I used to say I didn’t have a single entrepreneurial bone in my body. I was brought into business ownership when I married Rich…a guy with extreme independence, unique talent and big dreams. I fought incapacitating anxiety as we bade our small-but-consistent paychecks goodbye to launch our first business. I was 25 years old, starting a business with my (fairly) new husband, in a male-dominated industry, in a small California town where we essentially knew nobody. It was lonely, and scary, and I spent way too much time alone with my husband and three cats, creating websites for photographers using
Read moreIt’s inevitable. Despite the copious amounts of Airborne I have injested in the last five days, my body has succumbed to a cold. It’s a nagging, dragging sort of cold that leaves me wanting to do nothing other than sleep. Except I’m a mom…and everyone knows motherhood doesn’t stop, just because you’re sick! And I am sick. Still, work must be done, dinner needs to be made; the dishes need to be washed; and kids need to be read to, and kissed goodnight, when all I want to do is go to sleep. I’m partly writing this blog post to
Read moreIf you are an over-achiever who thrives on affirmation and acknowledgement of a job well done, then this article is for you. You probably were up late folding the last two loads of laundry; or working on a project (like a blog post); or planning out your next day’s meals… You may be a person who makes so many lists that you need a list to organize your lists. You are quick to take on new responsibilities, especially when you can see clearly how to make something better or easier. And you are probably very, very tired. You probably don’t
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