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🍷 Not everything deserves the best of you
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Your Best Resources Need a Better Assignment Hey Reader, There are only so many hours in the day when your brain is doing its best work. Only so much creative energy. Only so much emotional bandwidth. Only so many people, projects, opportunities, and ideas you can care deeply about at the same time. We know this. And yet, as entrepreneurs, we can behave as though the goal is to somehow manufacture enough of ourselves for everything. Maybe if we get more organized. Find the right app. Wake up earlier. Create a better schedule. Become more disciplined. Surely then everything can fit. Except ... What if everything doesn’t deserve the same amount of you? That’s a very different question. And it’s a leadership question. Last week, we talked about protecting your company’s greatest asset: you. But protecting that asset is only half the job. You can protect your best creative hour — and spend it answering routine email. You can create breathing room in your calendar — and immediately fill it with low-priority obligations. You can protect your attention — and then hand it to every interesting opportunity that wanders by. Protection creates capacity. Leadership decides where that capacity goes. And here’s where it gets tricky: The hardest choices usually aren’t between something obviously good and something obviously terrible. An opportunity can be good — and still not belong in your business. A client can be good — and still not be the right fit anymore. An idea can be good — and still not deserve this season’s resources. A commitment can have served you beautifully — and still have reached its expiration date. Sometimes the leadership work is separating good from right for right now. That’s the idea I explore more deeply in this week’s article, Not Every Grape Makes the Reserve Blend: How to Decide What Deserves Your Best Resources. We’re talking vineyards, $100 bottles of wine used for cooking 😳, pruning without making something — or ourselves — wrong, and the questions that help you decide what actually belongs in the blend you’re making now. Here’s the question I especially want you to borrow this week: If this weren’t already in the blend, would I add it today? Ask it about something currently receiving your time, attention, energy, creativity, or emotional bandwidth. Not Was this ever a good choice? Not Should I have done this? Just: Knowing what I know now, would I choose this again today? Your answer is information. Your Action Step this WeekChoose one client, commitment, offer, project, platform, habit, responsibility, expectation, or opportunity. Ask: If this weren’t already in the blend, would I add it today? If the answer is no — or even an uncomfortable probably not — consider what pruning might look like. Maybe you release it. Or reduce it. Renegotiate it. Pause it. Delegate part of it. Finish it and don’t renew. Then complete this sentence: I’m giving less __________ to __________ so I can give more __________ to __________. Because pruning isn’t about creating the emptiest possible business. It’s about making room to give your best resources to what deserves them. 💛 Insider & VIP CornerIf you’d like a little more structure for these CEO-level decisions, August’s CEO Harvest Report is available to Tenacious WFH Entrepreneur Insiders and VIPs. It helps you look at what produced, where you invested well, what needs pruning, and what deserves another season. Your best resources deserve your best discernment, friend. 🍇 Upgrade anytime to unlock this month's Mini Power Tool, along with the growing archive of practical worksheets, templates, and resources created to help you build your business with greater clarity, confidence, and sustainability. Premium subscriptions start at just $5.83/month. 💎 Upgrade your experience here.
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Win WFH Tip of the WeekWFH Tip: WFH doesn't have to be all work! To WIN working from home, add something fun to your workspace. Grit & Grace Affirmation of the WeekI am confident. I am strong. I am powerful. Say it. Believe it. Be it. From the book Badass Affirmations by Becca Anderson I hope you enjoyed this week's newsletter. Thank you for linking arms and being part of my working from home tribe! I'll be back next week with more tips, inspiration, and other fun stuff to empower your WFH success. Until then, have a beautiful week! xoxo, P.S. It's my goal to inspire you and remind you of your greatness as we navigate WFH life together. If you loved this week's newsletter, please feel free to forward it to your friends! And just one more thing ...
August 20, 2026 | Coach Michele Peterson
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Coach Michele Peterson
Get my best tips and insights on productivity, confidence, balance, and connection ... learned from 15 years of successfully working from home. Long-term WFH is a CHOICE, a lifestyle, a CULTURE. And I believe that if you're going to do something, you should do it right. But you don't have to do it alone. Activate your free subscription to The Tenacious WFH Entrepreneur newsletter so that you get your weekly dose of grit and grace to keep you going by entering your email address below.
Would Your Best Employee Want to Work for You? Hey Reader, Imagine you’ve hired the best employee you’ve ever had. She’s smart. Dependable. Creative. Resourceful. Clients trust her. She knows the business inside and out. Frankly, you’d be in trouble if she left. Now let’s examine her working conditions. Lunch? Sometimes — although eating at the kitchen counter while answering email apparently counts. Vacation? Absolutely! As long as she keeps an eye on her inbox. Working hours? Very flexible....
It's Harvest and The Vineyard Isn’t Panicking Hey Reader, This time of year, harvest has its own infrastructure at our house. There’s a laundry hamper in the garage for crush-pad clothes stiff with sweat, grape juice, and pomace. My winemaker husband keeps extra clothes in his car — including multiple pairs of socks — because after enough harvests, you learn what the season can ask of you. It all looks very active once the grape trucks start arriving. But here’s the thing: The harvest didn’t...
The Quiet Habit That Changes Everything Hey Reader, There’s something comforting about tending a rose garden. This time of year, my roses are in full bloom. Some mornings I wander outside with my coffee and find gorgeous blossoms that seem to have opened overnight. Other mornings, I notice petals scattered on the ground after yesterday’s heat. A bloom that's finished its season. A stem that needs deadheading. Leaves asking for a little more attention. I never look at a struggling rose bush...