Category: Make It Simple

Two things every small business entrepreneur endures

small biz metaphors
brand new (left) and well-worn (right)… same shoe, different factors… small biz metaphor

 

Two things every small business entrepreneur endures:

1. uncertainty
2. patience for success

This month I’m inviting the Mid Life Celebration community to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. It couldn’t be easier to go from this HQ blog to the mental attitude blog , just click -> go to Next Blog

 

Your life – by design or by default?

intentionality
everything, every element, is by design = world’s most admired company

 

Your life – by design or by default? It’s one or the other.

One is methodical. Intention epitomized.

The other? Lack of intention epitomized.

One triumphs.

Constantly.

The other strangles.

Constantly.

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The fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

100 consecutive hours is a long stretch of time
work life balance
same but different

Partying and wild times are stereotypical Saturday night activities, as is sitting in a Church pew on Sunday morning. Depending how long you go at it Saturday night, you may still smell of the good time in Church. Yet they are two distinct arenas.

Where does a traveling business professional distinguish time for work and time for life? A five day trip leaves a person gone from home 100 hours.

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PS. Open-ended post on purpose.

Stuff does this really bad thing to us

grandfather clocks
from this downtown New Orleans French Quarter hotel lobby… upstairs to…
room with a view
from this hotel conference room window…
living day to day
street people carrying with them what they own (most likely)

Stuff does this really bad thing to us. It weighs us down. It inhibits us from living in the moment. We are too busy worrying about all the things we need to clean, store, use, collect, give away, donate, move, and/or potentially use (which is literally never going to happen).

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