Posted on August 23rd, 2011 by Kayla Knight | Lifestyle, Productivity | No Comments »
Setting goals is so important to running a business, especially one that is solely responsible on one person to help it grow and succeed. Yet, how many goals do you make in a year that go unnoticed, unaccomplished, and that ultimately fizzle out due to lack of motivation or other causes?
Setting goals and striving to achieve them is how we move forward in life and in business. A goal to make $X amount of income next year, or to write 10 guest posts, or to get featured in your favorite design magazine are all noble goals. Creating them helps us to move in the right direction in order to get what we want. It helps us to not remain static in what we’re already doing.
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Posted on August 21st, 2011 by Kayla Knight | Management, Productivity | 5 Comments »
When you’re self employed, you don’t just manage a business. You don’t just manage your time. That’s for employees who have another person breathing down their neck. When nobody’s in charge, except for you, in order to keep a business alive, growing, and the money coming in, the thing you need to manage best is yourself.
The self employed have the most difficult management jobs out there. It’s very different from managing a store (because those managers have bosses who manage them), and its very different than being an employee and being responsible for managing a department, project, or your own time. There’s always someone to report to; there’s always someone to push you, and there’s always someone else to help manage you while you’re managing everything else.
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