Chicago Steak Company

Treat regular contact with other people who do what you do as operating infrastructure, not a social nicety, and schedule it the way you'd schedule anything else the business depends on. When you left the workplace, you left some things gladly: the meetings, the...

Build an external stop signal into your day, because the one thing a solo operator never gets is someone else deciding that work is over. Ask an employee when their workday ends and they'll tell you a time. Ask a solo operator and you'll get a pause. There's no office...

Decide now, while you're healthy, exactly what happens to your business on a day you can't work, so that being sick never turns into a business decision. Every employed person gets sick days. Not because their employer is generous, but because someone figured out a...