Habits and Routines of 5 Successful People

As a woman president, you understand the importance of creating good habits; your habits can either help or hurt your success in life. Habits form good, regular routines that put you on track to accomplish your significant life and business goals. 

Here are the habits and nighttime routines of successful people that you can incorporate into your own routine. End your night well-rested and, by extension, set yourself up for a successful start to your day. 

Borrow the success playbooks of these well-known leaders.  They may not all be presidents but they know a thing or two about motivating others and making each day count.

How Businesses Fail to Scale

The key to avoiding failure as a company grows is ensuring that business leaders agree from the very start on what its products, ideal customers, and internal processes are. Solidifying these is critical before scaling up, as they clearly define a company’s business model. 

Failing to do this step is one of the primary reasons some startups fail in the scaling process, as they didn’t have a clear vision of where their company should’ve gone before the unprecedented growth took place.

Here’s a closer look at what scaling means and its potential impact on your growing business.

Buying a Business With Zero Money Down

There are a lot of people who would like to be business owners, but there is one small problem that is keeping them from pursuing their dream: lack of available capital. The assumption is that without a large bank account, it is impossible to purchase an existing business.

Although it is not as easy, is possible to buy a business with little to no capital.

How can you buy a business with zero money down? The answer in short, is creativity.

You will likely need to find a seller who is willing to finance at least a portion of your purchase, and you will need to find other alternative forms of financing.

Read more here to learn the ropes. 

Are You Stuck In Your Own Head?

Ten years ago, happiness researcher Gretchen Rubin set out to find the framework for a happier life. Testing the wisdom of the ages with scientific research, she learned how to strengthen her relationships, increase energy and more.

But a few years ago, she started to notice that she felt stuck in her head — disconnected from other people and from herself. 

Suddenly, I [Gretchen] realized that I’d been treating my body like a car that my brain was driving around town. But it was actually my body — through my five senses — that was my essential con­nection to the world. I didn’t want to come to the end of my life and think, “So many things happened to me. I wish I’d been paying attention.”

Discover from Gretchen some surprising ways that our senses can help us to focus more deeply, live longer and spark happiness.

WPO Chicago I Member Denise Press Featured in Fox Business

A recent study done by Morning Consult for Visa that surveyed small business decision-makers found that just 52% of U.S. small businesses have adopted AI in their operations, while about half of non-adopters are planning to follow suit within the next two years. Of those that have implemented AI, 85% say their use of AI has increased compared to a year ago.

"There is a recognition that AI and the advancement of technology is important in small business," Denise Press (pictured), Visa's head of small business for North America, told FOX Business in an interview. "There was an equal weight of, 'I don't know how to get started' and not knowing how to get started and not being experts in AI and/or new technology."

Read full story here.