Chicago Steak Company

THE PRACTICE Pay yourself a fixed amount on a fixed schedule from the business account, no matter how the month went, and let the business absorb the ups and downs instead of you. One month, three clients pay at once and there's more in the account than you've ever...

THE PRACTICE When the dread shows up before the week starts, write down exactly what it's about, then deal with that one thing instead of the whole week. Plenty of people who work for themselves assumed the Sunday-night feeling would go away once they left their job....

THE PRACTICE Create a short, fixed routine that opens and closes your workday, so your head knows when work starts and when it's over. Almost nobody misses commuting. The traffic, the train delays, the forty minutes each way that you'll never get back. When people...