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If you’re looking, you can find beauty almost everywhere. I like my surroundings to feel special, cozy and beautiful. I imagine all creative entrepreneurs encounter creative-blocks from time to time. When this happens to me, I look for what we at Adoublem call Inspired WorkSpaces. I change my environment or make my current workspace more…

I have said for years, direct people to your blog, not only to your social media accounts. Today, this is a more common belief, but only a few years ago, many adamantly disagreed. So many people I know ditched the idea of a website, and stuck with only a Facebook page. I’ve had many conversations…

How many times have you heard “this is just the way things are done”, with no one having an idea why this is? Or when you make a positive change to a company and other managers say, “They will never do it that way,” referring to employees. I learned more about this years ago when…

I’ve worked different jobs and lived in different cities, but most often in each of these settings, I say hi (or some sort of acknowledgement) when I pass someone going the other direction. I don’t do this in places like a busy city street, of course – it’s more like down a street if it’s…

Full disclosure, I am a BIG dog lover. I love all animals, though I definitely don’t want some of them in bed with me. Dogs are different. They dig their way deep into our hearts, almost as saying “I am permanent here”. When they die, they break our hearts into a million pieces, feeling like…

I am doing work on this topic and would love your opinion. Think of your local mall – are you more attracted to a giant poster in the window or mannequins? Why? https://poll.fm/10362590

Can you guess what it is?  If not now, maybe you will after I share my experience a few years back. When I worked as a District Manager, I often traveled with the Regional Manager or the VP of Operations to our various stores.  It was natural to greet the store managers and say hello…

If you’re reading this post hoping to learn how to simplify your workflow so you can ADD more work to your day I hope you’ll reconsider. The whole point of simplifying is just that – to simplify. So you have mental space in your day to do important things like thinking and planning. Simplifying should…

This isn’t as easy as you might think.  It starts with knowing your priorities.  This helps you define your business goals, and should definitely save you some stress.  If you know you want to exercise every day, eat dinner as a family and be free in the evenings and weekends for your kids’ soccer games…

Picture 1: Bella as a puppy. Picture 2: Like piggy, like puppy (this is not an insult, we all love piggy). Picture 3: Bella with Dan, the leader of the pack. Picture 4: Bella following the rules & not going on the bed. This rule did not last long. :-) Picture 5: Bella means beautiful…