so i am curious, Out of the people here how many of you have figure out a trick or tip you want to share? it can be on software, around the house, for your ride etc.

I wonder if there are events I'm missing out on just because I'm looking on Eventbrite and Meetup.com.

Thank you to those of you that have already joined, we're just getting started - obvioiusly - but our large real life community will be joining soon. Running a small business can feel isolated and detached but it doesn't have to be - we're all in it together and I hope you will see a flurry of new members in the next few days to remind us all that it's never just you or just me out here on our own. #goteam

I'm always curious to learn about hobbies and side skills that great business leaders have. Have you ever noticed? Successful people are NOT solely focused just on their business - maybe in the early days to get it going, and I'm not against that fresh sheen of ambition when you're building something. But I'm older now - hopefully a little wiser too - and I find that I want to run the business, but I don't want it to run me. I stopped writing music and books when I started my business. Not consciously, I just got consumed by work and stopped "playing". I'm making a conscious decision not to do that anymore. I'm writing songs again. I'm picking up my old hobbies and some new ones. I'm blocking time in my schedule. We have a rule in our family-run business, we don't take outside meetings on Mondays unless it is an unbelievably huge opportunity. Of course there is an exception - but in general, Mondays are called Shmonday in our business. We ease back in from the weekend (as if we weren't working all weekend!) and Shmonday has become almost sacred in that we reset, reconnect to the parts of the work that we love and we think. We mostly think on Mondays. We sleep in a little later, we sip an extra cup of coffe, we have no hurry or bustle and we're getting pretty good at not letting the external Mondays come in thru the door too. I cherish Shmondays and now that is also the day I work on my hobbies and write songs. What else do you do, outside of your work, for fun, to have a life? Share it!