Business
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How to not buy ALL the things for self-development (Unless you want to)
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The time of inbox overflow and unsubscribing from a ton of mailing lists you signed up for to get a coupon on one order, then forgot about. The time of end of the year upgrades and deals on business services like Canva, Calendly, Zoom, and more. The… Read more
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How to Prevent Burnout for Small Business Owners
Burnout is a huge buzzword right now, because it’s a very real thing! Our society’s systems inherently lead to burnout. We are tired, overworked, underpaid, and too exhausted to figure out it’s all by design. The key to recovery and prevention is finding the solutions that work best for you, so this blog has 7… Read more
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How to Dress for Virtual Conference Calls, and Other Work From Home Tips
COVID-19 has led to many unexpected changes in how we live our lives and especially in how we do business. If you’ve found yourself thrust into the world of remote work in 2020, you’re not alone in navigating the challenges that working from home brings. From ensuring you’re dressed appropriately for screen time to figuring… Read more
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What We Keep Messing Up About “SMART” Goals
Goals should be SMART, right? Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. But a lot of us fail to pay attention to the achievable and relevant parts of the planning process. We stick to specific and time bound, and if life goes sideways or we get smacked with a global pandemic or an illness or family… Read more
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“I Quit My Job Over #BLM” — How Millennials Are Killing Businesses from the Inside Out
I have a background in marketing, branding, and social media. I’ve developed consumer personas of millennial and gen Z buyers, led rebranding meetings to capture a younger audience, and I’m a millennial consumer myself. This summer, I quit a marketing job in order to recover from burnout, begin a coaching practice, and pursue a career… Read more
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How to Make Any Criticism Constructive
1. Is this criticism true? 2. Is this criticism something I need to change to improve myself or my work? 3. Can I use this experience to learn something? Read more
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How to Be the Best at What You Do
If you were in the top 10% of what you do, whether it’s your day job, your life’s work, a hobby, or just showing up in your life, what would you do differently? Read more
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Fear of Criticism Was Keeping Me from Working on My Goals
The phrase, “What people think of you is none of your business” was confusing when I first heard it as a kid. But I’ve since realized it means that people are going to have whatever opinions of you that they have, and you can’t stop them. No matter what I do, I cannot control how… Read more
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How I Check My Email to Be a Better Writer
I aspire to be a person who goes to sleep with zero unread emails every day. It doesn’t always happen that way, because I’ll end up saving something as a to-do and then before you know it, that little red bubble on my phone says I’m slowly piling up emails again. But I need these.… Read more
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