When you are looking to level up your business, there are many lean strategies that can help you.  One of my favorites is the concept of "stop starting, and start finishing".

In our last post, we explored how to identify achieve sales goals for businesses with a physical product.  This post is for all of you with service based businesses or those with digital products such as e-courses and workshops.

Let's start by recapping a couple core concepts:

The best way to hit your sales goals is to work backwards.  This is true no matter what type of business...

Are you focused on the right kind of change in your business?

If you want to keep growing, change is required. But one of the mistakes I often see people make? And one that I repeatedly made myself when first starting my businesses is…

Making big revolutionary changes too often or too fast, especially when evolutionary change is what is needed instead.

Not letting things run for long...

As a creative, one of the most important things you can create is SPACE.

Because we love to create, and it is often our zone of genius, it fuels us, motivates us, keeps us inspired, we create, create, create. But that can also lead to too much.

Too much work, too much overwhelm, too much "stuff" - physical, digital, and mental.

Which eventually leads to losing our creative spark. When you find...

There is an obsession and romanticism with hustling and working harder and I call bullshit on it!

It isn’t about working harder, doing more, or having to feel like you are hustling every damn day.

It’s about working SMARTER.

Focusing on your highest PRIORITIES.

Doing less things but BETTER.

Being FOCUSED.

Keeping things SIMPLE.

Actually FINISHING something instead of just being...

Welcome to Part 2 of the Sales Goals for Product Based Businesses.  In Part 1, we looked at how to identify your sales goals for product based businesses.  Goals that are realistic and attainable. In this post, we will explore how to consistently achieve, and eventually surpass, your sales goals.

Okay, so now that you know how many products you need to sell to hit your sales...

If you are struggling to identify realistic sales goals or to achieve the sales goals that you set, then this post series is for you!  It is the 1st of a multi-post series on how to identify and achieve your sales goals for product based businesses.

I have seen so many business owners use a "wishful thinking" approach to sales.  They arbitrarily set sales goals based on what they...

Ever have one of those days where you feel completely stuck in your business?  Where you feel unmotivated, unfocused, or can't seem to find the creativity you need to make progress?  Maybe you're having one those days right now?

We've all been there!  The good news is that you can get unblocked.  And sometimes end up even more focused, motivated, and inspired...

Time = money.  And I guarantee there is hidden time and money within your current business in the form of waste.

Also known as muda, waste is the killer of productivity and efficiency.  There are many forms of waste.   For this post, we are going to focus on wasted time, which in turn results in wasted money.

• How much time do you and your team spend searching for...

Not a big fan of new year's resolutions?  Same here!  So ditch the resolutions and instead choose a word for the year.  A word, or phrase, that acts as a guide for the actions you take throughout the year in order to achieve your goals for your business and your life.  Consider it your mantra.

Learn when and how to choose your word for the year, what to do if a single...