Leaving It All On The Table
John Doherty
by John Doherty
2M ago
I’ll be transparent with you – from about the end of 2021 to mid-2023, I dealt with pretty intense burnout.  Because of that, I did the work I needed to do to sustain my businesses, and even launched EditorNinja around the end of 2021, but I struggled to do even that. I survived the weeks ..read more
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My 2023 Recap
John Doherty
by John Doherty
3M ago
What a year, y’all. This is my 2023 recap and is meant to chronicle the big things that happened, both good and bad. I’m going to break it down across work, personal, health, personal development, and travel. Work 2023 brought a big change for me. I shifted my focus from Credo, the business I started ..read more
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If not now, when? (A reflection on anxiety and choice).
John Doherty
by John Doherty
5M ago
My family moved into a new house in March 2023. With an expanding family and my wife and I both working from home, we needed more space.  Part of the change was going from 1 bathroom to 3. While this has been great for everyone, something I didn’t plan on was the immediately needed maintenance ..read more
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Maybe You Need To Do…More?
John Doherty
by John Doherty
7M ago
I talk to a lot of business owners and in-house marketers. A common trope I hear is that they’re testing different marketing things, but they’re not sure which ones work. I have a theory that I’ve developed over time, as to why they’re not seeing more success. My friend, Peep Laja from Wynter and CXL ..read more
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Building A Business Is Like Growing A Plant
John Doherty
by John Doherty
8M ago
Let me tell you about Fiona. Fiona is a philodendron that my wife acquired shortly after we moved to San Francisco and got married in 2014. For those three years, Fiona hung in the corner of our sun-filled San Francisco apartment. Then we moved to Colorado and Fiona hung in each of our living rooms ..read more
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Are you still selling during the proposal process?
John Doherty
by John Doherty
9M ago
Imagine you’re going somewhere to meet up with friends. You’ve plugged the location into Google Maps, you know what time you need to leave, and your friend is waiting for you to pick them up. You get in the car and turn on the ignition. An hour later, your friend calls you. “What’s up? Where ..read more
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The Bar Is (Hilariously) Low
John Doherty
by John Doherty
10M ago
Want to know how to succeed in business? Do the work that others are not willing to do, or simply just are not doing. My wife and I own a couple of properties. As such, we have different contractors for different things: Plumbing/Septic Electrical Lawn mowing Fence building Cleaning once per month Plumbing/Septic At our ..read more
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3 Frameworks That Changed My Life
John Doherty
by John Doherty
1y ago
Those of you who know me, know that I’m all about personal development. I work hard to improve myself, for my own good but also for the good of others. By working on myself, I’m a better husband, father, boss, friend, son, brother. In the last few years, starting with the pandemic where I wasn’t ..read more
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6 things entrepreneurs should do in an economic downturn
John Doherty
by John Doherty
1y ago
On my personal podcast recently, I shared my take on “the upcoming recession” (spoiler: I don’t think we are in nor will we be in one, and if we do it will be markedly different than any past one and will only be purposeful, not because of an underlying instability AFAIK) and why I don’t ..read more
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“What if this was easy?”
John Doherty
by John Doherty
1y ago
I often get caught in the trap of thinking that anything worth doing “should” be hard. It’s a perfectionist tendency that I’m trying to unlearn. Because of this tendency, I am prone to over-complicating things. I feel like I need to add a lot of steps to a process or features to a product before ..read more
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