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4 systems to eliminate distraction
“I just can’t seem to stay focused on Strategic Work,” a client of mine told me recently.
Develop your key business systems
The Seven Essential Systems represent every system your business needs to work. Our free EMyth Mastery Worksheets help you understand each system and give you the tools to start building more structure into your business.
Tips on managing a seasonal business
Many small businesses experience the bulk of their annual sales during a short season or cycle. For many retailers it’s the holidays. For fitness centers, January new years’ resolutions typically bump up new business only to dissipate in the summer months. Some businesses do amazingly well when the weather gets wa...
3 steps to achieving your business vision
Entrepreneurial vision has been the catalyst for change throughout history.
How to grow (and protect) your business by mastering your finances
It’s tax season, a time when finance—and finance management—is on all my clients’ minds. So I usually take the opportunity to ask them: “Are you abdicating or delegating your finances to your accountant?” In other words: Do you defer to your accountant, waiting for them to give you financial results that’ll help y...
Entrepreneurial artist to business owner
Can you be a business owner and still be an artist? There are many talented and successful artists working hard every day to do what they love. Some people are able to periodically earn money with their passion, but for many artists, that income is not enough to consider it a “living.”
Stop overpaying your small business taxes
The money you make in your business is hard-earned. It’s the reward for all of the sales calls, difficult client deadlines, and customer support challenges. So it’s hard to give it up to anyone—least of all the government. Yet, taxes are a part of doing business in almost every country on earth. And we want you to...
The financial tools and teammates you can't afford to live without
If, after reading part one and part two in this series, you’re starting to see the value in better understanding your financial performance, then we’re in a good place to move forward. If you’re thinking, “Sure, that all sounds good, but there’s no way I have time to put this much energy into tracking and thinking...
How healthy is your small business?
Perhaps you use Google Analytics to track every visitor to your website, right down to the country they’re visiting from. Maybe you even use wearable technology and a smartphone to measure the steps you take in a day or how much sleep you get at night. But what are you doing to measure the financial health of your...
What it takes to develop a high-performing team
You need people. But not just any people: You need a high-performing team. The kind of team that makes your systems—and your business—really work.
When Kim found her vision
When I started as a business coach, my life did not look like it does today. I lived in the city, in a house that was in the middle of a subdivision. I worked for someone else and had never considered myself an entrepreneur. My default vision at the time was that I would continue to build a career for myself insid...
How to work ON it while working IN it
Have you ever found yourself emptying the trash at the end of the day? What about printing shipping labels, cleaning dishes, packing boxes, entering receipts or customer data, or loading trucks? (Or maybe all of these things?) And all this is on top of the work you do selling, responding to customers, completing t...
Overcoming org chart writer's block: Results oriented
This is the fifth installment in helping you fully develop and implement Org Charts and Position Agreements, which support a culture of ownership within your business. “My employees know what to do, but if one thing goes wrong, they just stand around.” “They can get the job done—but only in the slowest possible wa...
Overcoming org chart writer's block: Implied vs explained
This is the fourth installment in helping you fully develop and implement Org Charts and Position Agreements, which support a culture of ownership within your business. Click here for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Fully implementing your Position Agreements is an endeavor that requires simple steps over time. It starts ...
Overcoming org chart writer's block: From paper to people
This is the third installment in helping you fully develop and implement Org Charts and Position Agreements, which support a culture of ownership within your business. Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. If you followed my previous blogs—and you kept it simple—you should have a Position Agreement for each role in yo...
What I discovered on my quest for work-life balance
I’m in the upstairs bathroom writing notes on my iPhone when it strikes me—the apparent irony of me sketching out notes for a blog post about work-life balance while in the middle of giving my daughters a bath. I left work hours ago but had hardly left my work behind me. And in that moment I felt so close to the m...