You might not recognize this yet, but as a business owner, you have one specific freedom that puts you on a par with Gods (or demigods at best). It’s not the power to design your own schedule or control your fees. It’s more intangible than that. Have you guessed what it is yet? It...
In his story The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol talks about the civil servant and scribe Akaky Akakievich “who saw nothing but his own neat lines, written out in an even hand, and only if a horse muzzle, appearing from goodness knows where, came to his shoulder, and blew a gale on his cheek from his...
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” ~Gustave Flaubert Human beings love their comfort. We find lethargic content in doing the same things and doing them the same way for a long time. Until a forced change arrives. Nobody would actually go looking...