Posts in category Your Effortless Business

Pride in a Job Well Done

Pride in a Job Well Done

  Pride is how you feel about your work versus how others feel. We take pride in a job well done. When we do our work well, we have a feeling of satisfaction, of being in control, of being contributing members of our community. We feel good. It’s not enough to do a good job […]

Esteem from your Business

Esteem from your Business

Being valued within our community and having status used to be crucial for survival. For most of human evolution being banished was a death sentence. We strove to prove our value within our community and feeling valued increased our sense of safety and well-being. Additionally, the higher our status, the more quality of life we […]

How Do You Build Connection in Your B...

How Do You Build Connection in Your Business?

One of the biggest benefits I see small business owners miss, is in designing their business in a way that allows them to bring their best selves. For instance you get to design how you want to connect with your team, your customers, your community and the world. What kind of connections do you want? […]

Make your Business Mean Something

Make your Business Mean Something

Your business can do more than simply provide your product or service to your customers. You can do good in the world, you can add a social component. There are several ways to do that in a way that allows you to do well at the same time. Percentage of sales You can give a […]

Mastery in Your Business

Mastery in Your Business

Your business has many roles in your life beyond providing for your economic needs. Today we’re talking about Mastery in your business. Mastery is one of the keys to fulfillment. We crave a sense of improvement. We want to know we are getting better at doing what is important to us. How can you bring […]

How to Figure out the Best Way Forwar...

How to Figure out the Best Way Forward by Looking at your Fundamentals

“Something’s changed and I don’t like it.” Josie was clearly upset. “What’s up?” “I’ve been contacting my clients just like you said, but they haven’t been booking follow up appointments with me the way they used to. I don’t know what I am doing differently.” “I noticed you didn’t buy that tech you talked about […]

Why DID you start your business?

Why DID you start your business?

“Why oh why did I start this business?” George was not happy. He’d worked hard for years to build his cafe business, but now he told me he had a hard time getting out of bed in the mornings. “I can feel my business slipping, I feel it slowly eroding as I lose my passion […]

Why you have plateaued in your busine...

Why you have plateaued in your business and what to do about it

You know that feeling in your business that no matter how much harder you work, you aren’t making the progress you should. You are doing all the right things, the things that worked in the past. The things that others are doing and getting great results. The things all the books, gurus and courses are […]

Your Effortless Business Guide

Your Effortless Business Guide

What does your effortless business look like? You have carefully crafted the Journeys that you, your customers and your team take through your business. The two mistakes most business owners make is to think it is more complicated than that and they stop before they have completed building their business. There are eleven essential algorithms, […]

How can systems help when it’s ...

How can systems help when it’s all going to hell in a hand basket?

Many business owners resist putting systems in place because there is just too much going on and they can’t see how systems can even stay intact. let alone help with emergency situations. And there are always emergency situations. How to deal When I was a construction manager, my crews would come into my office and […]