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When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice

When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice: I recently saw a post on Instagram that said something like this: “Follow your gut. Trust your intuition. If something feels wrong, it is wrong.” Well-intended advice, I’m sure. I suppose there’s something to it—and there are definitely times when we might indeed “go with our gut.” More than a handful of times since starting a business, I’ve begun some sort of professional business relationship with someone where …

thoughts keeping you up at night

3 Tips for Sleep when your Thoughts are Getting in the Way

I came up for the idea for this post, ironically, as I found myself lying in bed at 3am thinking about what to write for my next blog post.  After a few minutes of allowing my mind to wander and come up with new ideas for the next BIG smash blog post, I realized that it was only a couple more hours until I needed to get up for work and that now was not …