Be a smart cookie.

Does your business deserve to succeed? You might put in the hours, so much so that you're stressed to the max, unable to look around and see the hole you're digging yourself into. Clever business owners and successful workers too know that working smarter, not harder is the key.

Too much nose to the grindstone stifles growth

To get the best from yourself and others, follow a reasonable daily routine that includes thinking time. And that includes seeing what the competition are doing, thinking about how your business can evolve and improve, because staying still is the new going backwards. The companies that stagnate their way backwards race to the bottom whilst newer, fresher thinking competitors sweep them into the gutter. And you'd rather be the broom than old cookie crumbs, right?