Like many small business owners, I'm the primary bread-winner in my family. So I recently decided to purchase life insurance so my family would have one less thing to worry about if I die sooner than expected. Other than filling out the questionnaires, selecting the right policy amount and terms, …
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Boost Your Productivity, Boost Your Business
This article is one in the multi-part series entitled The Entrepreneurial Mindset. The U.S. Department of Labor just released statistics regarding productivity and costs for the first quarter of 2015 and it doesn’t look good. Among the numbers provided are that, even though labor costs have …
Top 3 Workplace Trends for the First Half of 2015
As Nathaniel Branden, the late Canadian-American psychologist who specialized in self-esteem once said, “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” Thus, in order to fully accept the changes in the workplace, one must first understand that they exist. So, what changes …
24 Tips to Easing Your Small Business-Related Insomnia
According to a Better Sleep Council survey conducted just last year, almost half of the adults questioned reported that they didn’t get adequate sleep. Furthermore, approximately one-third indicated that getting just one hour of additional sleep “was worth $100 or more.” If you are one of the …
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 …
What to Do When Owning a Business Is Raising Your Blood Pressure
Although my personality is slightly Type A, always striving to do my best and getting impatient when I feel like I don’t have control, I had never had any health issues because of it—that is, until I became self-employed. Within a year and a half of leaving my job with county government and trekking …
