Motivation
Interior Design Burnout: 5 Big Ass Causes to Avoid Burnout & How to Identify Them and to Heal from It
Interior design burnout is a real thing. And in case you’ve been fortunate enough to escape it so far, here are the five primary big ass business challenges that cause burnout. My goal is to help you identify these inside your design practice […]
Getting Organized: Are You a Sample Hoarder?
Do you struggle getting organized? If you do, you’re not alone. I’ve worked with many clients who struggled staying organized. I’ll never forget visiting a client for the second time, years ago. It had been six months since our first visit and at the time I’d reviewed all of her samples and provided guidance and…
How to Be a Successful Interior Designer
Do you know what it takes to be a successful interior designer? Being a successful interior designer requires you to maximize your revenues from every project. But how does someone do this? The most effective way to maximize your revenues is to deliver more of what your clients want in less time. Because time is…
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…
5 Extremely Exciting Ways You’ll Grow Your Impact with More Income
Are you one of those talented professional service providers who gives yourself and your gifts away because you love what you do so very much that you’d do it for free? Are you struggling with the delusion that everyone deserves your help and that you’ll make the world a better place by accepting less compensation…
Overcome Your Fears and Find Your Freedom to Flourish
When you were a kid, do you remember being scared of the dark? Do you remember needing a night light or asking to keep the door to your bedroom open so the hall light would help keep the dark monsters away? In my case, it was the clothes monster. My sister and I shared bunk…
How to Be Happy in Business (and How It Delivers Success)
A friend of mine, Tamara is one of those truly rare individuals who has sorted out how to create a life and make a living out of things that make her happy. In fact, when something stops being fun and stops making her happy, she stops doing it and moves on to something else. She…
Smart Solutions: Finding Happiness When You Are in a Funk
“It feels like I’m stuck in a tunnel and can’t see the light,” that’s what I heard from a friend Thursday night when I found myself at one of my favorite Italian restaurants. It was after 9pm when I stopped in intending to grab a salad and sip on their homemade limoncello (I have a…
Smart Solutions: 5 Simple Secrets to Being Whole and Happy in Your Business
I am embarrassed to confess that I have a multiple personality disorder. I didn’t realize it until I went searching for an introduction for an upcoming event and found no less than 36 different introductions on file over the past decade. OMG, I am one person, not 36. Even if I’d updated annually with new…