The Importance of Setting Expectations with your Remote Staff

Hiring remote workers can be an effective option for solopreneurs looking for support in their business ventures. But if certain things aren’t agreed beforehand, the solution can easily become a problem. Remotes workers can be all kinds of wonderful but they aren’t mind-readers! This is why setting clear expectations from the very beginning is key. …

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FreeeUp Review

Introduction Effective communication Pre-vetted freelancers Fast hiring process A team that understands my concerns and has streamlined hiring processes These are some of the reasons why I’ve ditched Fiverr and Upwork and exclusively hire remote freelancers through FreeeUp. FreeeUp is a freelancing platform that connects over 4,000 businesses to the “top 1%” of remote workers. …

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Don’t let Sunk Cost Fallacy sink your business

Being an entrepreneur is a risky business. By definition, entrepreneurs take on financial risk in the hope of profit. Success or failure is dependent on decisions made, decisions which should be based on facts, figures, intelligence, and intuition. But so many entrepreneurs base their decisions on sunk costs, believing that past costs matter to future …

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Quitting is essential to business success

If you were to ask a room full of entrepreneurs, “What’s the key trait of successful entrepreneurs?” Among the common responses of passion, creativity, and competitiveness, you’ll also hear a number of variations of determination and resilience. That ability to just ‘keep going’ no matter what, is seen as a positive, must-have quality for success. …

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Why a Weekly Review is the Key to Stress-Free Productivity

In the ever-changing world of modern business, it comes as no surprise that more and more entrepreneurs – especially solopreneurs – fall into the trap of becoming reactive instead of proactive leaders. This results in lost focus and failure to keep track of your goals. Before you know it, you’re forgetting important appointments or showing …

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Is Your Fear Of Not Enough Holding You Back?

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Why Work-Life Balance Isn’t Working and What to Do Instead

We wear many hats: parent, spouse, child, friend, manager, employee, side hustler, entrepreneur. We’d love to have enough time to be all these and sneak in enough time to take care of ourselves too. But let’s get real. More often than not, we can’t figure out how to put everything and everyone in our calendar. …

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Don’t Eat That Frog, Eat An Elephant Instead

Brian Tracy, the author of the productivity-boosting book “Eat That Frog,” teaches his lesson points from a saying that is frequently credited to Mark Twain: “Eat a Live Frog Every Morning, and Nothing Worse Will Happen to You the Rest of the Day.” Luckily for entrepreneurs everywhere, this advice is a metaphor; you don’t really …

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Going on a Media Diet:  Cutting the Cords and Distraction

If you think you don’t have enough time for a side business or a hobby, this article is for you. In this article, I’ll cover one of the main strategies I used when I started Habitgrowth as a side business. When I first read about this strategy in The 4-hour Work Week, the mega-best-seller written by …

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Entrepreneurial Burnout: Are You at Risk?

Burnout is not typically a word people would associate with work-from-home entrepreneurs.  From the outside looking in, entrepreneurs have it all together; they have risen above all the stressors of working for a large, impersonal company that looks at them as a replaceable resource rather than a valued employee.  The truth is a little bleaker; …

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Does Decision Fatigue Make You Running On Empty?

Earlier this morning, you were a powerhouse of effective decision making, amazing productivity, boundless energy, and motivation.  It’s after four in the afternoon now, and you just had a small, but still quite impressive, nervous breakdown when someone asked you what you wanted in your coffee.  You have reached decision fatigue; without consciously being aware …

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5 Simple Steps to Start Delegating Work to a Virtual Assistant

Making big, critical decisions is part of running and growing a business.  There are times when you have to take the more uncomfortable and difficult route for you to see progress. One of these times is when you start delegating work to other people.   Let’s face it, entrusting tasks to virtual assistants, for example, …

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How to Use Parkinson’s Law to Boost Your Productivity

Do you tend to postpone tasks until the last minute? Do you have a hard time meeting deadlines? If your to-do list never seems to get any shorter, consider making some changes to your routine. A good start would be to set new limits, constraints, and deadlines into your life. It might seem counterintuitive, but …

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How To Improve Your Productivity With Task Batching

When you first started your online business, you had visions of sailing through your day, sipping coffee in your favorite sweatpants.  Your children, if you have them, would remain blissfully quiet in the next room, working out solutions for world peace.  Birds would be chirping outside of your office window, and your cat would be …

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Discover How Mindfulness Can Boost Your Productivity

Mindfulness meditation has emerged as one of the best ways to relax and keep stress at bay. This ancient practice has made its way in our western culture, gaining followers from all over the world. In fact, over 18 million Americans use meditation to unwind after a long day, connect with their inner selves, or …

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How to Use the 80/20 Rule to Grow Your Business

What if there was a proven way to boost your productivity and revenue? Imagine getting better results in less time and no more wasted time and useless activities that lead nowhere. If that’s what you want, you should definitely start implementing the 80/20 rule. This concept is fundamental to every entrepreneur – and every other …

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Paralysis by Analysis or Why Even the Brightest People Are Unsuccessful

We all know someone who’s never happy and fails at everything they do. Yet surprisingly, some of them are super smart. They’re good at math, have a rich vocabulary, or can do things most people are not capable of. So why do these people fail? Why are they unable to find and keep a job, …

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Is the Shiny Object Syndrome Keeping You from Reaching Your Goals?

Do you always get excited about new projects? Does your heart start to beat faster whenever new business ideas pop up to your mind? About 543,000 new businesses get started every single month. Yet, only half survive five years or more, and a third don’t pass the two-year mark. Shiny new technologies, such as machine …

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