” With Lisa’s guidance, I was able to get very clear on my goals, understand how they fit with my values, and determine what I need to do to reach them.” Heather Frechette-Crowley – Root Marketing
Doing vs. Not Doing
Doing VS. Not Doing. Not doing something requires constant self-control. When you want to change a behavior or habit, set and focus on a positively framed intention, NOT a negatively framed intention. Often, when we’re working on changing...
The Invisible Line That Shapes Your Life
Your life is being shaped by what you’re saying “YES” to and what you are saying “NO” to. With each “YES” and “NO,” you are ‘setting in’ the invisible line of boundaries that shape your choices, opportunities,...
One Small Habit That Will Improve Your Communication
Today we’re continuing on the conversation of habits. The habit I’m highlighting today is the habit of communication, the way we listen. How we participate and listen in a conversation impacts how the other person shows up, the information they share with us, as well...
How to Minimize Distractions
I'm continuing my conversation of habits because they're what help us create the success that we want in life, personal as well as professional. One of the things I find that gets in the way of the success we're working so...
How To Be More Consistent With Your Habits
Many people value the present more than they value the future; an instant reward often gets in the way. That reward is only a possibility in the future; it's a sure thing at the moment. Let's use, for example, having a glass of wine at the...
Navigating Distractions & Improving Productivity
Navigating Distractions & Improving Productivity Do you struggle with creating an environment that supports your productivity? What do you need to navigate those internal, as well as external distractions that keep you from doing the...
How Shoulding Gets in the Way of Business Strategy
Shoulding & Business Strategy Strategy. It’s how we intentionally achieve what we desire, with more clarity and less effort. Shoulding. Let’s admit, shoulding all over ourselves as we move towards what we desire is not only NOT working, it creates roadblocks and...
Boundaries, Balance, & Business Bliss
Boundaries, Balance, & Business Bliss “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." -Victor Frankl ~~~ Boundaries are the foundation, the underpinning, to the...
Breaking Plates & Establishing Priorities
Breaking Plates & Establishing Priorities “Fitting in is the greatest barrier to belonging.” – Brene Brown Brene Brown's quote jolted me awake as I was leisurely sipping my coffee and enjoying my morning reading a few weeks ago. It stopped me mid slurp and...
Taking An Active Role In Our Happiness & Fulfillment
Joy Happiness Fulfillment As business owners, we’re often seeking more of each (and money as well, but that tends to be a result of creating a life full of joy, happiness, and fulfillment, not the cause). In last week's blog, I shared studies on the importance of...
Work-Life Balance: Vision Required
Work-Life Balance: Vision Required 1,800,000,000 That's the number of results that come up when I Googled Work-Life Balance. Dayyy-yum. Clearly, A LOT of people are working on their Work-Life Balance. How about you? Have you ever searched Google for some...
The Value Of knowing Your Values
Knowing Your Values As Oscar Hammerstein II wrote in the musical South Pacific: “You got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” In my last blog, I shared three tips to help you with your priority management so that you can...
Struggle with Time Management? Do This.
Time Management As a business strategist, one of the struggles I hear most often is the topic of time management. Has this statement ever rolled off your lips? "I need to be better at time management." Here's the thing, time management isn't the issue. It's your...
Creating a High-Performance Team
Creating a High-Performance Team If you lead a team, are a part of a team, or want to increase your personal performance, here are the 5-main areas I’ve learned as a 27-year, five-time business owner that support us in working collaboratively, finding our...
How to say No with Confidence and Ease
How to say No with Confidence and Ease A simple tip to master your time management so you can achieve your goals with more confidence and less overwhelm.
Mastering The Art of Powerful Communication
Mastering The Art of Powerful Communication If you’re in a position of leadership- whether owning your own business, leading a team, interacting with clients…or talking with you kids, this 1 & 1/2 minute video will help your...
Growing my Business 10X
Growing my Business 10X How I grew my business ten fold.
Removing Yourself From the Dance
Removing Yourself From the Dance When we have an expectation of how someone ‘should’ react or behave, it takes control of us and we lose control of the situation.
Communication, Expectations, and Letting Go
Communication, Expectations, and Letting Go 3 tips for communicating effectively, and letting go of your expectation of how the other person should, or needs, to react
Using a CRM to Quantify and Monetize Your Efforts
Using a CRM to Quantify and Monetize Your Efforts If we’re not quantifying our efforts in business, it’s difficult to be objective about what’s working in our business and moving us closer to our goals, or what’s not and simply keeping us...
Negotiating with Confidence
Negotiating with Confidence As an entrepreneur or business owner, we’re negotiating for more than we realized…and the first negotiation always starts with ourselves.
Riverbanks and Allowing Alignment to Flow…
Alignment Invites Flow I recently spent some time in Maine celebrating the 35th anniversary of my family’s bakery and restaurant. Such a great time and what an amazing turnout- over 250 people came to celebrate with us! It was an honor to listen to everyone tell...
Give the Gift of Transparency
Give the Gift of Transparency Communication is often an area where we trip up in business because it can feel uncomfortable to set structures and boundaries in place letting people know what our non-negotiables are.
You Can’t Keep One Foot on Shore and One on the Boat
You Can’t Keep One Foot on Shore and One on the Boat In order to achieve the success we want, we need to be willing to burn the boat.
Stress-Less Holiday Season
Do you get stressed out about managing your time and getting everything done (work-wise and life-wise) during the busy holiday season? I know I have over the years. Stress is like a sponge (especially during the holidays) - it sucks the joy out of our day … if you...
Boundaries Without Apology
Boundaries Without Apology Boundaries. Everyone has their own opinion, experience, take on them. A boundary is not a bad thing. It’s not evil. Having healthy boundaries doesn’t make us aggressive. Boundaries don’t make us rigid or unapproachable. I wrote about...
Boundaries Without Apology
Boundaries Without Apology We often avoid and don’t maintain boundaries because we don’t fully understand what they are or how to use them.
How Hiring a Team Can Improve Your Bottom Line
Hiring a first team member or expanding your team can bring a boost to your revenue and help you make more money ongoing. But the decision to hire takes time and processing. In my work as a business strategist, I help entrepreneurs examine what’s working and what...
Slowing Down So That You Can Gain Momentum
Too busy working IN your business to slow down and work ON it? Hell, that's like flying down the highway at mock speed with no time to stop for gas. Doesn't sound very productive when I put it that way, does it? I know, I know, it goes completely against the grain of...
Are YOU Earning Your Busy Merit Badge?
Many of the entrepreneurs I know would give a resounding “yes” to that question! Maybe you would too. By the end of this blog post you might not feel so strongly about it, though. My private one-on-one work with clients always begins with getting them in touch with...
Celebrating Success Invites More Of It
Do you set goals for yourself, work your tail off, push through the struggle, then simply give yourself a little nod (if that) when you’ve hit your target instead of celebrating your success? In talking with women, I’m hearing this is an all too common theme. We set...
Motivational Mindset to Move from Simple to Done
Without mindset and compassion, even simple tasks never seem to get done, both in life and in business. How fascinating is it when we can know exactly what to do and yet, it remains undone. We know that to lose weight we need to burn more calories than we consume, yet...
Business Boundaries to Protect What Matters
Boundaries. They’re critical in business and in life. Why is it when we talk about setting and having healthy boundaries it makes people so uncomfortable … as if boundaries are a bad thing that only abrasive and self-centered people allow themselves to have? Having...
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