200: 🎉 20+ Free Time Permission Slips for Small Business Owners (Part 1)
Hey, hey, Free Timers, we have arrived at episode 200! 🎉 To celebrate, I’m giving you the ultimate permission slip compilation (two in fact). At the end of every episode, I ask our guests to give fellow business owners a permission slip to do something differently or drop something altogether.
This week, you’ll hear 20 of my favorites about doing less, charging more, and working in your zone of genius. Next Friday will be all about mindset, staying in the game, and the spiritual aspects of running a Heart-Based Business.
✨ A few quick notes . . .
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📝 Permission Slips
🎧 123: “Pricing is Branding” — Anti-Time Management with Richie Norton — 📝 Rethink projects with too many steps or obstacles toward creating the lifestyle you want. How can you bake your dream into the process from day one?
🎧 188: Energy Capacity Planning, Pricing, and Finding Resonant Masterminds with Kelli Thompson —📝 Drop anything that drains your energy!
🎧 169: Running a Goal-Free Business with Stephen Shapiro — 📝 Do less and get more. Each day, imagine you only have one hour you can work. How would you spend that hour?
🎧 141: Process, Permission Slips, and Business Pivots with Tara McMullin — 📝 To rebuild your business model from the ground up.
🎧 145: Tips for Training Part-Time Team Members with Kaneisha Grayson — 📝 Keep some of the tasks that you are excellent at and bring money into the business, and let go of the feeling that you’re not acting like “the CEO.”
🎧 091: Quarterly Planning with Charlie Gilkey — 📝 Drop at least one project that does not create cash flow, opportunity, or visibility.
🎧 101: Run Your Business with Exquisite Greatness and Tiny Art Projects with Alexandra Franzen — 📝 Give yourself a raise! If you are excellent at what you do, significantly increase what you charge.
🎧 111: Building a Second Brain with Tiago Forte — 📝 Not to be everywhere on all channels. Pick just one place that best fits your personality and style for your unique artistic expression.
🎧 167: How to Transform Your Approach to Community-Building with Gina Bianchini — 📝 You don’t have to produce a lot of content! Flip the script from producing content to convening human beings towards a common goal.
🎧 181: Be Irreplaceable with My Creative Coach Jay Acunzo — 📝 Focus on resonance before—or even at the expense of—reach. Let go of the idea of adding more people until you have a small group reacting in a big way.
🎧 035: The Long Game with Dorie Clark — 📝 Not to network or connect with people when you don’t feel like it.
🎧 002: Eliminate Email with Cal Newport — 📝 Electronic communication does not have to be a super important part of your work life.
🎧 161: Inbox Taming with Yaro Starek — 📝 To be involved in, not responsible for, your inbox.
🎧 133: Hire People Who Are Better Than You with Terri Trespicio — 📝 Stop taking pride in doing everything yourself. Delight in the fact that you need help and support to do your best work, and you can get it.
🎧 099: How to Find Your Perfect Problem with Jim McKelvey — 📝 Charge people for your time, and bill for your attention.
🎧 107: How to Know When You’ve Gotten Pricing Wrong with Jacquette M. Timmons — 📝 Quote an uncomfortable price. Detach yourself from the outcome by treating it as an exercise; doing this once will make it easier next time.
🎧 143: Exploring Time, Money, and Energy Capacity with Tara McMullin and Charlie Gilkey — 📝 Shift your request evaluation default from, “Do I have time to squeeze this in?” to “Do I have time to do this well?”
🎧 139: Paid Newsletter Secrets and Organizing Knowledge with David Elikwu — 📝 Shut down projects on purpose so you don’t kill them by accident. Be intentional about possibilities you leave open.
🎧 016: IP Licensing with Lee LeFever — 📝 Forget the way things have been done in the past. You don’t need to be a billion-dollar unicorn.
🎧 131: Scaling Joy While Streamlining Business Overhead and Navigating ADHD with Kaneisha Grayson — 📝 Ignore business advice that doesn’t work for you, or that—for whatever reason—you just can’t do. Stop internalizing failures.
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