The main reason why New Year’s resolutions don’t work is because you might know WHAT you want, but most of the time not have it very clear WHY you want it. We trick ourselves in thinking that we need to wait for the 1st of January or first Monday of the month to go after something we really want.

Instead, what we want to present in these 2 Bonus episodes, is an alternative to the resolutions, a proven method that can be applied in business but also in your personal life.

Please listen here to the first Bonus Episode Part 1: Alternatives to New Year’s resolutions

The main reason why New Year’s resolutions don’t work is because you might know WHAT you want, but most of the time not have it very clear WHY you want it. We trick ourselves in thinking that we need to wait for the 1st of January or first Monday of the month to go after something we really want.

Instead, what we want to present in these 2 Bonus episodes, is an alternative to the resolutions, a proven method that can be applied in business but also in your personal life.

In today’s bonus episode we want to have an imagination exercise about the year that just ended. Wanna join the game?

The thrill of wishing and receiving presents for Christmas does certainly diminish with age, because we know there is no magical old man in a red suit, we know where presents come from. But thinking back to the childhood, one can understand the magic behind having a goal, a toy above all toys, that one thing that we thought we wanted more than anything in the world. How thrilling was the idea of receiving the very thing, the anticipation, the expectation and certainty that we will get it?

Whatever happened to that almost blind faith we had? Why are we not able now to instinctively just believe in ourselves that we are our own Santa?

In today’s episode we would like to take you on a journey of imagination and desire and let’s write to our Inner Santa and have the confidence to wish for anything we want .

Working with so many entrepreneurs, sometimes it comes easy to find the right topics to share in the podcast.

As the word goes, every story is a good story if we can learn something from it. And as we have the custom here, we approach those ideas that can resonate with the business community, from a more personal and sometimes vulnerable angle. This end of the year has its challenges like any other but one common theme we keep hearing is how difficult it is for business owners to inspire and motivate their teams during these last few months of 2021.

This episode offers some tips and ideas on how to keep being an inspiration for those around you, in personal or business life.

What is the reason why we push harder at the end of this year 2021, compared to other years? Talking with our community of international entrepreneurs or discussing with coaching clients, we come to the realisation that the answers are not so straight forward as they may seem. But one recurring theme shows up in all the discussions: the approaching deadline of December 31st is an extraordinary wake-up call.

Rushing through tasks, taking on responsibilities that we don’t enjoy, not delegating and the list can god on; these are recipes for extra pressure, procrastination and feelings of not moving forward with the business.

In this episode we approach some ways of removing unnecessary entrepreneurial pressure at the end of 2021.

There is no secret that chasing your dream, your life plan, is at times extremely challenging and exhausting. Entrepreneurs feel this pressure all year long almost and yet it amplifies at the end of each year. Finding the life/work balance is truly important but is not a standard set of techniques that work for everyone, right?

In this episode, we are putting on the table 5 questions that every entrepreneur should take the time to answer for themselves and for the sake of their business, so that they don’t lose the enthusiasm and high energy that fuel them normally. Approach the end of the year pressure in a logical way!

What made this 2021 so stressful and difficult? No doubt, one one hand the Coronavirus implications and its global impact. But once we remove this from the picture, what else has the entrepreneurs on edge about the way this year will end?

There is an intensity just about every aspect in our lives now and as usual, entrepreneurs seem to have an added layer of responsibility and stress in the sense that for many of us, the business has become our very own purpose of existence because of the commitment and fulfilment that it brings us.

Sometimes we forget that IT IS ONLY A BUSINESS.

In this week’s entrepreneurs stories, we are looking at 2 examples of situations when solo-entrepreneurs had to take a step back and decide how much the stress, overworking and pressure was serving them or their business. In there words, just because we over-stress ourselves, that doesn’t mean that what we are afraid of will not happen.

In our previous episode 63 “Why entrepreneurs don’t hire people” we were looking at the reasons why sole-entrepreneurs are so reluctant to hire and we provided a checklist that can be used as a guideline to understand when SHOULD be the moment to start hiring, in any business for that matter.

As the world has evolved and communication has become more digitalised, so has evolved the world of “getting help” and needing additional ‘hands on deck’ for your entrepreneurship journey. The burdens and obligations of an employee contract are made easy by the use of commercial contracts and subcontracting people.

Solo-entrepreneurs need to understand that hiring somebody means they are delegating, they are getting help accomplishing some tasks, they are not looking for a replacement of themselves. This episode is here to shed some light on When and Why hiring is a productive move for the business.

It’s very difficult to delegate the core of your vision, but it wouldn’t be the worse if someone else can cut your invoices while you are working on that vision, right? :)

The human resource is the most valuable in any type of business format. But more so, in entrepreneurship, the founder of the business, the one who had the courage and the drive to invest and implement his idea, is the core of his business. So as the business is growing, so are the demands and the workload. But hiring somebody will change the format and the dynamic of the business. And that may be why sole-entrepreneurs are so reluctant to hire.

In this episode we go over a few reasons why in entrepreneurship we don’t see so many people getting hired.

You can use this checklist for your own business, to understand if you are using some of these limits beliefs to call them, and hinder without knowing the growth of your business.