“I shouldn’t have hired all those people,” you think. “I should have waited until next year to upgrade our systems,” you say. “I never should have paid for that training,” you complain. Do you find yourself second-guessing your business decisions now more than ever? Especially the investments you made to grow your business? Instead of

“If I have lots of services and work with many types of customers, I’m more diversified. It’s safer.” I hear this a lot and I remember when I used to believe this too. I also believed that I should never turn away work, or I would be sorry later. Then I discovered that these two

What I’m hearing most right now is how OVERWHELMED business owners are feeling. It can immobilize us, especially in times of uncertainty.  Change and overwhelm go together. Whether it’s a change foisted upon us or one we intentionally choose, there’s a part of our brain that wants to resist it. Because change = danger to

“What’s love got to do with it?” I said to her. I’d already tried everything else (consultants, seminars, books, podcasts, retreats), and I was still miserable in my business. So this time, I hired a coach. She had just dropped a truth bomb: “Decide on purpose to love your business again.” At first, this sounded

When we start our business, we want the freedom to run things our way. To decide what we do, when we do it, and how. But as your business grows, you may fall into the “owner’s trap,” and here’s how it happens: You have lots of energy (and lots on the line) initially, so you

“They have a signed contract with me! It’s not fair. We won’t hit our financial targets this quarter because of this, which is the worst possible timing,” I listened as my client vented. Over time, as Melissa’s business grew, she landed larger contracts. The day she won her first $250K project, she told me the