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30 Powerful Ways to Spring Clean Your Business (Part 5)
Nature does not hurry and yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu Today we continue with part four of our six-part series, 30 Powerful Ways to Spring Clean Your Business. If you missed the first four episodes, you can find them here, here, here and here. This series...
30 Powerful Ways to Spring Clean Your Business (Part 3)
Spring is the time of plans and projects. ~Leo Tolstoy Today we continue with part three of our six-part series, 30 Powerful Ways to Spring Clean Your Business. If you missed the first and second installment, you can find them here and here. This series is inspired by...
30 Powerful Ways to Spring Clean Your Business (Part 2)
No matter how long the winter, the spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb Today we continue with part two of our six-part series, 30 Powerful Ways to Spring Clean Your Business. If you missed the first installment, you can find it here. This series is inspired by my CEO...
30 Powerful Ways to Spring Clean Your Business (Part 1)
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? ~ Neltje Blanchan Today I’ve got something fun and hopefully useful for you, as we dive right into these beautiful spring months. Over the next six episodes, I’m going to give you 30 powerful ways to...
Sprint through the next quarter with ease
"Spending time on secondary priorities is the reason you have 20 half-finished projects instead of 5 completed ones." ~James Clear Can you believe that spring is officially here, and quarter two of 2017 is already here? I don’t know about you, but these past weeks...
What you need to get about decision fatigue
"When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting." ~Anonymous Think about it for a minute. How many decisions do you make every single day? I bet it's in the hundreds. We live in a society that pulls at us from every direction. We often feel pressured to...
Be Choosey. Really Damn Choosey.
Overwhelm isn’t created by what you think it is. It’s not because of having too much on your plate. It’s not because you have a burgeoning to-do list that keeps growing. And it’s not because you’re trying to balance kids, family, laundry, writing, clients and more....
“Good for her, not for me.” (BPP #034)
I can’t go far without hearing the statement, “You do you.” It seems to be the quote-du-jour. This idea of “You do you” is similar in sentiment to Amy Poehler’s words, “Good for her, not for me.” These words come from her hilarious book, Yes, Please! The full quote...
How to Bring a New Idea to Life in 7 Steps
“Soon is not as good as now.” ~Seth Godin It’s one thing to have a notebook filled with killer ideas. It's quite another to take those ideas and execute on them. I've got more ideas than I do lifetimes, which means I have to regularly discern between an idea that...
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