Mindset
33 Wretched Ways Self Sabotage is Wrecking Your Design Success
Self sabotage is an ugly monster that all of us wrestle with from HGTV famous Joanna Gaines to seasoned superstar Candace Olson, the designer just launching and one who’s been in business for decades. Self sabotage doesn’t play favorites. The list of self sabotage here is going to make you feel both very bad and…
Find Your Joy and You Won’t Need Strategy
Find your joy is an unusual topic for me here, usually I’m touting the best strategies, proven tactics, helpful tools to grow your design practice. Have I lost my mind? Am I indulging in a temporary zen moment? No, this is for real. In fact, moving forward, I’m going to be infusing my posts with…
Change Your Words: The 4-Letter Word Killing Your Confidence
How you describe and refer to yourself inside your design practice says a lot about the level of your confidence. Change your words and you can up level your business, serve a higher class of clientele, and enjoy increased success. It’s simple to do, and not easy or everyone would do it. As I was…
5 Lame Excuses Stopping Interior Design Success
This is going to sound harsh. You’ve been lying to yourself. It’s ugly and true. Here are five lame excuses stopping interior design success for you. Actually, there are probably a lot more excuses, I’m just going to dish up the really obvious ones that I hear from my design coaching clients regularly. (At least…
Purposeful Priorities Learned from Loss
Do you ever find that you lose track of your most purposeful priorities in the crush of day to day operations? As I headed up to Highlands over Labor Day I was thinking of one of my neighbors who had just lost one of their pets. They have a pair of Wheaton terriers, Zooey and…
What is Being Cheap in Business Costing You?
Being cheap in business is one of the fastest ways to attract cheap clients. These are the kind of clients that are never satisfied and will constantly demand more for less. Your money values are what attract your clients, when you are being cheap in business, you will attract like minded clients. Here’s an example.…
Forget Your Weaknesses: Focus on Your Strengths
One of the biggest keys to success is to focus on your strengths and let your weaknesses go. This means that you’ve got to know clearly (as in slap your face silly), what you are NOT any good at. And then making sure you either never do it or do very little of it. (Ideally…
Entrepreneurial Freedom: 26 Freedoms You Deserve
Owning your own business, being your own boss, and claiming the responsibilities as CEO of your own company can be liberating or it can be a trap. The list here is a reminder of what to keep yourself free of and what to give yourself the freedom to do, be, and have. Think of these…
Power Words to Grow Your Business: How to Get Definitely Profitable
Your thoughts dictate your words, your words dictate your actions. You cannot grow your business without using powerful words. The words you choose on a moment to moment, day to day, and week to week basis will predict your fortune or your failure. You have a choice when you pay attention to your words. You…