if all you have is a hammer!
You’ve heard the old adage: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It’s amusingly simple, but it holds profound truth in the context of your mental fitness.
What tools do you currently have in your mental toolbox, and are they the right ones for the challenges you face?
Written by Dom Cassone
on Monday, 02 June 2025.
Posted in Business Resources, Insights, Life & Lifestyle
A Course in Why Your Business Growth is Sluggish or Stagnant or Stressful… and How to Break It Free.
Homeostasis is the body’s natural tendency to maintain stability and resist change — a powerful mechanism that ensures balance. While essential for biological survival, the concept is metaphorically at play in your small business.
Some time ago I realized that the dreaded homeostasis ‘virus’ had infected my business mind.
Written by Dom Cassone
on Friday, 09 May 2025.
Posted in Business Resources, Insights
A Course in Why Your Business Growth is Sluggish or Stagnant or Stressful… and How to Break It Free. Part 1
If you’re a small business owner who feels like you’re constantly juggling too many things, always busy but rarely progressing, there’s a hidden force at play you need to understand: homeostasis. While it’s a healthy and necessary mechanism in biology, in your business homeostasis can silently sabotage your growth.
Written by Dom Cassone
on Friday, 25 April 2025.
Posted in Business Resources, Insights
Not enough hours in your day? Too many demands on your time?
Entrepreneurship is often painted as an exciting journey of passion and purpose. Yet, behind the scenes, many business owners find themselves trapped in a cycle of long hours, constant decision-making, and the pressure to keep everything running smoothly. Over time, this relentless pace can lead to burnout, stress, and even a loss of the very passion that started it all.
If that sounds familiar, you’ve probably already heard it all.
Written by Dom Cassone
on Friday, 21 March 2025.
Posted in Business Resources, Business Strategy, Insights
A Better Way to Run Your Business
Running a small service business often involves juggling multiple responsibilities, which can lead to feelings of overwhelm. However, by adopting a mental fitness program directly aimed at business owners like you, you can transform stress into a state of Ease & Flow, enhancing both your personal well-being and business performance.
Written by Dom Cassone
on Friday, 14 February 2025.
Posted in Business Resources, Insights, Life & Lifestyle
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Do you find yourself frequently caught in a web of stressing about things you can’t control? You might be surprised to learn that a significant chunk of that mental energy is likely going to waste.
Stress often springs from our inability to be flexible and accept situations as they are. It feeds on our strong attachments to particular outcomes, expectations, and methods of doing things.
on Tuesday, 14 January 2025.
Posted in Business Resources, Insights, Life & Lifestyle
Stressed Business Owner? Live with ease and flow
Does this sound familiar? You are stressed to the max with running your small business, wearing too many hats all at the same time. Wishing there were 30 hours in every day, 8 days in the week? I’ve been there! As a business owner for over 30 years and, for the vast majority of them, I was stressed to the max! Not only with the business itself, but how to have balance in my life between work, family, and leisure, etc.
“Your mind is your best friend. But it can also be your worst enemy.”
on Friday, 01 November 2024.
Posted in Business Resources, Life & Lifestyle