Category: manage your business

  • You Can Have It All {a lesson in patience and boundaries}

    You Can Have It All {a lesson in patience and boundaries}

    There I was – sitting cross-legged, sipping organic fair-trade coffee complete with soy creamer, typing away on my MacBook Pro while the installers toiled away with our new flooring. I was even in a hoodie! It couldn’t have been more of an entrepreneurial stereotype if I tried. Well, maybe it could have if the setting…

  • How to Crush The Day – Here’s My Secret

    How to Crush The Day – Here’s My Secret

    Question time: Being intentional and productive in your day… a. sounds like I’ll be doing the same thing each day. b. is just what I need (or so I’m told). c. feels overwhelming – where do I start? d. all of the above Answer: D – all of the above. True, having a structure to your day-to-day is all of those…

  • 5 Reasons You Need a Routine NOW

    5 Reasons You Need a Routine NOW

    When I say the word “schedule” what comes to mind… … shackles on. … yawn city. … stodgy, boring, and bland. If you’ve ever felt like needing to follow a daily schedule, for say, school or a 9-to-5, was super restrictive, I’m here to remind you that you are the boss of YOU. In the…

  • 3 Support Tips When Leveling Up

    3 Support Tips When Leveling Up

    I conduct interviews for one of my clients. The interviews aren’t with her clients directly, but with colleagues and peers of the client. It’s what we call a 360 Evaluation. In order to best serve the client, we get the perspective of others around the client. It helps her to better coach the client, since…

  • Top 5 {Unconventional} Must Reads for the Confident Entrepreneur

    Top 5 {Unconventional} Must Reads for the Confident Entrepreneur

    Confession time: I LOVE books, buuuut I didn’t LOVE to read them until about five years ago. Even though I wasn’t reading them, I was fully aware of the magical expansiveness that the tiny box of bound paper held. It felt invigorating to know that practically anyone at any time could open a book and…

  • Working from home sucks and how to fix it

    Working from home sucks and how to fix it

    Act as if. Play the part. Fake it ’til you make it. They’ll believe it if you say it with confidence. When I left my corporate job to work in my business full-time, I decided to work from home. And boy was I was stoked! I could work in my pajamas, start and end my…

  • Good news – it’s not YOU, it’s ME

    Good news – it’s not YOU, it’s ME

    The other day, a fellow entrepreneur, Ashley, was worried about a client of hers. Her worry was that she wasn’t delivering for this particular client. You see, the client had recently told her that she no longer wanted Ashley to have full independence to complete tasks and projects when working within her business. Ashley had…

  • How to Plan a Life

    How to Plan a Life

    My friend’s son is turning ‘1’ next week and in lieu of presents, she’s asked us, friends and family, to write a letter to her son in the future. It’s part of a time capsule that he’ll open on his 18th birthday. I loved the idea instantly. And then I dragged my feet almost a…