Be Your Own Best Boss: How to manage yourself when you're the CEO

As an entrepreneur, specifically a solopreneur, you’ll have to constantly have your own back. Sure, there is tremendous freedom, but the tradeoff is having to do it alone. Allison Krawiec-Thayer of PoppyLead shares with us her top tips for how to Be Your Own Best Boss, i.e. how to manage yourself when you’re the one in charge…

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Using self-awareness to prioritize and bring your best ideas to life

For a small business owner, aligning ideas with business plans and budgets is critical. But aligning opportunities with personal values and beliefs also is a key to success. As we put our all into building our businesses, careers and pursuing professional goals – we may begin to become disconnected from what is personally important to us beyond just the metrics of success.

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If You Want Something Done, Give it to a Busy Person?

They say that if you want something to get done, give it to a busy person.

Have you found this to be true? Why is it that when we have more on our plate, we tend to be better at managing our time than when we have an entire day free? You would think that more time equals more done, but in many cases the opposite is true.

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