Why You Should Simplify Your Business and How to Get Started

by Marissa Bracke |

Simplifying your business should be a priority. Because apart from being a contributor to business owner burnout, complexity also contributes to business instability and an inability to bounce back from change. And since stability and resilience are keys to a healthy,...

Simple Is Not The Same As Easy

by Marissa Bracke |

Simple and easy are used as synonyms, and they usually shouldn’t be. Simplifying your business means (a) identifying what is necessary and what matters, and (b) eliminating the rest. And let’s be very clear: Simplifying your business does not mean that everything...

The First 3 Things Business Owners Need to Do When You Start Losing Control of Your Business

by Marissa Bracke | Last Updated: Oct 10, 2016

Things are going pretty well, until they’re not. That’s how it feels when your business starts to get away from you. It’s not catastrophic. It’s not black-and-white. It’s the difference between the plates spinning fine, and spinning juuuust fast enough to be on the...

11 Quotes on Taking Action

by Marissa Bracke |

From brand new entrepreneurs to long-time success stories, there's one trait that all of us share: taking action. Without it, we never make it past the “dreaming and hoping” phase. And with it, we've been known to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds....

What the heck does EagleMouse mean?

by Marissa Bracke |

Q. What the heck does “EagleMouse” mean? The idea sparked from something one of my first clients said to me “way back when” (over 8 years ago!). My business got started by accident — a story for another day — and I was doing virtual...