The Thanksgiving Test: Could Your Business Run Without You for a Week?
Take Thanksgiving week off and watch what happens. Five questions that show whether your business can run without you, and what to fix in the first quarter.
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The ‘Work-Life Blend’ Method: Why Work-Life Balance is a Lie & How to Fix It
January always feels like a fresh start, a time when we set big goals—both for our businesses and our personal lives. For years, I chased the perfect work-life balance—trying to divide my time between work and family equally. But I always felt like I was failing at both. That’s when I realized: Balance isn’t the…
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Tips to Optimize How You Spend Your Time
Struggling to achieve work life “balance?” Here’s why I see that concept as flawed, and how you can get back control of that precious resource.
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Prioritization Isn’t Easy – It’s a Process
Here’s how you can prioritize your time so you’re delivering your best self to your business, and your social circle, without sacrificing.
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Take Back Control of Your Calendar With White Space
Entrepreneurs need time to think and create. But rarely, if ever, does “time to think” make the list of things that go on your calendar. Take control with this method.
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Amp Up The Quality Time With Family This Summer
If you’re like most people, it’s hard to feel good about the time you’re spending with your kids and your spouse when tensions are high and space is limited right now. You try to work from home, but your kids are fighting and the dog is barking in the background. You had to cancel your long-awaited…
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Try To Be OK – But It’s OK If You’re Not
I’ve been an entrepreneur for decades, and there’s one truth I can confidently declare: managing a business and life is hard. And frankly, entrepreneurs are sometimes the worst at recognizing their emotional issues and asking for help. We tend to overwork and overthink, chalking all of it up to our relentless work ethic and failing to…
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Prioritizing the Blurred Lines of Our Daily Lives
Balancing family and work has always been hard, but COVID-19 has made it seem next to impossible. If you’re a working parent like I am, the lines between work and home are suddenly so blurred we can’t even see which is which anymore. Even if you’re single, or married without kids, your life is abruptly…
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7 Red Flags You Need to be More Selfish With Your Time
When you own a business, it’s a given that you’re going all-in. I get it. I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 20 years, and crossing over the line from working hard to working too much is all too easy to do. But, it’s not only the business that needs our attention. It’s also our families,…
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Trust: The Unexpected Ingredient for Business Success
If you’re an entrepreneur, odds are high you want to know how to help your company grow. I’ve built several businesses, so I have hard-earned perspectives on the subject. But I don’t want to tell you about cash flow or customer acquisition or any of the other business-y crap we hear about all the time….
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Creating a Better Work-Life Balance for Working Parents
The life of a working parent is often absolute chaos. Wake up, make breakfast, pack lunches, get the kids to school, head to work, grind out meetings, take the kids to gymnastics or soccer practice, make dinner, pick them up, help with homework, clean up, bedtime routine / fight, collapse and binge watch Game of…
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Organizing Your Personal Life to Run Like Your Professional Life
Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and felt like your home life isn’t as relaxing as it should be? Whether it’s chores piling up, work finding a way to consume your weekends, or your kids needing your support at their all-day cross country race on Saturday. The weekends never quite seem to…
