#5 Not all small business coaches are the same (but in a good way) — A business coach can help you grow and evolve your small business, so that you can move closer to the life and success you’d like to experience. A great coach can help you focus on your strengths while identifying areas in your business that could be shifted to see progress. …

“Pushing through” is not a sustainable productivity strategy for small business owners. — The tricky part with productivity, or not being productive, is that we often think that we just don’t have enough willpower to do the things. We think we need to push harder. But actually, that’s probably not the right solution. Feeling like you have to push yourself a ton (but…

Introducing: The Productivity Ecosystem — When we don’t feel productive and can’t bring ourselves to do the things that we’ve set out to do, instead of being hard on ourselves and wondering what’s wrong with us, we can change our perspective and ask ourselves “What can I do to support my productivity today, or going…

Why it’s hard to focus on important (not urgent) tasks in your business. — Lots of time management experts say that you should focus on tasks that are important but not urgent, because that’s the stuff that helps you make progress in your small business. But they rarely address why those types of tasks are challenging to follow through on to begin with —…

Focus on these five activities if you want to make progress in your business without overwhelm and hustle. — Want to grow your solo business while reducing overwhelm, overwork, and the risk of burnout? The most important shift you can make is to operate in a way that allows you to spend more time on tasks and activities that make the biggest impact — and reduce the rest. These…

Cookie-cutter systems don’t work for most of us, but you can still follow some guidelines as you plan your week. Because everyone is different and has different circumstances, we all need personalized solutions to our time and task management. We shouldn’t expect every cookie-cutter system to work for us. There…

A lesson learned on the steep hills of San Francisco. In the winter of 2019, I photographed a family’s day in San Francisco. …

There’s no need to live only for your work. Part of what I suspect makes Finns some of the happiest people in the world is that as a whole, we tend to put as much emphasis (if not more!) on our free time as we do on our work. I…

2. Question what’s on your to-do list — When I was overwhelmed and always rushing, I couldn’t really see what was on the other side of overwhelm — all I cared about was solving the issue I was having with too much to do. These are some of the habits that I continuously try to get better at…