November 22, 2022

Want to Have Balance? Here's How to Find Calm and Confidence Now!

November 22, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

Are you struggling with feelings of anxiety or confusion and want to calmly and confidently pilot your life or business toward balance? This blog article is written for mindful, self-employed business owners who want to feel confident and balanced in their businesses. Allow me to illuminate a key element of how balance works, and the relationship between time and money. After reading this article you'll have tools to navigate business and life with more confidence.

August 25, 2022

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

August 25, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

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!

June 21, 2022

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

June 21, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

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.

April 26, 2022

How to Leverage Your Assets to Work Smarter, not Harder

April 26, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

Our financial system is far from ethical. What's even worse is that most of us don't understand how it works. Knowledge is power and in this article, I demystify how your business is financially an "asset" and uncover how assets function in our weird financial world.

February 23, 2022

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

February 23, 2022/ Maggie Karshner

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.

December 16, 2020

Seize the Holidays with this Terrific Vacation Strategy

December 16, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

How do you have a good vacation? Especially when there's nowhere to go? I've got the answer. It's called an email sabbatical and it's about to revolutionize your work/life balance.

August 31, 2020

How to Easily Optimize Your Self-Employed Workday

August 31, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

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.

May 27, 2020

Breakthrough Productivity: How to Motivate with Your Heart

May 27, 2020/ Maggie Karshner

Productivity can be elusive at times. It can be easy to skip this fundamental step: identifying why. If we don’t know why we’re doing the things on our to-do list, we’ll lack all motivation to be productive. Start here on your productivity journey. In next month’s article I’ll cover how to use this foundation to really take off!

August 29, 2019

The Opposite of Your Last Day

August 29, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

In this very unusual-for-me blog post, I share my current reflections from a place of grief.

May 31, 2019

When was the last time you had fun?

May 31, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

Being self-employed can be fun, and it can also be stressful! How are you choosing to bring an assortment of types of fun into your life? Read on to hear my thoughts!

April 29, 2019

An Unexpected Tool for Living Your Best Life

April 29, 2019/ Maggie Karshner

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!

December 21, 2018

How to Cure the "Never Enough" Feeling

December 21, 2018/ Maggie Karshner

It’s easy to fall into the trap of feeling like there’s never enough, whether that sentence ends with stuff, money or time. Here’s an article that investigates this feeling and helps to reframe “never enough” into “enough” leading to more joy and a greater impact.

November 15, 2018

How to Embrace Self-Employment with Sanity

November 15, 2018/ Maggie Karshner

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.

January 30, 2018

Fantastic Coworking: 4 Steps to a Successful Work Date

January 30, 2018/ Maggie Karshner

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!

March 24, 2017

Perks of Being Self Employed: Learning

March 24, 2017/ Maggie Karshner

Self employment comes with a wide variety of benefits, many of them are unexpected. One thing I love about being self employed is my freedom to follow my curiosity and learn more about the things I'm interested in. When you're self employed, everything you learn becomes a value-add to your clients. It's win-win-win all around!

December 22, 2016

Do Your Own Thing

December 22, 2016/ Maggie Karshner

Take the new year by storm and commit to Do Your Own Thing. The pressures to conform are ever present, but joy can only be found when we embrace our true self and bust out of oppressive office environments!

April 28, 2016

What to Do When You're Pissed at the Client Who No-Showed

April 28, 2016/ Maggie Karshner

That client canceled at the last minute, again. You didn't mention it before, but now it's getting to be too much. What do you do? It sounds like you’re struggling with having clients treat you the way you want to be treated. Keep reading to learn how to establish clear expectations that will ensure your clients treat you right. The secret lies in your cancellation policy. Let’s clarify so that you can love working with clients without the little headaches or nit-picky blowups!

March 31, 2016

Your Ideal Week of Self Employment

March 31, 2016/ Maggie Karshner

You got an interest in being self employed, and you're probably considering it because you want your life to be different than it is now. Creating your business with an eye on what your ideal week looks like can make for a very fulfilling experience with self employment!

Mar 31, 2025

Beat Your Weaknesses: How to Win as a Unique Self-Employed Business Owner

If you've never felt insecure when comparing yourself to others, this article isn't for you. For the rest of us normal people, we need to explore this and how it's impacting our current or future businesses. It's vital for self-employed businesses to understand their competitive advantages and disadvantages. But trying to understand this usually gets us stuck, demoralized, or frozen. Let me reframe competition and the dis/advantages of your business so that you can more easily succeed.

Feb 26, 2025

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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