Category: manage your business

  • 1 Thing to Ditch in Your Biz Right Now (and Forever)

    1 Thing to Ditch in Your Biz Right Now (and Forever)

    I’m just going to say it AGAIN and I know most other people, brands, and companies are saying it, too – there’s a lot that’s uncertain in our lives this moment: What’s going to happen over the coming weeks and months? How’s our world going to shift? What changes will come out of this to…

  • I Had To Put My Mask On First

    I Had To Put My Mask On First

    You might have noticed that I’m posting this on a different day and time then what you’re used to. Oh, and that you didn’t hear from me at all last week.  I wasn’t ignoring what was going on around the world.  It’s that I had to put on my own mask first.  The very short…

  • Just Say NO

    Just Say NO

    I’m getting straight to the point today.  Because I’m a straight shooter and you know I like to tell it straight up in a no-nonsense way. The reason you’re constantly running yourself ragged, plowing through one unfilling project after the next and sitting in countless snooze-fests, also known as meetings, is because you’re not doing…

  • How to Strengthen Team Communications

    How to Strengthen Team Communications

    Last week, we walked through the 4 must-haves to streamline your business operations.  Three of the four are hard systems tools for Project Management, Schedule Management, Inbox Management. Whewww, that’s a lot of managing going on, isn’t it?!? The last recommendation of Team Communication might have caught you a bit off-guard, though.  So I want…

  • What to Pay Your Independent Contractors

    What to Pay Your Independent Contractors

    Do you want to clone yourself? What I mean is, do you dream of the day when you aren’t the sole provider of your service?  Where you can help more people because it isn’t only you delivering your services?  I know, how freakin’ cool would that be, right?  Many business owners have a vision of…

  • Don’t Scratch That Itch

    Don’t Scratch That Itch

    A colleague forwarded me a video from Simon Sinek riffing on millennials in the workplace. (You can catch the full clip here.) It’s not what you think. Although, if you’re familiar with any of Sinek’s work, you likely know where he was headed.  Part way through the conversation, he laid this one on us: “Everything you…

  • What I Learned About Business From My Rock Heroes

    What I Learned About Business From My Rock Heroes

    Quick question – are you a fan of Game of Thrones? Yes, you say – sweet! What about 00’s country music? Not so much. Well, that’s okay.  How about 90’s rock? Okay, now we’re getting somewhere.  Whether you’re a fan of GoT or country or rock music or none of the above, you’ll appreciate this…

  • 20 Ways to Crush It This Year

    20 Ways to Crush It This Year

    Holy smokes! We’re almost upon a whole new year and an entirely new decade. The time is simultaneously flying by and not going fast enough. I’m grateful and impatient. I want change to occur and new experiences to happen.  Yet, I know lasting, next-level growth can’t happen overnight. It’s bit by bit, step by step.…