Simple Sense for Small Business

Today's Glitch is important for many because it's HURRICANE SEASON. But there are lots of natural disasters that could impact a business.

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Both of us have had personal experiences with control freaks at work. YOU?
https://youtu.be/T23TRnS77oA?si=M8sMJ...

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This image explains my pet peeve perfectly, it spells 𝗖-𝗢-𝗠-𝗣-𝗟-𝗔-𝗖-𝗘-𝗡-𝗖-𝗬. Someone commented on our ‪@CTRoadTrips‬ video asking whether the town was Portland, MA or Portland, OR.

1️⃣ The channel is called CT Road Trips
2️⃣ The title of the video says CT.
3️⃣ The location tag says Portland, CT.

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒕...
𝟑 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕.

We’re not sharing this for the eye roll. We’re sharing this because this level of inattention shows up daily on truly important business issues, with real consequences.

We’ve watched it play out for six (6) years on our ‪@EIDLExperts‬ channel.

The SBA COVID EIDL was a 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙, 𝙙𝙤-𝙞𝙩-𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 federal loan program. It required business owners to read, track, and manage the details of a federal loan agreement. For many, that was simply too much to ask.

Not because they're not bright, but because they WEREN'T paying attention.
They skimmed. They assumed. Thus, the results were predictable.
Missed deadlines. Compliance violations. Federal collection action. Assets on the line.

𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓪 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓻𝓴.

In business, it’s a liability. The information is almost always available.
The question is whether you’re paying attention to find it.

Stay curious. Your brain will thank you.

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This Glitch could be right up there with SALES because it requires interacting with clients. June 5th Glitch #157: https://youtu.be/j9mhOBX1_wY

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PET PEEVE of the Week: A 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 is one of the most expensive habits a business owner can have. I said what I said. And before anyone comes for me, let me be clear. I’m not talking about people who have experienced genuine trauma, hardship, or systemic barriers. That’s real, and it deserves respect.

I’m talking about the pattern, the habit, the default setting of making every uncomfortable situation someone else's fault.

The control you have over your 𝓭𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷-𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 also determines 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔.

There are people who play the victim when things get uncomfortable or inconvenient. They turn every inconvenience into an injustice. They collect evidence for why things cannot work instead of figuring out how to make them work.

For small business owners, victim mentality is a silent killer. It sounds like:

❌ "The economy is why my business isn't growing."
❌ "Nobody supports small businesses anymore."
❌ "I would have succeeded if people hadn't gotten in my way."
❌ "It's not fair that big corporations have more resources."

And yes, 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 external forces are REAL. The economy is genuinely brutal right now. Tariffs, inflation, and corporate consolidation are genuinely stacked against Main Street.

But here is the difference between acknowledging reality and living in a victim mentality:

One is information. The other is an excuse. Information says, "𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐴𝑁𝐷 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼’𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡." Excuse says, "𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙. 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧?”

Victim mentality removes 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚. It explains away every gap between where you are and where you want to be.

The most resilient business owners I know, the ones still standing after decades, after recessions, after pandemics, after the struggle du jour, share one thing in common:

𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨.

✅ You’re allowed to feel frustrated.
✅ You’re allowed to grieve what didn't work.
✅ You’re allowed to acknowledge that the system is rigged.

AND THEN you have to decide what you’re going to do with it.

Nobody’s coming to save your business.
Nobody’s coming to save your life.

What are you going to do about it?

#SmallBusiness #Mindset #VictimMentality #Accountability #BizGlitch366 #SimpleSenseForSmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #ToughLove #GrowthMindset

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The Full Moon on May 31st is a Blue Moon, the second full moon in a single month, and that alone makes it rare. As I was shuffling, THE MOON card jumped out on its own. Unsolicited. Cards that leap from the deck do not get chosen. They choose US.

Then I drew the 10 of Swords. THEN, at the very bottom of the deck sat the 10 of Cups. Here is what I noticed before I even interpreted a single card:

🌕 TWO TENS showcase powerful completion energy
🌕 ALL THREE cards share a blue background. This could be subconscious energy
🌕 TWO CARDS carry the sun in their backgrounds
🌕 ALL THREE cards have yellow highlights
🌕 10 of Swords, the darkest card, carries a sunrise inside it. The new day is already breaking.

THE MOON, jumping uninvited, could be something that's been operating in shadow, hidden, uncertain. Maybe even an illusion we’ve been telling ourselves about the business, its direction, or our next move.

Two tens double down on something is coming to completion. The question is, what?
For small business owners, this Blue Moon spread is asking:

📌 What illusions in your business are you ready to release?
📌 What has ended that you may be trying to resuscitate?
📌 Can you see your own sunrise in your business?
📌 What joy are you ready to accept?

The Moon jumping out of the deck could mean our intuition is already trying to lead. The only question is whether we’ll let it. For me, I need to trust my intuition more. Not as a mystical concept, but as data.

We have more intel in our gut than any spreadsheet can capture.

What is completing in your world right now?

PS: Another 10 card was picked YESTERDAY! youtube.com/post/UgkxttBkEbc9-CnmiV3ujOtukVFwcuh5_…

#BlueMoon #FullMoon #TarotForBusiness #SmallBusiness #SimpleSenseForSmallBusiness #Intuition #BizGlitch366 #MoonRitual

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Today is Memorial Day AND World Tarot Day AND the day STAR WARS was released in 1977 AND Glitch #146 for May 25th (had to sneak that in there! haha)

20 seconds: How being boring in business has benefits youtube.com/shorts/MpweiGFXR1M

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𝓣𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂'𝓼 𝓫𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓜𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓵 𝓓𝓪𝔂 𝓐𝓝𝓓 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝓣𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓽 𝓓𝓪𝔂. I had to pull a card for the collective, for our businesses, for our lives, for this moment. I used my Sci-Fi deck, then pulled out the 1909 RWS deck and the Romance Comic Book deck to compare how the images were interpreted for the same card.

𝟭𝟬 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀: 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆. 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝘀.

This card carries a deeper meaning than abundance on this Memorial Day. The 10 of Pentacles (or Coins or Disks) isn't just about material wealth. It's also about how and what previous generations sacrificed so we could stand here today.

Yesterday, I pulled the 5 of Cups. It should be just below this post. It asked us to honor loss. Today's 10 of Pentacles asks us to honor what remains, what’s preserved, what was passed down through sacrifice.

𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚.

Not skipping the loss, but recognizing that even after three cups spill, the legacy continues. But not everyone feels the abundance of the 10 of Pentacles today.

✔Some are struggling
✔Some lost the family business
✔Some have never inherited wealth
✔Some are the first to build something from nothing

The 10 of Pentacles isn't always about HAVING abundance. It's about recognizing you’re part of a chain. Even if you're starting from zero, you are building the 10 of Pentacles that someone else may one day inherit.

𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚. 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕.

📌 Honor what was sacrificed
📌 Acknowledge what remains
📌 Recognize what you're building
📌 Remember, you are CREATING the inheritance

You don't have to feel abundant today. Perhaps recognizing you're part of something bigger than one lifetime.

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I wanted to pick one tarot card to glean some insight into the upcoming week. I picked the 5 of Cups. This is not surprising and is rather fitting, as we honor Memorial Day to start our week.

The figure cloaked in black stands with its back to us, focused on three spilled cups while two remain standing. There's grief, loss, disappointment. The bridge in the background offers a way forward, but they haven't turned to see it yet.

Memorial Day asks us to honor those who have been lost, to feel the weight of sacrifice and absence. The gray, rainy skies many of us will see in the Northeast mirror this card's somber tone.

Sometimes grief needs acknowledgment, not hasty positivity glossing over the reality of what’s prompted our grief. But here's what the 5 of Cups also shows us: While we’re allowed to mourn what's gone, two cups still stand. Could they be:

1️⃣ Resources remain
2️⃣ A bridge to pursue a journey

Hope hasn't disappeared; you've just turned away from it temporarily.

This week's practice: Take time to acknowledge what may feel hopeless or disappointing right now. Don't skip the grief. The figure in the card needs to FEEL the loss before they can turn around.

Also, ask yourself: What resources do I have that I'm not seeing because I'm focused on what's lost?

Wishing you a meaningful Memorial Day weekend. Honor the losses, then gently turn toward what remains.

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