4. Doing Your CEO Job

It’s July and so because I’m in the midst of my annual 24/7 obsession with the Tour de France — my favorite time of year for REAL, I’ve been thinking a [...]

Do you have rules in your business? The good news/bad news is that even if you haven’t actually articulated those rules, written them down, they’re still [...]

I’ve got four questions written on a post-it in my planner, a post-it that I move from day to day, so that the questions are always in front of my eyes. So that I make time to consider them, [...]

One of the things we do at Do Your Thing as a trusted partner to our clients is look for ways to save their precious time for the tasks that have the greatest [...]

An email came in from an on-again, off-again small business client, asking a common “quick question.” This is someone I work with on an as-needed basis, which [...]

A client was reporting in on a new program they’d just offered for the first time and were about to offer again. In that interim period between the first time [...]

One of my favorite treats — something I do for me when I’ve had a full day of work and need to rest my mind a bit, switch gears — is The Great [...]

Are you feeling bad that you’re avoiding looking at the reports your numbers-person or numbers-software generates? Are you dreading how these reports make you [...]

I was raised by someone who walks really fast. Fast was good, fast was smart, fast was better. If you were asked for something — clean the kitchen, get me [...]

Something I think about a lot, as I work with small business owners and as I run my own small business, is that sneaky ole magical [...]