Hey there, First name / friend!

 

I know it has been a while since I’ve written, and that’s largely because life has been… full. Not bad necessarily, just different. 

 

As my life circumstances are changing, my capacity is changing with it. I’m also having to learn new ways of being in relationship with my creativity. I have new humans in my life who I care deeply about and want to spend time with. That also means that the time I was able to spend in years past alone, in contemplative thought, is not as vast as it once was. 

 

I have had to become more discerning about how I spend my time and when/where/how the work gets done. There’s nothing quite like a change in life circumstances to be the great perspective shifter.

 

There is so much I would like to speak to and share with you all, and also, I’m honoring what I have the capacity for in this moment, and that is to keep things short & sweet and share a couple of gifts with you.

 

Last fall I wrote this blog post about pricing for service-based business owners and why it can be so confronting. I also created several spreadsheets to accompany the post to help you calculate your ideal budget and hourly rate and a project planner tool to help you arrive at a quote for each project so that you are no longer simply guessing. 

 

And… if the idea of opening up a blank spreadsheet scares you, I have a video to accompany each one where I walk you through how to use it. I tried to make it as approachable as possible! All of these resources are free and available to you in the Newsletter Resources! (Password is JustBeyondYourself and it is case-sensitive.) 

 

After five years of taking a solo business retreat every quarter to help me reflect and recalibrate, I decided to share my process in my latest blog post. It also has a Pre-Retreat Checklist as a freebie companion piece, which you can also download directly from Newsletter Resources. 

 

And… if you’d like even more support to help you set up this structure for yourself, I have created a set of Notion templates that include sample agendas, journal prompts, a quarterly project plan, a post-retreat check-in, and more! It’s quite robust, and you may purchase it for $11. 

That’s it for now my friends! 

 

Should you decide to dive into either of these (or anything else in the Newsletter Resources!), please know that I would love to hear from you and support you as you journey through that work. 

 

Is there something else you would like to see me create for you that would support you with a present business challenge? Maybe that could be the next thing added to Newsletter Resources! Simply reply here, and I would love to make that happen! 

 

Grateful to be here with you.

xo,

M.

 

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Speaking of planning your quarterly retreat… next week I’m hosting a workshop with iFundWomen where we’ll use the hour to decide what project you’d like to work on and create your retreat agenda! It’s free to join.

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Don't forget that I always host Virtual Office Hours where we can talk 1-on-1 for 30 minutes via video chat! Wanting to talk through some business challenges? Cool! Really just want to have a coffee date since we don't live in the same city? I'm totally into it!