by asquaredonline | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog, Entrepreneurship
“Duty: a task or action that a person is bound to perform for moral or legal reasons” ~ Collins English Dictionary I’ve been thinking a lot about duty lately. It’s one of those cultural values that many of us respect, for good reason. The word brings to mind a soldier...
by asquaredonline | Aug 18, 2021 | Blog, Leadership, Systems
Like many of you, I started my business because I wanted more freedom. I wanted to take time off on my own terms and flex my schedule around raising small children without a constant sense of tension. To be honest, I thought this new amazing lifestyle would just...
by asquaredonline | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog, Entrepreneurship, Systems
You get to hear from a new voice today! Ean Price Murphy is a bookkeeper and financial coach, and most importantly, she is a huge fan of Profit First. Profit First is a simple reframe for how you think about your money, but it can be a total game-changer. I’ll...
by asquaredonline | Jul 21, 2021 | Blog, Entrepreneurship
I recently read a depressing pair of statistics: 14% of small business owners believe they can completely check out while on vacation. Meanwhile, 54% of American workers feel the same way. (Here’s the study if you want to check it out) When I was working in the...
by asquaredonline | May 26, 2021 | Blog, Entrepreneurship
I’ve recently started going on a crusade against what I call “eureka moment stories.” They sound something like this: “I started out in my garage, and everything was tough. We were living on ramen noodles, and I made every mistake in the book. Then, one day in the...
by asquaredonline | May 12, 2021 | Blog, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
I was listening to a potty training book of all things when the author, Jamie Glowacki, said something that stopped me short. “We don’t like learning – we like having learned,” she said. I’ve always had an idea in my head that learning is supposed to be fun. And...
