March is wrapping up, which mean (brace yourself) 2016 is 25% over. What?!
It’s been a bit of a crazy, stressful start to the year for me, with changes to my business that are 85% awesome and 15% terrifying. Add in an imminent move to a new city so my husband can head back to school, and I’ve spent way too much time looking for how to be my best, happiest, most productive self in my business and general life.
Which is good news for you, because it means I’ve rounded up the best reads I’ve found in the last month!
Your brain doesn’t know the difference between being attacked by a sabre-toothed tiger and turning down that second piece of cake. Or sending that scary, important email pitch. Or going to a networking event. But you can still do it!
Sending shorter emails might change your life. Or at least make your work go much more smoothly.
What happens when you have created a successful, thriving business… but it’s not actually allowing you to live the life you want to live? Could you bring yourself to make a change?
“Even when my instincts were telling me almost every day to reevaluate the business, I kept going. I was quite literally chasing money all around the country. Nothing I was doing was in alignment with my true self. Over the last 12 months, I was on the road for 16 straight weeks, gone two or three nights per week, twice. I was doing work I was at best lukewarm about, not taking care of myself, and desperately missing my family.”
The internet is full of productivity hacks. Some of them are helpful. Some of them just make your life more stressful. It’s okay to close the window and say no to them!
What do you want to want? And is it worth it? “I want to want a multi-million dollar business. But I don’t. I like being me, myself, and I — the leanest business model on the planet — hiring peeps to help out as I need ’em. I don’t want the multi-million dollar business bonanza because there’s a strong possibility that with it would come a team, and people management, and the knowledge that ten or twelve or twenty or three hundred people rely on me for their paychecks. I would crumple under the pressure, feel trapped by those financial constraints, and promptly self-implode.”
The new Instagram algorithm, and what it means for you.
If you’re anything like me, you can get a lot done in a day… or you can end up looking at photos of puppies knocking over babies on YouTube for hours. That’s why we all need to be tracking our time. Here’s how to do it.
And a few posts around here you might have missed:
17 Ways to Make Your Brand Stand Out Online + 11 Statistics You Should Know About Email Marketing + How to Overcome a Motivation Slump
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