Your Business Is Not Your Boss
Your Business Is Not Your Boss is a resource for small business owners who want to swap stress and overwhelm for calm, focused, and effective action. Covering topics related to personal leadership, self-management, effective delegation, and healthy mindsets, Geoff Welch uses each episode to help small business owners accomplish more with less effort.
Episodes
January 27, 2025 • 18 mins
I just opened a Christmas present from someone I didn’t know when 2024 began.It may sound strange coming from a 48-year old, but 2024 was great because I made a couple new friends this year.I know some folks who can’t chart a path to their mailbox and back without making a new friend, but that is definitely not me.I don’t really need to stack up friends like firewood, but investing in new friendships this year has really shown me h...
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January 20, 2025 • 16 mins
Derek Jeter ended his career in pinstripes as an iconic Yankee, but it wasn’t because he was the most gifted athlete on the field.In fact, he was famous for arguing that talent wasn’t the true measure of a person’s potential:“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.” - Derek JeterThe gentle spin I’d like to place on this quote is to offer a ...
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January 13, 2025 • 21 mins
All growth is on the other side of incompetence.This means that the enemy of growth is an unwillingness to embrace incompetence.In order to do something you can’t currently do – like speak French, bench press 150 pounds, or make it through the day without feeling overwhelmed – you will have to enact behaviors you aren’t currently capable of doing well.In my experience, the people who do this best are at the early stages of their ca...
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January 6, 2025 • 15 mins
A long time ago some dude named Newton came up with some incredibly popular ideas called Newton’s Laws of Motion.One of these laws, basically, is that objects at rest stay at rest and objects in motion stay in motion unless something interacts with them.This law parallels neatly with Geoff’s Law of Clean Countertops which states that clean countertops are more likely to stay clean and messy countertops are more likely to become mor...
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December 30, 2024 • 22 mins
I don’t know a single small business owner who hasn’t felt overwhelmed and exasperated at one time or another because the demands on their time are out of control. It’s not uncommon to feel like there will never be time for OUR plans because we can barely keep up with all the stuff that gets thrown at us.Yeah, same.Here are 5 levers I pull when I feel stretched thin:Do a time audit to figure out how much time is actually yoursIt ca...
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December 23, 2024 • 18 mins
Last week I hit you with a list of things you should stop doing and today I’m going to pull a tight 180 and offer three things you absolutely cannot delegate.Let’s dive in.The vision for your business. No one else can decide why your business exists and what you want from it. No one else can decide the impact you want your business to make or the overarching goals you hope to accomplish. No one else can decide who your business exi...
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December 16, 2024 • 23 mins
Stop doing these 7 things in 2025 and watch your stress decrease while your team levels up.STOP Keeping everything in your headIf you do it because no one else knows how, document it. No one can help you if you don’t have an instruction set for them to follow. Capture it while you do it and you’ve given yourself the chance to delegate it next time.STOP Focusing on other people’s prioritiesOther people’s priorities WILL absolutely n...
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December 9, 2024 • 19 mins
Every year on the day before Thanksgiving I drag storage boxes containing our Christmas decorations from the shed into the house. Unfortunately, after 11 months in storage, the contents of these boxes look completely foreign to me. I start to get my bearings after I sort through the boxes for a few minutes, but there are always questions like, “where did we put this last year?” and, “do you remember what I used to hang this?”A...
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December 2, 2024 • 27 mins
In this episode, Geoff tackles the transformative power of the Weekly Review, the third anchor ritual in his productivity series. Learn how a structured 90-minute process each Friday helps him close out the week with clarity, align his actions with his goals, and set up the next week for success. Geoff shares practical steps to customize this ritual for your own life, ensuring nothing is left hanging and you're always primed for pr...
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November 25, 2024 • 28 mins
In this episode, Geoff tackles the importance of ending your workday with intention through a Workday Shutdown routine. As part 2 of a 3-part series on productivity rituals, he shares how this 30-minute practice helps him assess progress, capture open loops, and reset for the next day. Tune in to learn how creating your own shutdown routine can help you leave work with clarity and prepare for success tomorrow.The new year is right ...
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November 18, 2024 • 27 mins
Taking effective action on YOUR priorities won’t happen by accident. In fact, without a bit of planning, and some focused effort, it won’t happen at all.I use three anchor activities in my week – the Workday Startup, the Workday Shutdown, and the Weekly Review – to keep me oriented in the right direction. Today starts a 3-week series that will highlight each of these “rituals,” starting with the Workday Startup.I fully expect your ...
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November 10, 2024 • 30 mins
Hoping your business will become what you want it to be is not going to cut it. To make 2025 the best year yet, you are going to have to get specific about what you want and start employing behaviors that make it possible.Here are five steps that will help you get there.Figure out what you want more of (and what you want less of)Shaping your business into something that truly works for you isn’t something that happens accidentally....
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November 3, 2024 • 21 mins
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.Nicole and I were on a weekend getaway at a Nordic Spa, enjoying a relaxing moment in one of the warming pools with a handful of other guests who were conversing in disparate groups. A new couple entered the pool, found a place to sit near us, and began their own conversation that started with, “my therapist told me to ask you…” The exchange was deeply personal, often argumentative, and I kept ...
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October 27, 2024 • 25 mins
Before you start setting goals for next year, do these 3 things:Ask, “what went right?” and figure out why.Consider the systems you used, the processes you employed, the campaigns you ran, the products you introduced, etc., and probe them to determine how to harness the success you enjoyed, carry it into the new year, and apply it to new initiatives.Ask, “what went wrong?” and figure out why.Consider the same things listed above an...
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October 20, 2024 • 28 mins
I recently heard someone offer an exercise to small business owners:Take your core product offering and develop a version that costs 1/10th the current price, and another that costs 10x the current price.At first this exercise seems very difficult, maybe even impossible, but intentionally adding a 1/10th constraint or a 10x expansion forces you to look at your offering from radically different perspectives. It opens the door to add...
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October 13, 2024 • 23 mins
During our summer camping trips, Nicole and I played a lot of Gin.We were pretty evenly matched, but each of us would find ourselves on a hot or cold streak from time to time.During a particularly chilly series of hands I found myself being playfully derided by my wife, which led me to a profound and liberating realization:I can’t control the cards, and the cards can’t control me.I think we all find ourselves in circumstances we ca...
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October 6, 2024 • 16 mins
Once upon a time my daughter developed a rash that kept getting worse.After a few days it started bleeding and my mind wandered to some dark places.Will it leave scars? Is it contagious? Is it some sort of flesh-eating bacteria? My overactive imagination wasn’t doing me any favors.Anxious and afraid, we took her to the doctor. After a cursory examination he told us exactly what it was and how a simple cream would remedy the wh...
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September 29, 2024 • 23 mins
Only a tiny percentage of projects are going to work exactly as you expect.Here’s the weird part: most people know this, like in their bones they know it, and yet they are still surprised and frustrated when the unexpected shows up.That’s kind of like being flabbergasted that the sun came up AGAIN today or that small children will need to use the bathroom at the most inconvenient times.These are immovable truths of the universe.I t...
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September 22, 2024 • 18 mins
Here’s an overwhelmingly unpopular opinion: I don’t believe that anyone really wants money.They want what money can do for them.Money is a tool, and in the same way that no one really wants a pile of hammers, piling up money for sport isn’t really gratifying.You don’t really want to be rich…You really want to demonstrate your success to your friends, or…You really want access to the best healthcare as you age, or…You really want to...
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September 15, 2024 • 23 mins
I recently came across a video in which a man is expressing wholesale amazement to his wife that the trackpad on his laptop allows him to SCROLL up and down if uses two fingers.He can’t believe that, per his wife, it’s a feature that has existed on every laptop he’s ever owned.The video wraps with him, still in absolute disbelief, saying, “what else don’t I know?!”What a great question, but one so many of us are wary of asking.“Wha...
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