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Is Your Business Unique to You?

As businesses of one, solopreneurs have the power to create work that is custom-tailored to their definition of freedom, the lives they want to live, and their specific talents.

Where 9-5 jobs ask...

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How To Focus on What’s Important and Actually Get It Done

 

In 1954 President Eisenhower cited the juxtaposition between importance and urgency in his famous quote, “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are...

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SMART Goals Are so 2019… Do This Instead

SMART goals: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Google “Goal Setting,” and this is the first thing that comes up. It is the standard for how everyone from your...

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Turn Your Skills Into Dolla Bills

I’m what people refer to as a generalist. Project management is a skill set that is replicable across all content areas and applications. That doesn’t mean I am the best fit for any...

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How To Take a REAL Vacation When You Work for Yourself

 

When you work for yourself, by yourself, “time off” can be a bit of a paradox—you can be much more flexible about having “time off” day-to-day, but it can be...

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3 Reasons Freelancing Makes Me a Better Parent

Being a working parent has never been easy. Traditional work scenarios are designed for people without boundaries and constraints with performance (explicitly or implicitly) tied to long workdays...

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Four Ways to Reboot Your Business Model

 There are as many types of solopreneur business models as there are solopreneurs. When you work for yourself, by yourself, you can reinvent what you do whenever you want.

That’s...

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Six Ways To Start Thinking Like a Boss

Traditional employment conditions us to be dependent.

When you work for other people, they take care of you. Your paycheck goes into your account and has already been taxed, your 401K has...

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When You're Addicted to Entrepreneurship Success Has Nothing to Do with Money

Entrepreneurship is a risky business. (Pun intended.)

About 20% of businesses will close in their first year and only 50% will survive past the five-year mark.

And that’s just the actual...

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The Antidote to Languishing Isn’t Focus, It’s Idleness

best life better world time Jun 22, 2021

For the last month or so I’ve found it incredibly difficult to be productive.

This is not common for me — I love my job, I love my work, and I love “getting things done.”...

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