How digital tool stop us from making big leaps
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In The Shallows it says that knowing lots of stuff is thinking. Because you know a bunch of stuff you have lots of neurons to make connections with. You can pull on your wealth of information and combine disparate facts to come up with new theories. By letting ‘the web’ hold so much of our knowledge
These 7 Essential Questions will improve your relationships
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Everyone is a coach — even you — although it may not say that on your nameplate. You may not have employees, and thus don’t need to coach them to be awesome, but you’re still a coach. You may not be a business coach like me and get paid to help people run an awesome
Why the best consultants are comfortable with silence
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In an interview on The Good Life Project, Sherry Turkle talks about the ‘boring’ parts of conversation. When talking to students she’s found that they want to pull out their phones whenever there is a lull in the conversation. Some of them didn’t even know what a ‘lull’ was, and when it was explained to
The 3 Legs of a successful business
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What does it take to have a successful business? You can not build it and they will come. Are you just running a hobby that sort of pays the bills usually? Today we’re going to talk about the 3 legs of the stool that you need to have in your business. If you’re missing any
Not all practice is the same, here’s what good practice looks like
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We’re regularly told that we should focus on our strengths and let others deal with those things we’re not good at. So we take that advice and delegate that which we’re not good at. The problem here is that so often we train ourselves to equate anything ‘hard’ with something we’re not good at. We
4 reasons a great business owner tracks their time
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I haven’t tracked my hours in years. I’ve had no need since I don’t charge by the hour and I was so terrible at remembering to click start on that timer. But recently I realized I was missing a valuable metric for monitoring the health of my business. [Tweet “Time tracking can be a valuable
How to set boundaries with clients
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Most clients are awesome people. They know that you bring value to their organization and the treat you like the professional that you are. But what about those clients that don’t value you? That keep stepping over the boundaries and pushing you to provide more without an increase in your fees? How do you set
Need help today? Look back at these ancient thoughts
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The truth is, there are no new ideas. Everything I’m writing, and that any author is writing, has been written. With that in mind we don’t need to simply look to the new books being written. In fact, in many cases there is much more to be gained from reading things written long ago. So
The one attitude that’s harming your business
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While you may be good at your craft, that doesn’t necessarily mean you should be running a business. Outside of all the business stuff you may not be good at — like accounting and marketing — there is a single attitude that sabotages so many business owners’ success. In his book Ego is the Enemy,
4 reasons your business is stagnant
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When you started your business you had dreams..big dreams. You were not going to work all the time. You were going to spend time with your kids or your spouse. You were going to go for bike rides and take photo walks and hang out with friends in the evenings still. But that’s not happening.
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