How to Find the Spirit of Your Business: 3 Key Aspects to Focus On

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How to Find the Spirit of Your Business: 3 Key Aspects to Focus On

You're self-employment curious, but you're not even sure what your business is or does. It's not clear to you what your business does and what it means to know what it does. You want to have confidence in knowing the general form of your business. I'll help orient you to the basics of your business. This also addresses what's required of the Executive Summary and Company Description sections of a business plan.

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Don't Let Rejection Plunge you into Despair! How to Prevail with Resilience!

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Don't Let Rejection Plunge you into Despair! How to Prevail with Resilience!

This month's blog article is perfect for those of you who want to face rejection without catastrophizing. Rejection is the biggest hurdle for self-employed businesses. Self-employed business owners like you CAN have a more resilient attitude toward rejection. I'll provide a framework by using Daniel Pink's book, "Selling is Human", to analyze the rejection. I'll apply this framework to understanding a personal experience of rejection. Take rejection in a positive light and used it to improve your skills, rather than view it as a failure.

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Do You Need a Vacation? Learn the Secret to Taking Time Off When Self-Employed

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Do You Need a Vacation? Learn the Secret to Taking Time Off When Self-Employed

Are you waiting for some future point of business stability before you go on vacation? Stop that! Learn how to plan for a self-employed vacation sooner rather than later. Whether your concerns are money, time or client experience, this article has you covered!

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Honor Your Body: How is Self-Care Fundamental to Self-Employment?

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Honor Your Body: How is Self-Care Fundamental to Self-Employment?

You love learning, growing, and self-improvement. But what about "not-doing"? Do you love rest and make time for it, or do you treat it like a luxury or treat? Downshift out of "frantic" and give yourself permission to take care of your body's needs.

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Don't Worry About Marketing Because You've Got a Team of Horses

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Don't Worry About Marketing Because You've Got a Team of Horses

No really, you do. Let me explain...

This blog article is for those who are struggling with too many marketing ideas, and not enough time. You want to navigate your marketing with tranquility and confidence. This article will clarify your marketing, resulting in a sane, reliable strategy for marketing your self-employed business.

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3 Lessons to Help You be a Good Self-Employed White Person

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3 Lessons to Help You be a Good Self-Employed White Person

For white people, it can be challenging to maintain the momentum of an anti-racist practice. When we think of anti-racism work in our self-employed business we often get even more stuck. Here’s a little update on my own practice and the huge shot in the arm it took over the summer!

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How Self-Employed Social Justice Warriors Can Combat Capitalism Through Business

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How Self-Employed Social Justice Warriors Can Combat Capitalism Through Business

Your goal is for your business to benefit yourself, but it doesn't stop there, right? You want your small, self-employed business to benefit the world, but that does seem like a big and lofty goal. In this 3 minute read, I'll connect the dots and illustrate how your business creates change.

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How to Easily Optimize Your Self-Employed Workday

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How to Easily Optimize Your Self-Employed Workday

Are you feeling overwhelmed working an 8-hour self-employed day? Maybe you feel like you're working endlessly, but it's never enough? It's time for you to adopt the 5-Unit Day.

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How to Get Quality When What You Have is Quantity: Networking for Extroverts

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How to Get Quality When What You Have is Quantity: Networking for Extroverts

Networking often seems to come naturally for extroverts. But being a people lover doesn’t mean that networking doesn’t still come with pitfalls! In this article, I tackle the overwhelm and impersonality that can often plague extroverts so that you’re cultivating high-quality connections and not just a high quantity of connections.

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Want to Feel Calmer? Learn How to Trust Your Marketing Inertia!

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Want to Feel Calmer? Learn How to Trust Your Marketing Inertia!

Marketing your business can often feel like a process of fits and starts. When we learn about the inertia that’s inherent in marketing we can find calm in the flurry or lack of activity that comes from marketing.

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An Unexpected Tool for Living Your Best Life

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An Unexpected Tool for Living Your Best Life

Seeing as this blog is mostly about starting a self-employed business, I can see how an article on meditation might seem off topic. In actuality, I’ve found that meditation is a vital tool as a business owner. Read on to see if I can get you on the meditation bandwagon!

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How to Embrace Self-Employment with Sanity

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How to Embrace Self-Employment with Sanity

Sometimes it can seem like self-employment is a race with a very ambiguous finish line. It benefits no-one if you exhaust yourself, and yet it can be hard to shift gears so that you’re living a balanced life while building your business. Here’s a metaphor that seems to help bring sanity to the over-achiever inside each of us.

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Unexpected Self-Employment Advice: Fire That Client

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Unexpected Self-Employment Advice: Fire That Client

It might seem counter-intuitive, but firing a client can be vital to keeping your self-employed business afloat! Read on to learn more about why that is and also how to identify a client you should fire, and how to do the firing.

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Feminism is the Strength You Need to Launch Your Business

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Feminism is the Strength You Need to Launch Your Business

Feminism has offered a critique of the working world, and I believe the trends it's noted have a correlation with trends I notice among women entrepreneurs. In addition to an explanation, I offer some strategies to bring feminism into your self-employed life. 

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Fantastic Coworking: 4 Steps to a Successful Work Date

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Fantastic Coworking: 4 Steps to a Successful Work Date

This is for all the lonely solopreneurs who are struggling to understand why past coworking experiences didn't go well. The success of a work date comes from clear expectations. Regardless of if it’s body doubling, collaborative ad-hoc sessions, or a standing weekly appointment, I’ll help you clarify your goals for your coworking. By the end of this article, you’ll be on the path toward more productive and gratifying coworking sessions!

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Keeping Centered in Your Business: Use Discernment

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Keeping Centered in Your Business: Use Discernment

When we’re in business for ourselves it can be easy to get knocked off center and waste valuable energy trying to get back to center. Here are strategies I use in my business that may help you to stay centered or return to center quickly by using discernment. 

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