Look at your scheduled, recurring time. Now, question it. → Do your clients actually require this level of support, or are you recreating what someone else does? Does it work for you? Where did this structure of your offer/services come from? Being a business owner requires ingenuity and innovation. Regurgitating what you’ve seen time and time again, structuring your business … Read More
How to Replace Yourself in Business
“When you find yourself repeating yourself, record yourself, and replace yourself.” -Tyler J. McCall Look for ways you can replace yourself. One of the easiest places to start is during your on-boarding process for new clients. The on-boarding portion of your business should be automated as much as possible, or at least, turned into a repeatable system for you to … Read More
How to Handle Non-Scheduled Recurring Time in Business
Welcome to hell on earth where your to-do list goes to die. Non-scheduled, recurring time. Let me (potentially) introduce you to the Eisenhower Matrix. So many of us live our lives inside quadrant 1: everything is an emergency. If your schedule is filled with clients, I totally understand loathing all things schedule-related as a way to rebel against the “constantly … Read More
How to Take Time Off When You’re a Business Owner
You have to earn the easy parts. Here’s the thing: You’ve been mislead. If you’re newer to these parts, you may have missed the years of hustling. While I don’t think you need to burn the candle at both ends for nearly a decade to finally earn your easy, you will absolutely need to work hard for quite some time. … Read More
Communication Strategies to Save Time in Business
Communication in your business breaks down because of 1 of 2 reasons. It sounds benign, AND you might think this isn’t an issue for you– but I can assure you, if you feel that your business is swallowing you whole, there is room for improvement with your communication with your clients. The two reasons are: 1. You don’t know what … Read More
How to Handle Client Co-Dependency in Your Business
Today we’re breaking down the innocent-sounding, often confusing pitfall of feeling OVERLY responsible for our clients’ success and how it’s ruining not only your business, but also your clients’ success. YES. This is a non-clinical co-dependency conversation. Are you encouraging your clients to think they cannot succeed without you? What do you do when you feel a client or clients … Read More
Curriculum Based vs Subscription Based Offers
Let’s look at the structure of your curriculum vs subscription based offers. First, let’s define the difference between those two types of offers: Curriculum based: Has hard start and stop date Subscription: has the ability to go on forever Even if your offer/service has an initial agreement length, if the client has the ability to renew and continue with the … Read More
The Performance Trap
There are thousands of traps we’ll find ourselves tangled within over the course of our lives. Some are relationship traps. Others are money traps. Some traps we set ourselves, and other times, we stumble into one with no forewarning. When moving away from diet culture and obsessive aesthetic pursuits, there comes a time where your next sticking point is navigating … Read More
How to deal with weight gain
So, we moved recently, & the scale had gotten packed away. It’s not my scale- I don’t use it. Believe it or not, I do not reign holy terror across this household, and I do not have the power to dictate if anyone else decides to torture themselves with a scale in this house or not. The gym is currently … Read More
6 Possible Reasons You Feel Like Content Creation Has You Screaming Into the Abyss
I love creating content AND I love “selling”. – creating high value content helps people for free. Most folks “hate selling”, but won’t step up their free content creation game. Yo! if you’re not yet comfortable selling, get comfortable creating high value free content which *does* require “playing the game”, unfortunately. – If you can’t get anyone to stop scrolling … Read More