Running a Business While Human

You did everything right when you started your business: Did your market research, crafted a detailed business plan, secured funding, and launched! On paper, you look pretty good—so why do you feel like you’re falling apart? Many a great business is lost to the unspoken internal struggles of its leaders. This blog offers both the prevention and the cure for some of the biggest personal hurdles every small business owner will face.

Pull It Together: Discipline as a Cure for Overwhelm

The strength of the entrepreneur is vision, but weaknesses tend to show up around follow-up and attention to detail, which lead to dropped balls, inconsistent progress, and eventually total overwhelm. You need to find the discipline to impose order on chaos so you can still enjoy the thrill of the daily ‘bob and weave’ while continuing to grind effectively toward your goals.

Done Is Better than Perfect: Leveraging Talent as a Cure to Perfectionism

Analysis paralysis and micromanagement are symptoms of perfectionism which, left unchecked, can be fatal to your business. To clear the decks for real growth you must take calculated leaps of faith and strategically delegate so that you can throttle down and grow.

Find Your Tribe: Curating a Crowd to Cure Loneliness

Business ownership can get very lonely. But if you have the right kinds of people above you, beside you, and in front of you, you always have the right kind of human connection available. It is well worth the time and effort to curate a perfect cast of characters to surround yourself with. Doing so will keep you connected and inspired.

Compost that Sh*t: How to Respond to External Shocks

Legislative changes. A global pandemic. Even if you have everything possible in order, all businesses are vulnerable to wildcard external events. It’s important to learn how to absorb a shock and embrace chaos when it inevitably comes. You might be surprised at how fortuitous these ‘negative’ events can be. If you do it right, you may find yourself in a better place than if the shock had never happened.