Category: Encouragement

Solopreneur: You Are Your Business!

Solopreneur: You Are Your Business!

Part III: The Solopreneur’s Self-care Framework Prioritize self-care. Adopt the mindset that you are your business — the most crucial, important, and indispensable part of your business. This is the way to be “fine” or even “thriving” in the long period. How to do this? Through everyday small habits, which will take care of all […]

Solopreneur: You Are Your Business!

Solopreneur: You Are Your Business!

Part II: Self-care Makes You Bulletproof The only way to get strong in all the areas – from health problems, relationship drama, mental state to spiritual struggle – is to keep taking care of them on a daily basis. Keep taking care of you. You need to take care of your physical health, mental wellbeing, […]

Solopreneur: You Are Your Business!

Solopreneur: You Are Your Business!

Part I: Your #1 Priority Imagine a solopreneur or a small business owner with a very small team, who is still the heart and the brain of their company. What should be their priority?Probably, they are responsible for marketing and sales, maybe for part of the operations or admin stuff. What should be their number […]

How Not to Be Lonely at the Top

How Not to Be Lonely at the Top

Isolation is the worst enemy. Collaboration is a path to success. OK, so how to actually get out of isolation as an antrepreneur? There are four ways to do that, which I practiced myself and saw working. Plus, they are no secret, they were around for thousands of years, and they have been always working […]

Three Collaboration Success Stories in My Business

Three Collaboration Success Stories in My Business

In the first article in the How to Beat an Isolation as a Business Owner Series I explaied how isolation turns smart business owners into morons. Today, read about the other side of the coin: success stories of collaboration in business. I have an aesthetic taste of a brick and I didn’t know that. When […]

The Worst Enemy of Entrepreneurs (no, it is not the IRS!)

The Worst Enemy of Entrepreneurs (no, it is not the IRS!)

Freelancers, solopreneurs, and business founders face the same enemy, and it is mostly invisible: isolation. Isolation is the enemy of excellence.” – Aaron Walker You are alone with your thoughts all day long. Even if you have a team, there are some limitations to what you can share with them. Will they stay with you, […]

3 Roles of a Friend in Good Habits Formation

3 Roles of a Friend in Good Habits Formation

I can see at least three ways friends can support forming good habits right away. Probably, there are more. 1. Role Model. Human beings are mimicking machines. We mimic without thinking, unconsciously. So, if your friend has some good habits you are in a much better position to adopt similar habits. This is the one […]

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How Long Does It REALLY Take to Improve Your Life?

How Long Does It REALLY Take to Improve Your Life?

Changing one’s life is a lengthy process. We are so impatient. We dream about overnight success or a one-week life change. Somehow, it’s so easy to forget that your lifespan is measured in decades. One night or one week is only a tiny fraction of your life. So how long does it really take to […]

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