Vacation from Your Business: Cool Tool #38

Vacation from Your Business: Cool Tool #38

I didn’t take a single day off for rest and renewal during my first year of full-time self-employment. Even though I loved my new profession, my clients, and being my own boss I ended up depleted. At the end of that year I treated myself to a week at a yoga workshop...
Focus: Less is More  Stress Tool # 31:

Focus: Less is More Stress Tool # 31:

Picture a 1950’s era home movie. Grainy footage shoot by a less than stable hand. You see a pair of smiling grandparents open their front door and step on to their small concrete porch. First a boy, maybe six years old, walks up the steps and gets embraced by...
Business Stress Cool Tool # 19: Breath Awareness

Business Stress Cool Tool # 19: Breath Awareness

Breath awareness is one of my favorite de-stressing tools. Three cool things about breath. Ever present. It’s true that if you stop breathing all your stress will go away. But as long as you’re still breathing, you’ll have this tool at the ready to help you de-stress....
Cool Tool #13: Get Help for Your Business

Cool Tool #13: Get Help for Your Business

Time and money. Ever been stressed as a business owner by time and money? When these two bad boys tango your stress multiplies. Today’s cool tool is a magician. It will help you with lack of time and money dilemmas all at once.  That’s pretty cool, don’t you think?...