This week I’m reprising some emails I sent out early in the pandemic to help remind folks of the basics and make sure we’re still focused on keeping everyone connected. Earlier the subject was the team and clients; today I want to talk about taking care of your company’s #1 asset, you! Tame the anxiety When…
“That which has been done well, has been done quickly enough.” ~ Cesar Augustus Over and over, we get the advice that we need to go faster. But there’s a problem with faster. We can’t keep getting faster, faster, and faster; there’s a limit to how fast we can go! The faster we go, the…
So, you made it to the first week of December 2020. Congratulations! Well done. Have you noticed that, even during the pandemic, December is the crazy-busiest time of the year? Clients want stuff done before the budget year is over. You’ve got your own year end stuff to work on. There are family traditions and…
Confucius said: We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. I talked with an agency owner this month. He was earnest about growing his business. “I’m just going to burn hard on my business for like 10 years, then sell it and enjoy life,” he told me. I…
For me, it started slowly. In the beginning, I reserved Fridays: no client meetings, no commitments. Friday became the day I worked on my business. I was panicked! What would clients say if I told them I couldn’t meet on Friday? No one even noticed. So then I got excited, what if I reserved Mondays…
You have one job to do; you need to keep your business moving forward no matter what is happening in the larger world. But that “larger world” isn’t making it easy! We’ve got a pandemic with an ever-shifting public health response. What support will we get from the government? Who is this going to impact…
Yes, I love it when I can plan my budget for the year and then month-by-month tick off achievement after achievement. That feels great; it builds my confidence and makes me feel so smart! But I don’t learn much during those times. When everything is going great, I tend to get a little cocky and…
When things are shifting and uncertain, it’s tempting to try to think our way out of the uncertainty. If I can get more information; if I can talk to more people, or work out a more through plan… That’s not how uncertainty works. In fact, that’s how our anxious brain works. Our anxious mind runs…
Last week’s email about “Focus increases Traction” produced this response from one reader: I’m prompted by your email about trying to do too many things at once and how much you can get done when you finally focus with a group that will hold you accountable and help you workshop your ideas. Over the last…
Let’s say it was your job to get 3 large stones up a hill. Would you pick up one stone, move it 3 feet, then go back and pick up the second stone, move it 3 feet, and then move the last stone that same 3 feet? Repeating that process over and over until all…