Everything’s Overrated…Except For This
How many articles have you read where someone says something is overrated? Leadership is overrated. Talent is overrated. Your sense of self worth is overrated. Athletes are overrated. I agree with every sentiment that has ever been written on something being overrated. I will tell you why in a minute. What I don’t hear about being overrated is doing work. So back to my point about agreeing with every article that has called something overrated. Think about the amount of information that we are exposed to. The depth and breadth of the information as well as the speed with which we get it almost guarantees that we are going to
Can Writing Make You A Better Business Owner?
To write or not to write. That’s the question. Many business owners that I talk to feel like they don’t have time for writing or that it’s not important. Writing in and of itself won’t make or break your business but it could make you a better business owner. Writing is a great tool for self discovery and for gaining additional clarity about your business. It’s also a great way to be social in the social media landscape without being present. Today I wanted to go over some time where it may make sense to write and times where it may not make sense. Sales copy: If you are needing
The People Pleaser’s Guide to Productivity
Being a people pleaser can be a blessing and a curse. It’s great because, deep down, a people pleaser just wants other people to be happy. Being a people pleaser becomes problematic when it causes you to over-commit yourself to projects and tasks. How can you as a people pleaser, make people happy and be productive? Before I get into the mind set, what does the downside to being a people pleaser look like in business? I worked with one person in particular who had a hard time with being a people pleaser and running an effective business. They were constantly over-promising on deadlines and under-delivering their finished product. They
Are You Sliced Bread? 3 Questions To Ask To Make Your Business Exceptional
In business today, we want to be the best things for our clients since sliced bread. In an increasingly busy marketplace where there are too many choices and not enough time, how do you make sure that you are exceptional and that you are the one chosen. There are 3 questions that you can start the conversation with to unlock your exceptional activities and structure your business so that you can focus on those exceptional areas. Before I get into those questions, first think for a minute about the activities that you do on a day to day basis. You will have a wide range of things that you do
Want Better Productivity? Start With Soul Purpose
Business owners and people in general look all they have to do in a day and think that answer to their problems lies in just having more time. You can ask all you want but the reality is that you aren’t going to get it. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. What makes some people more productive than others? It start with knowing and understanding your Soul Purpose. At the base of productivity is having greater personal clarity. When you have that clarity about not only what it is that you should be doing but also how you should be doing it, you are able to
What If I Don’t Have Purpose or Talent?
The above question is one of the most heartbreaking questions that I hear out of people’s mouths when I chat with them about Soul Purpose. More often than not, people are convinced that there is nothing unique about them. So do you have purpose or talent? Read on and let’s find out. When something asks me the question of whether they have a purpose or not, I immediately know that they feel this way for 1 of 2 main reasons. The first reason is that they just haven’t spent enough time on personal reflection to find out specific answers to questions about their ability. The second is that we
My Soul Purpose Story
If you would have told me about Soul Purpose five years ago, I may have said something like, “Sounds great, call me when you land back on Earth.” When it came to my specific set of talents and abilities. I just never gave it much thought at all. This post is a journey through my Soul Purpose discovery process. When it came to having ability, I knew that there were some things that I did very well. Even easier to pinpoint was the list of things that I didn’t do well. ( Isn’t that always the case? We are always so good at what we suck at.) The problem is
2 Reasons to Keep Your Day Job
If you are a budding entrepreneur and you are looking to make the move from your current job to running your own business there may be some reasons why leaving your job is not the best idea. In fact I have come up with 2 reasons that keeping your day job may make sense. There are things at a job that are tough to deal with at times. Annoying co-workers, work that doesn’t always satisfy us and a pain in ass boss are just a few of the annoyances that we face on a day-to-day basis. Despite all that, there are some benefits to having a day job. The
Advice For The Working Entrepreneur
Running a business on the side while working at a day job is a great way to build some true job security and helps you exercise your creativity and passion to the fullest. It’s not easy to pull this off and to do so you have to have high doses of one ingredient, integrity. You may be saying to yourself that integrity is the easy part. Most of us think that we possess a high amount of integrity and in many cases, we do. When it comes to running a business, there is a small margin for error when you are dealing with clients that have paid for your
When Should You Keep Your Day Job?
It feels a little weird for me to be writing about keeping your day job on a blog about small business and entrepreneurship. But I do think there are some scenarios where you can build a business that you own without putting all your chips in the middle so to speak. I care about business owners structuring their business in a way that works for them and the question of when should you keep your day job is important. Everyone has heard or seen the romanticized version of the entrepreneur, the rugged individualist who overcomes all of the odds to build a successful business and becomes a millionaire. He/she
