Some of you may remember The Hustle as a 1970s line dance. Some of you may know this hip-hop song “Hustlin'.” One quick Google search elicited all sorts of inspirational quotes about hustling: “Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring.” “I’d rather hustle than slave 9-to-5.” Gary Vaynerchuk, author of Crush it! offers this definition of hustle, "Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand. Every minute needs to count. There is so

For five years I’ve been telling myself that I have to have everything in my business all figured out before I can confidently without a doubt tell potential clients that I can help. This is classic perfectionism at work: Unless I’m perfect, I can't let you see me. That’s the trap I have to keep escaping from, the belief that I have to have things “all figured out,” or I have nothing of value to share. I can’t tell you how profoundly sad that makes me—for me and for anyone wh

I obsess. No matter what, I will find something to obsess about. I had a former manager say to me, “It sounds like you’re borrowing trouble,” by which she meant I was worrying about something that hadn’t happened yet and about which I had no control. She called it borrowing trouble; I call it “future-tripping.” Of course, it’s much easier to see it happening in other people than it is for me to recognize it in myself. During this time of uncertainty, it is easy to obsess abou