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

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 things that could go wrong, and wondering if I could do it

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 your business, try an experiment. Pretend you’re in a debate and take