpected surges in demand. We’ve reacted to...
What Every Small Business Owner Ought To Know About Their Job
The way you think about your "job" can hold you back as a small business owner. But you probably won't notice the problem until you're feeling frustrated that your business keeps bumping up against a ceiling. Your ceiling might be how much you work, the number of...
The Secret To Sticking To Your Plan (Don’t)
Photo by Grovemade on Unsplash One of the top questions I get every year is: How do I make a plan I can stick to? Everyone wants to know a magical formula for choosing goals and making plans that they can glue themselves to for a month, a quarter, or a year. After...
How To Create A Plan To Grow Your Small Business in 2022
So you want to grow your small business in 2022? Awesome! But... how exactly do you do that? In the past, I would have tackled this from a purely marketing standpoint. I would have written about developing new relationships, growing your audience, and creating more...
30 Questions For Reviewing An Unusual Year
We have just about made it to the final month of 2020. Which is the perfect time to look back on what you've created, what didn't work out, and what you learned. And, it's understandable if maybe that annual ritual is something you're thinking about skipping...
Feeling The Small Business Burnout? Try Varying Your Intensity
Raise your hand if you're feeling burnt out 👋 Lots of people are. Up or down, good or bad, growth or not—plenty of people are hitting a wall right now. On top of all of the unexpected stressors that we've experienced this year, many of us have just not gotten to do...