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Where did your vision come from? Where'd you unlock this?

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Yeah, so I think a little bit of trial and error and learning for myself to be honest with you

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because when I started my business, it was great for me. I was happy, right? Working whenever,

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all the time, but I enjoyed what I was doing. It was wonderful. And my family and friends were like,

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Donna, when can we see you? Right? My kids are like, Mom, are you going to make it to this week's

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baseball game? Oh, yeah, just one more email, you know, just one more. And to be honest with you,

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I was on a road to burnout. I just couldn't see it. Right. But I was headed in that way with no

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doubt. And so it was really nice. I've been saying something's going to change here or this family

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and this thing we got going on is going to break. Healthy battery. Yeah. You need to, you know,

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figure out what you're doing because this is not working out. And I don't like it, to be honest

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with you. I don't like it one little bit. Right. It was hard to swallow, but he was right. And so

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I really had to take a step back and say, how can I still continue to grow this business without

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being in it all the time? And that's when I had to start to look outward to what big CEOs were doing.

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Was I Microsoft? Nowhere near it. But how was Microsoft CEO handling his day? Because, right,

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they've got a lot more on their plate than I do. And what nuggets and tidbits can I take from them

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and then institute in my business for a small business owner perspective? And so that's when

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I really developed some what I like to call CEO habits, which helps small business leaders be successful.