Ever have days where you wish you could just sell your business? Cash out and escape it for good? Like when your third operations manager in a row quits and you have to jump back into running the day-to-day. Or maybe it’s when

[Article by Debbie King published by FastCompany.com. Photo: Brooke Cagle/Unsplash] Our subconscious is filled with rules, do’s, don’ts, and “truths” we’ve been collecting since childhood.  There’s not enough time, so hurry. No matter what you do, it must be the best. Work hard

I used to spend a lot of time resenting my business and trying to escape from it. One time I took a three-week trip to New Zealand to ride horses on the spur of the moment because the stress was too much, and

Does this sound familiar? “Before I’m even fully awake in the morning, I start worrying about my business—the bank account, the staff, the clients or the proposal I have to write.”  I hear this from business owners all the time, and my day used

When I was dating my husband, who is a financially conservative guy, I used to come up with all these extravagant vacation ideas. One time I said, “Let’s go spend a week in Maine in August at a brand-new home on a lake!”

How to Get Better Results in Less Time. It’s tempting to think the fastest way to get results is to act fast. As business owners, most of us have a bias for action because it’s something we can do and feel. Plus action

I want this – so why am I overwhelmed? Winning a large contract and hiring new staff is supposed to feel good, right? But in the past, I would feel overwhelmed instead. Overwhelmed with all the things I had to do, all the

How to Scale Your Services Business by Creating Products If you own a services business and are finding it hard to scale, have you considered turning your services into solutions you market as “products?”  If you hear yourself saying it won’t work for

Do you ever feel frustrated with your business? Resent it a little because it feels like one crisis after another?  I remember when frustration was the primary feeling I had when thinking about my company. I would feel this way every time and