About two months ago, my husband and I were sitting on the couch one night, both exhausted from our fuller than full schedules. I had been working seven days a week most weeks for almost four months and he was doing the same with school, striving to finish his degree before returning to work. In …
Entrepreneuring Articles and Interviews (category)
As an entrepreneur, you most likely wear many hats in your day-to-day work. Figuring out how to juggle all of the tasks you have to do, while still maintaining a life outside of work can be a challenge. Entrepreneuring articles focus on you, the entrepreneur, and how you can strengthen your areas of weakness when it comes to business and keeping a healthy work-life balance.
How One Woman Turned a Tragedy Into a Small Business Opportunity
Just seven short years ago, Gena Daniels wasn’t thinking about owning her own business. In fact, she was more than happy reading meters for a local electric company, tending to her family, and enjoying a dirt bike ride or off-roading with her Jeep through the trails. Then, in one life-changing …
How Knowing What You Want Can Help You Create a Better Business
This article is one in the multi-part series entitled The Entrepreneurial Mindset. I’ve always admired people who know exactly what they want in their professional life. Like the little boy who knows he wants to be a fireman when he grows up and actually becomes one. Or the little girl who has …
Are You Running a Business or Changing the World?
Take a moment right now and think about what made you want to start your own company. Was it to change your own world by earning a decent enough income to support yourself and your family, or was your goal to alter the world around you, positively changing it for generations to come? Well, when …
Dealing With Doubt
Whether or not we like to admit it, we all have a voice in the back of our heads. On some days, it’s an encouraging voice that pushes us forward and drives us to take risks. On other days, it’s a seemingly endless stream of negativity that tells us we should quit whatever we’re working on. As an …
4 Guilt-Free Reasons Every Small Business Owner Should Get Regular Massages
Guilt is a powerful emotion that can make you do things you really don’t want to do. Like when you agree to join a local committee even though you barely have time to get your work done as it is, or when you tell a client that you’ll take on a larger project knowing that it is going to cut into your …