Five Things Almost Done Is Nothing Done
Cap the number of projects you have open at once, and finish the one closest to done before you touch anything new. Look at your desk, your desktop, and your notes app. Count the things that are somewhere between started and finished. The proposal that’s eighty...
The Client in Your Head Isn’t Paying Rent
Track which clients you think about when you’re not working on them, compare that to what they pay you, and fix the accounts where the two numbers don’t match. Every solo operator has one. The client whose email you open with a small flinch. The one whose...
Achieving Wellness Goals Without Going Off Track Financially
It can be tricky to eat healthy while attempting to tighten your budget. However, with a little extra effort and planning, your pocketbook doesn’t have to suffer extensively just to keep moving toward your health and wellness goals. Here are a few financially smart...
The Podcasting Platform That Became Twitter
Long before Twitter existed, its founders were running a different company entirely — a podcasting platform called Odeo, built on the bet that podcasting was about to become mainstream. The bet had reasonably good timing until it didn’t. Shortly after Odeo...
How to Tell If You’re About to Quit Too Early
Not every struggling business is one pivot away from a turnaround story. Plenty of businesses fail because the underlying idea genuinely doesn’t work, and continuing to push isn’t wisdom — it’s just delay. The harder question, and the one worth...
Shopify Started as a Failed Snowboard Store
Some of the most recognizable companies in tech exist because a founder’s original business idea simply didn’t work — and Shopify is one of the clearer examples of a pivot that turned a frustration into a much bigger company than the one it replaced. In...
Walking Meetings: A Small Change With a Real Effect on Clarity
Most one-on-one conversations happen the same way by default — two people, seated, facing a screen or each other, indoors. It’s such a standard setup that it rarely gets questioned. A small, well-documented change to that default — walking during certain kinds...
The Difference Between Stress and Overwhelm
The words get used interchangeably, but stress and overwhelm are functionally different states, and treating them the same way tends to make the wrong one worse. Stress, in a healthy dose, is activating — it sharpens focus, adds urgency, and can genuinely improve...
Why Your Calendar Might Be Making You Anxious
Most people treat a full calendar as a sign of importance — proof that the business is in demand, that things are moving. Less often discussed is what a back-to-back calendar actually does to the nervous system over the course of a normal week, regardless of how...
Entrepreneur Magazine
- Labor Day Was Built So You Can Rest. So Why Do You Feel Like You Can’t? September 5, 2026The holiday exists. The permission to actually stop does not. And for the people running hardest, a long weekend does not feel like rest.
- Many Colleges Are Closing — A Deeper Enrollment Crisis May Be Ahead September 4, 2026College closures are no longer isolated failures but signs of a deeper enrollment and financial crisis. As student numbers decline, rising costs, debt, and unsustainable operating models are putting more institutions at risk. The bigger challenge may be ahead: colleges must do more to attract, engage, and retain every prospective student.
- I Left a Secure Career to Become an Entrepreneur — and I Wasn’t Nearly as Ready as I Thought September 4, 2026Thinking about quitting your job for entrepreneurship? These three tests reveal if you're actually prepared.