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 your most talented employee quits and goes to work for the competition.

[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 to get ahead. These rules make up a hidden instruction manual we

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 I decided I deserved it. What I was really doing was running

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 to start this way, too. Even worse was the soul-crushing doubt that

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!” I believed I deserved it because it felt like I was working

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 gives us feedback in the form of results. We either get what