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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.
Have Something Ready for the Woman Doing the Work Hey Reader, It’s just the two of us at home now. But when I make pork chops, I’ll often make four. Two for dinner. Two extras for lunches. Leftover soup goes into individual sealed soup mugs, ready to pop into the microwave. I occasionally manage weekend meal prep. But planned leftovers like these examples are something I do frequently. I’m already cooking dinner or putting food away, so a little preparation fits into what’s happening. Later,...
Make Room for the Whole Commitment Hey Reader, A friend invited me to a networking lunch recently. She was one of the sponsors, and I wanted to support her. Making connections was a good reason to attend, too. The event was 90 minutes long. But there was also a 30-minute drive each way. Arriving early to mingle. Staying afterward to continue conversations. Following up with people by text or email. The extra time easily added up to two or more hours. The invitation was for 90 minutes. My yes...
Give One Meaningful Priority a Place to Grow Hey Reader, For about 10 years, I’ve had a small boysenberry patch tucked beside our backyard garden. These berries came from starts brought over from my grandparents’ vines. Grandma and Grandpa had three or four long rows, and I have VERY fond memories of Grandma’s berry pies and boysenberry jam. My little patch has kept that connection growing. We’ve enjoyed a modest crop each year. Recently, though, we removed a diseased loquat tree, and our...