Posts Tagged ‘Blog’
Living The Dream: Are You Balancing Life And Work Intentionally?
I don’t hide the fact that I worked damn hard to build this business – hard and smart that is. But there’s always room for optimisation. Knowing what I know now, I probably could have done it in half the time, but as they say, everyone has 20:20 vision in hindsight. While I do think you have to put the effort in to start off with to get the right momentum (money loves speed) you shouldn’t be killing yourself.
For me personally, if my income isn’t secure I can’t relax, and that is what drove to me work harder than perhaps I should have. The good news is that for the past few weeks, I’ve been working hard… at not working so hard!
Is Ambition A Dirty Word?
Are you ambitious? Do you want to be?
While I was on my trip home recently, I heard from a couple of women that ambition is a dirty word. They mentioned that women are reading things like Lean In to work on speaking up, being heard, and recognizing that ambition is a good thing.
This was kind of strange to me! It could be that I was away from English speaking culture for a decade and I missed the memo, but I always believed that ambition is good – and I felt like there was something wrong with me that I am not especially ambitious! At least at work.
It’s a question that’s dogged the corporate world for decades, seen as perhaps one of the reasons that there aren’t as many female CEOs and executives. But are women naturally less ambitious than men? Not necessarily. A recent study showed that executive women actually have more ambition to reach the next level in their workplaces.
So if we’re not naturally less ambitious, maybe it’s something else. Maybe we are ambitious about different things.
13 Top Outsourcing Sites To Find And Hire Reliable Freelance Help For Your Online Business (Without Going Broke)
It’s time.
You’ve realised that, as a small business owner, you really can’t do everything.
But your business is growing and you have jobs that must get done – just not necessarily by you.
Congratulations.
It’s a good sign when you’re ready to hire help for your business.
It’s become easier than ever to find someone willing to complete your most important tasks…
…but if you’re in the early stages it can be frightening and seem ridiculously expensive to find good help.
Never fear:
The Internet, in its vast wisdom, has created lots of places where you can hire quality help without going broke, and I’m going to give you a list of my top favourite freelance and outsourcing sites.
I’ve searched the web and turned up several popular freelance and outsourcing websites like Elance, Evanto Market and Zirtual.
Learning how to outsource is imperative to long-term success, especially if you want to have a life outside of your business.
First, a word of warning: Read More
How To Know If It’s Time To Seriously Reconsider Your Business
Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And so does every business.
It’s perfectly natural that, just like everything else, a business has a lifespan. It might be a hundred years, or it might be just a few months.
So how do you know if your business is reaching its final act (and what do you do about it if it is??)
If something about your business isn’t working, it’s probably reaching a turning point. In my experience, these turning points usually fall into one of three categories.
How I Got Out Of My Business Comfort Zone And Found Great Results
Busting out of your business comfort zone is one of those buzz words that people use a lot, but that ultimately ends up not meaning very much. It gets diluted by the many lists of tips on how to break free from that comfort zone, but there are very few examples of what it actually looks like.
Well, I can tell you what it looks like from experience: It looks messy.