Categories Archive: Personal Development

  • Are You The Best Student?

    Are you the best student? Most of the millionaires I interviewed weren’t great students to tell you the truth. There is a story after story after story about getting Cs and Ds because they couldn’t pay attention but that’s not what I’m talking about right now. What I’m talking about is, are you the best… View Article

  • Do You Have A Problem Letting Go

    One thing entrepreneurs are not very good at: surrendering. There’s a great book I highly recommend. It’s by Michael Singer. It’s called The Surrender Experiment. And what’s so interesting in my many, many years of one-on-one client work is that entrepreneurs kind of have an issue with control. We want to be able to manage… View Article

  • Design Dates

    In business, you probably have Q1, Q2, Q3, your goals are probably pretty gosh darn solid. At least most of us are, because we are really paying attention to that. The thing that I found that’s very interesting though, is the personal side. Even though we’re overachievers in business, the personal side can sort of… View Article

  • How To Structure Your Mornings

    How to structure your mornings before you check email? This question came in from Joshua Walker. Thank you so much for submitting this. So the only thing that I found that actually works is keeping my phone completely out of my bedroom, otherwise, I will automatically check my email. So if it’s very far away,… View Article

  • Fix Your Fear of Public Speaking

    How to fix an intense fear of public speaking? Well, a question came in about how I actually addressed that public speaking fear at the very, very beginning. I hated being in front of people. I was an art kid that was in the corner not talking to people, and not only that, I actually… View Article

  • You Don’t Need To Know Everything!

    It’s okay to not know. As a business owner, we tend to think that we are the problem-solvers of the entire world and that we should know how to do everything. And then, in our business, something comes up like, “Oh, do I fire this person? They didn’t do what I was supposed to do…. View Article

  • The Problem Always Stems From This!

    The problem always stems from this. I was actually interviewing Mike McDermott from Freshbooks the other day and he quoted an amazing quote. It says, “No matter what the problem is. It’s always a people problem.” And that’s actually by Gerald Weinberg’s writing. What he meant by that is not like fire your team. He… View Article

  • No Screen Sunday Challenge!

    Addicted to technology. Now, I know I did a video not that long ago about Facebook and deleting it off your phone. And a lot of you already had it deleted off your phone or did it that day and I’m so proud. Like a proud mom, right, because it is a huge turning point…. View Article

  • How To Train Your Team Without You!

    One quick tip on training your team without you, right? One of the things that we don’t do well enough as owners is to train our team. We’re like, ah, figure it out yourself. Well, one resource that I want to give you that can actually do an advanced sort of level, in a previous… View Article

  • Give Yourself A Freaking Break!

    Today, give yourself a freakin’ break. I’ve interviewed almost 500 millionaires that made their money in business and it is hard.I’ve also been inside hundreds and hundreds of six and seven-figure businesses and it is never easy. Simple maybe, and you and the work that you’re putting in with personal development and getting better and… View Article