Improve Yourself 1% At A Time
As this unconventional COVID-19 school year is wrapping up, a local iHeartRadio station has been advertising how they’ve asked prominent leaders and celebrities to give…
Being Realistic About Your Cost of Creation
Until you really get things going in your creator business, coming up with a price can be hard. It sucks. Worse, it’s sometimes hard to…
How to Treat Personal Car In Your Business
After last week’s very high level post about finding your “why,” I figured it’s time to get back to some more nuts and bolts of…
Finding Your Why In Life
We all know someone who has figured out their “why” in life. That one person who attacks their job or service or PTA meeting with…
Gladwell’s Coupling for the Self Employed
Does the concept of coupling discussed in Malcom Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers help Self Employed Indiepreneurs? Maybe. While I’ve been reading Gladwell’s latest book, my…
Telling Your Message So Others Understand
As self employed individuals, Indiepreneurs do not have big marketing departments to craft that perfect message. We do what we think best, sometimes with input…
Keeping Habits In Difficult Times (COVID-19 Edition)
From where I’m sitting right now, the world looks bright and shiny. And yet based on the news reports, it’s currently falling apart. COVID-19 is…
Online Tax Advice Can Steer You Wrong
I’m going to make a statement that I realize is deeply ironic: be very careful with online tax advice. For those of you who haven’t…
Rethinking Productivity in COVID-19
Somewhere along my Public Accounting career, I became obsessed with the idea of productivity. In my firms, I realized what we were doing didn’t match…
Home Office — Business Use of Home
NOTE TO START: I prewrote a bunch of articles to get this blog started, including this article about Home Office use for tax purposes. With…