For business owners, high-quality sleep isn't just a good idea - it's essential for longterm growth and success ... these tricks for better sleep will help. The truth is, many of us are not getting the quality sleep we so desperately need. Check out these alarm-ing (pun intended) …
Self Care
The People Pleaser’s Cure: Why It’s Ok Not to Be Liked
Are you a "People Pleaser"? Here are five reasons you'll love learning how to be ok with not being liked by everyone. Do you consider yourself a highly likable person? Can you get along with almost anyone? Do you enjoy a life with very little confrontation or dispute? If you answered each of …
5 Simple Self Care Tips
Add a little self-care to your routine this December: 5 tips. For some, December is the most joyous of all the months. The snowfall, the decorations, the merriment and everything else; it thrills us and throws us into the ever mentioned "holiday spirit." However, for some of us, this time …
Get Inspired and Get Moving!
All too often when we're feeling unmotivated and uninspired in our work, we wait for a change to miraculously come from within us. In these "slumps" as some call them, it's easy to forget that often the quickest way to spark change within is to change the outer - be it surroundings, activities, or …
5 Steps to Making Difficult Choices Without Regret
Do you remember the last time you had to make a really difficult choice? If it was recently, then you probably remember quite well how agonizing it was. Whether it was choosing which meal to order at a fancy restaurant or which career path to pursue, for most us, it's the taunting fear that we'll …
Letting Go of Perfectionism
I'm performing tomorrow night with my band at a local jazz festival in my city, and you know what? I'm not stressed or nervous about it. Not one bit. At this moment, I have total faith that everything is going to run smoothly and that the night will be a total success. It occurred to me, as I was …
Your Life or Your Inbox: 3 Tips
Can you remember life before email? I'm 35 years old and very thankful that I can. It was a simpler, more peaceful existence. Slower paced and far less chaotic. But as with everything, the world changes - it always will - and we must change right along with it if we want to keep up. In many ways …
Terrified to Speak? Remember These 3 Things.
I was recently a guest speaker at LA2M, a popular monthly marketing group in downtown Ann Arbor. Each month LA2M presents a speaker on a marketing-related topic, be it messaging, social media, lead generation, or anything else. When I was asked to speak at LA2M, I knew I wanted to speak about web …
Unfinished (Jigsaw) Puzzle
It's my belief that every single one of us has an unfinished jigsaw puzzle in our home, somewhere or other. (let me explain) A few months ago on a Saturday afternoon, I decided to head downtown with no agenda whatsoever. My aimless wandering eventually led me to the back corner of a small gift …
Your Gut is Talking to You.
Do you know that feeling you get in your stomach when you don't quite want to do something? For me it's a subtle discomfort that sits right below my rib cage. I know when it's there because I start squirming in my chair a little, and rocking restlessly back and forth. Do you know that feeling I'm …