Do you ever have that disturbing feeling that trying to squeeze one more piece of new information in your brain will render you senseless? Information overload causes stress and a loss of productivity. We're so busy gathering information that we never get into action around implementing all these great ideas. And we can't seem to put our fingers …
44 Tips for Dealing with Overwhelm: The Ultimate Guide for Entrepreneurs Who Do Too Much
As a small business owner, there are often too many ideas, too many tasks and projects, and not enough time or resources. Entrepreneurs are a creative bunch of people and we're always thinking of new ideas! But are you dealing with the overwhelm, or letting it slow you down? I don't know anyone who isn't time-constrained. We all have busy lives, …
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Think Small and Accomplish Great Things
Mary was ready to create huge changes in her consulting business. How exciting, having a big dream! She had a million ideas and a solid, well-planned task lists to back up the big plan. Except there was one small problem – Mary's dream was dying on the vine. By thinking big she was overwhelming herself. She was paralyzed. Mary asked me, …
Self Sabotaged by Research
A woman in one of my mastermind groups posed a question recently: Why did she spend all her time doing research and never actually get on with doing the thing she was researching? She loved looking up information, finding resources, interviewing people, gathering facts. But taking these facts and applying them to her business seemed to …
Free Information Isn’t Enough Anymore
I have ebooks, audios and videos sitting on my hard drive that I've never consumed. I bet you do, too. Free information is everywhere. Even if it's excellent, it's not always easy for your audience to digest it and create a strategy around it. The next place of growth for service professionals and information marketers is to take all the free …
Eeek! Shiny Object Syndrome!
It seems to be a trend that's growing: small business owners are getting distracted by too many ideas or the latest fad, going off in a million directions and never completing anything. (Employees suffer from this, too!) This loss of focus is costing people hundreds of hours a year in lost productivity, lost hours, lost dollars. It even has a …