Retail Benefits

THE PRACTICE Give every finished project a small, fixed ending ritual, because when you work alone, nobody else will notice that something got done. In a company, finishing something is a public event. The launch gets announced in a meeting. Someone brings a cake....

THE PRACTICE Have at least one regular activity where you're a beginner, nothing is being measured, and there's no plan to ever turn it into money. Running a business turns you into a person who evaluates everything. Every hour has a rate. Every idea gets checked for...

THE PRACTICE Pick one week a year as your maintenance week and book every routine appointment into it, the way a company schedules its equipment servicing, so your own upkeep stops depending on remembering. When you had a job, a surprising amount of your health upkeep...