What Works | Small Business Podcast With Tara Mcmullin

What’s the ROI on mental space? What would it be worth to you to get some peace of mind? What would you be willing to do to alleviate a bit of uncertainty from your life or business? All this month, we’ve been talking about simplifying and the immense benefits you can experience by building a simple business. We’re going to close things out here by taking a look at how operational improvements can create a profound sense of relief—and open up mental space that you didn’t even know was cluttered! I can easily remember what it was like to run my business before we built solid systems. Cluttered is exactly how I would describe it. It wasn’t just the operational clutter–files all over the place, to-do lists scattered all over my desk, and priorities that could change on a whim. It was also the mental clutter. Where did all that mental clutter come from? Well, it was a result of a whole bunch of unhelpful habits and patterns. It was people-pleasing and scarcity thinking and en