Personal Development
For the owner as a person, not only as an operator: burnout, boundaries, relationships, and what the long-run research says adds up to a life worth having.
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Here’s a question worth asking yourself if retirement is anywhere on your horizon. If your business…

For much of my life, I believed freedom was the goal. Like many people, I imagined that if I had…

When was the last time you told someone the whole truth about how the business is really doing? Not…
Sleep tracking has turned rest into something people keep score on. Rings, watches and bedside…

We often imagine that if we could solve enough problems, we would finally arrive at peace.

A few weeks ago, I published an essay called The Freedom to Ask Why. It was a reflection on a…

I have been asking “why” for as long as I can remember.

Most owners assume they'd know if they were burned out. In practice, the signal is easy to miss,…

Owning a business that operates from home erases a boundary employees still have by default: the…

Most people, asked what would make them happier, reach for some version of more: more money, more…

Fulfillment is easy to treat as a single feeling, the sense that life is going well, but the…