When we are starting a business, we often have more time than we do money. However, time and money are limited, and there are often competing with each other. Like many aspects of our lives, we try to balance both, but we tend to be hanging on as the pendulum swings back and forth. In the Broadway musical Rent,...
Continue readingTherapist Practice in a Box Tip #31 Time Vs. Money
When we first start our business we oftentimes have more time than we have money. Starting a business takes a lot of both. However, there are a few things that we can do when we do not have enough clients. We need to use our time to build the foundation of the business. For example, free tasks would include...
Continue readingDon’t Let Limiting Beliefs Kill Your Business
Let’s talk about limiting beliefs and how they can hold you back from a successful business. A limiting belief is any interpretation, thought, a feeling of the world around us that is defined as “holding us back or putting constraints on us as we set to build our business or our life. A limiting belief is often a negative thought that prevents us from growing...
Continue readingTherapist Practice in a Box Tip #30 Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs keep us small, and they create fear and doubt in our mind. There are two types of limiting beliefs ones that are true and those that are not. True limiting beliefs are our physical limitation, for example, most of us will be tall enough or skilled enough to play basketball for the NBA. This is true and...
Continue readingTherapist Practice in a Box Tip #29 Keeping Motivation
Motivation is energy that helps us explore our passion and put effort into our business. The business cycle has been said to be somewhat of a roller coaster with many ups and downs. When we are in the up stages, we need to be writing blogs, networking and getting our business story out into the world. When our business...
Continue readingThe Business Motivational Cycle
Let’s talk about motivation and how to keep it. The motivation is that excitement, energy, and the “I can do anything attitude.” It’s what we need to create our vision. Sometimes at the beginning of a project, this motivation is unbridled, bold, and unorganized. This type of motivation is often uninformed, and we jump in ready for anything. The business cycle can be...
Continue readingTherapist Practice in a Box Tip # 28 Just Get Started
We are never fully ready to start a business or to have a child or to get married or to decide if that first job is right for you. But some how we managed to push on through our fear and anxiety and excitement. We will never know enough there will always be new information to learn. There will...
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We are never 100% ready to complete the big tasks in life like buying a house, having a baby, getting married, or taking that first job. However, along the way, we found just enough courage to take that plunge and “just move forward.” That not to say there was no hesitation, fear or worry there was, and you just...
Continue readingTherapist Practice in a Box Tip #27 Don’t Let Overwhelmed Derail You.
There are a lot of items that need to be done when you are building your private practice. The list at times seems endless and the overwhelmed starts in. This is a normal part of the business cycle and writing down your to-do list is helpful. In this video, I share other organizing techniques to make this a little...
Continue readingDon’t Let Overwhelmed Derail You
There are many tasks that new business owners are required to do, and the list never seems to end. Finding a starting point is hard with this endless list of to-dos. I too felt the overwhelmed and powerless at times. How does one sort out what must be done from what I want to get done? First off, I...
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