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Grow your business with flow!
Growing a business can be confusing and overwhelming. There is so much advice out there that we want to try it all leading to running in circles and exhausting ourselves.
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Cordes cuts through the noise each week to highlight how you can grow a business that will bring you the freedom and flexibility you started your business for.
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Boost Your Brainpower and Business Success: Strength training benefits for business owners
Discover the transformative power of strength training for women entrepreneurs—boosting brainpower, reducing stress, and achieving success!
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Plan your ideal week: A small business success schedule
Design your ideal week for small business success—less stress, more productivity, and work-life balance. Discover how!
4 min read


Unlocking Flow: The Key to Small Business Productivity
🌟 Achieve more with less stress in your business by adapting flow. Read to find strategies for you.
5 min read


Prevent Small Business Burnout: Embrace Learning
Are you a small business owner feeling overwhelmed and on the edge? Did you know that you can avoid burnout by dedicating time to...
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Dangers of Microstress: What is Microstress, and Why is it Dangerous for Community Leaders?
Microstresses can take a toll on community leaders' mental and physical health. Learn strategies you can take to avoid these pitfalls.
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What Every Leader Needs to know about Human Skills
Learn how to reach your potential by becoming a better human.
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How to Implement Effective Strategies for Burnout Prevention in the Workplace
Increase retention by using these strategies to prevent burnout.
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Why do leaders need to understand burnout?
Learn to recognize and prevent burnout by focusing on your humans before your KPIs.
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Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Mission-Driven Leaders
What do these three have in common? A lot! Chances are, if you serve in an organization with a social-impact mission, you have some...
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How time management skills can be the most powerful step to prevent burnout
One of the primary causes of burnout is time scarcity. Use these time management strategies to take control of your time.
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Anxiety is a Habit, and Habits can be Broken
Just to be clear, I am not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but I have talked to plenty and read many of the books (even excerpts of the...
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America is not well, and the prescription is to prioritize well-being at work
This topic has become quite personal to me in the last two years as I have had 2 children suffering from suicidal ideation (thinking...
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Write down everything you do
(and learn to spend more time doing what is important and fun!) My sister in law recently told me that she used to be able to remember...
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Stop working so much, and start a hobby!
The human brain can only focus for a max of 4-5 hours a day. Before the industrial revolution, work took a much smaller focus of people's...
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You want to be more productive? Try doing nothing.
The Japanese call it Boketto or 'gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking about anything specific'. The Italians call it Dolce...
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The Power of Trying New Things: Boost Happiness and Productivity
Movement releases dopamine in our brains which is the hormone connected with extreme pleasure
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 26
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, give a 20 second hug! Why hug? A 20-second hug reduces the harmful effects of stress,...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 17
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, put your hand on your heart! Why put your hand on your heart? Warm, safe touch anywhere...
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Happiness Happens Challenge Day 12
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, dance! Why put on the dance moves? when participants danced, happy chemicals called...
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Declutter: Happiness Happens Challenge Day 5
#HappinessHappensMonth For today's challenge, clear your workspace! Why clear your workspace? Clutter can increase stress levels, make it...
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