Bad Habit Four: Beating Yourself Up for Not Doing More Your business life is like your purse. Whatever size it is, you will fill it up. Working full-time and have your business on the side? The work will fill up every hour you give it. Carving out 20 hours a week for your business? You’ll [...]
Bad Habit Three: Letting Not Knowing What to Do Stop You in Your Tracks One of the biggest reasons people give for not taking more business-building action, or higher risk business-building action, is that they don’t know what to do. Fair enough. As long as you don’t stay not knowing and not doing. The truth [...]
Bad Habit Two: Not Knowing When to Think Big and When to Play Small It’s confusing. In the small business world, we hear a lot about thinking big and playing big. Earnest experts entreat us to honor our purpose and our mission and to settle for no less that the abundant material rewards and recognition [...]
Bad Habit One: All-or-Nothing Thinking This is part of a short series about how to put feet to your dreams of doing the work you really love. As much as I am all about connecting with your biggest, deepest message, I am equally passionate about healing EVERYTHING that keeps you from living in alignment with [...]
I get it, not everyone wants to know their bigger, deeper message. Some business owners just want to know what to say to get more clients. And there’s lots of people who can teach you how to do that. The problem is, you may end up getting clients but feeling like you don’t like the [...]
Yesterday, we talked about what it takes to have a funky, maverick business. There are many wonderful tools and processes to help you get more clarity about who you are and to find words to share that with others. You can work on your niche, juice up your elevator speech, write red-hot copy, define your [...]
One of the things I realized this summer is that no matter how eager I am to fit in, the truth is that I was brought here to create a funky, maverick business. Every time I try to follow the straight and narrow path of convention, life shows up and says “I don’t think so.” [...]
For the last few months, I’ve been working intensively with spiritually-oriented business owners on releasing the unconscious patterns and block that keep them from making and keeping more money. What I found was that nearly every one of the business owners I spoke to and worked with admitted that one of the biggest ways their [...]
Lesson 7: Don’t Go It Alone This is part of a short series on how you, as a business owner, can get better results making more of the skills, talents, knowledge, and resources that you already have. If you want to read the first six lessons, go here: http://soundbiteshaman.com/category/get-more-of-the-right-things-done Humans are social animals. We do [...]
Lesson 6: Make Peace with Your Negative Thoughts This is part of a short series on how you, as a business owner, can get better results making more of the skills, talents, knowledge, and resources that you already have. If you want to read the first five lessons, go here: http://soundbiteshaman.com/category/get-more-of-the-right-things-done If you’re human, you’ll [...]