One of the hardest things about business ownership is learning to control yourself! I’m not talking about skipping desert. I’m talking about controlling your thoughts and actions at work. This argument could be made for just about anyone at their job but as the owner of a business it can be even more important. Controlling [...]
I’m going to admit something to you….. This post is more of a therapy session for me than informational for you. As you walk through my head during the next five minutes maybe we can find some common ground and we both can get some help at the same time. Distraction is ever-present in my [...]
Whatever you do, don’t force it! This can be applied to all sorts of stuff. Parts need to fit just right in so many ways. Remember the time when ‘assembly was required’ and two pieces weren’t going together right; you forced it? What happened? It broke, right? Forcing it in the physical world breaks things [...]
I just had an extremely frustrating and stressful interchange with a client on the final pricing for their master bathroom project. What did I do? I fired them as a client! It wasn’t an ugly situation (although it might still get that way) and I wasn’t rude but I decided it was time for me [...]
Stress is often synonymous with business ownership. Let me tell you something, it doesn’t have to be! To be truly effective at running a business you’ll need to learn how to eliminate the stressors you can and manage what remains. No matter how hard you try you’ll never be able to get rid of all [...]