Prioritizing self-care for the sake of profits — Imagine a solopreneur or a small business owner with a very small team, who is still the heart and the brain of their company. What should be their priority? Probably, they are responsible for marketing and sales, maybe for part of the operations or admin stuff. What should be their…

This is how Michael Gerber titled his famous book: The E-Myth (entrepreneur’s myth): I will do it all by myself. Nope. If you try to succeed that way, you will burn yourself out. Your business growth will be capped by your own abilities and capabilities. …

Isolation is the worst enemy. Collaboration is a path to success. OK, so how to actually get out of isolation as an entrepreneur? There are four ways to do that, which I practiced myself and saw working. …

Aka collaboration equals entrepreneur’s success — In the first article in the How to Beat an Isolation as a Business Owner Series I explained how isolation turns smart business owners into morons. Today, read about the other side of the coin: success stories of collaboration in business. I have an aesthetic taste of a brick and…

Freelancers, solopreneurs, and business founders face the same enemy, and it is mostly invisible: isolation. “Isolation is the enemy of excellence.” — Aaron Walker You are alone with your thoughts all day long. Even if you have a team, there are some limitations to what you can share with them. …

(when it comes to a book’s page on Amazon) — Amazon can be a quite frustrating platform for self-publishing. There are so many things we, authors, cannot control there; huge things like whether or not they will suddenly shut down your account; or small things like a new negative review appearing at the top of your review feed and discouraging…

(from a certified habit coach who helped hundreds of people with developing habits) — In my practice, I’ve seen what people struggled with the most and what enabled them the most. Creating new habits doesn’t have to be a slog. Here are five easy tips to eliminate the struggle from developing good habits: 1. Make It Tiny. By far, the #1 struggle with developing habits comes from inflated…

Plus hacks and frameworks to put them into use — What does it really take to be successful in business? There is so much noise nowadays. Some claim it’s a brilliant idea, others say it’s about solid business tools, and others say it’s hard work. Some claim it is such a complex matter that it is impossible to tell. I…

In one of my previous articles, I explained how to find a good business coach. This article is complementary to that one. The stuff I share here is a secret coaching sauce unnoticeable for people who aren’t coaches themselves. I’m not covering the obvious points — that a good coach…