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Twenty-Five Years Later: A Morning I Will Never Forget
Some mornings never let go of you. Today marks twenty-five years since September 11th, 2001. I was home with my newborn son. My toddler daughter…
When Your Team Is Doing Everything Right and Nothing Is Working
If effort is high and outcomes are inconsistent, look at the structure, not the people. This is one of the harder conversations to have with…
You Don’t Need More Hours. You Need Better Infrastructure.
The problem is rarely the calendar. It is what the calendar is built on top of…I used to think the answer was more time. More…
What a Real Reset Looks Like in Business
Reset is not a vibe. It is a process. I chose reset as my word for 2026. Not because I needed a fresh start aesthetic…
The Cost of the Decision You Keep Not Making
Avoidance is not neutral. Delayed decisions compound. There is a decision you have been sitting on. Maybe more than one. You know what it is….
Processes Are Not the Enemy of Creativity
Structure does not flatten good work. It protects the space where good work happens. I hear this objection regularly, especially from creative service businesses. Coaches,…
Why Your Business Feels Chaotic – Even Though You’re Making Money
If you’re making money but everything still feels heavy, reactive, and scattered, you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re experiencing a normal – but dangerous –…
25 Years In, Here’s What I Actually Know
This year marks 25 years in business. A quarter century of building, breaking, fixing, and starting over. I keep waiting to feel like I have…
What Proactive Actually Requires
Knowing you should be more proactive is not the same as kEvery business owner I talk to knows they should be more proactive. They say…
The Bottleneck Is Usually You
When every decision runs through one person, growth has a ceiling. I say this with genuine respect, because I have been there myself: the most…
I am proud to announce that Adonai Business Solutions, LLC is celebrating Twenty Years of being in business. In many ways, it doesn’t seem that long ago. But for me, it was literally a lifetime ago. April of 2001 my son was born and I became a stay-at-home mom of…
It is party hats and champagne (or maybe fizzy pop wine as my friend would say) day here at Adonai. I have just completed one of the most grueling business training programs out there. I have now become a certified Online Business Manager. I worked my butt off and I…
I realize that this is not a topic most people like to discuss on a personal level. And I am guessing that you have not even thought about it on a professional one. But it is an important topic and one that we can no longer hide from. Do you…
Entrepreneur.com published an infographic that caught my eye: The Most Common Bottlenecks Holding Your Business Back. Half of the top six were process issues; confusing processes, too many processes, and not enough processes. That says quite a bit about how important the right processes are to any business. They are…
Are you curling up on a cold winter’s night, and wishing for something inspirational, helpful, and exciting to read? Something that gets you excited about starting, owning, and growing your own business? I love sharing books that give you great advice, helpful tips, and get you excited again about your…
This book will inspire and inform you…and hopefully encourage you to grow your business in new and exciting ways! One of my hands-down favorite author, Seth Godin, and his 2002 book Purple Cow. Before you dismiss this years-old stale book that can’t possibly teach you anything, give it a try….
I want to introduce you to another 2002 book, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish. Despite the age of the book, it’s a business classic for a reason. One of the reasons I love it is that it hits on systems and processes…my specialty! This is a book filled…
You know it is important to keep looking for new ideas and better practices…we all do. The hard part is making time to do it. One of my favorite sources of inspiration and information is Entrepreneur. Last month I found an article there that really got me thinking. “Secrets to…
Do or do not, there is no try. – Yoda Yoda as business leadership inspiration? Yes. I love Yoda. All that courage, wisdom, will, and power tucked into that small, frail-looking character just grabs me. The scene where he is teaching his student to do more than he believes he…