Did you miss any of these? 👀

In the December 2024 edition:

• ICYMI: A roundup of the most popular Catbird Care Package articles from 2024 👀

• The best “Something Neat” resources and links I shared this year 🤓

• A few little treats—‘tis the season! 🍩

SOMETHING USEFUL

Best of CCP 2024: Articles for Solo Small Business Owners

June 2024
Feel safe in your business: How to have less stress and more success

How to feel financially and personally safe in your business, no matter what challenges you may face in the future.

November 2024
You care about your business. Are you caring for it? A different way to look at admin work

You know about self-care, but are you practicing business care? How to make sure you’re not putting critical business health tasks on the back burner (and sabotaging your personal wellness in the process.)

July 2024
What to do when there's no one to delegate to: Solo owners need a whole different approach

Conventional business advice says delegate, delegate, delegate. Here’s what to do if you’re a solo owner with no one to delegate to.

SOMETHING NEAT

Here are my favorite (and the most-clicked) Something Neat resource links from 2024 Catbird Care Package newsletters:

Understand yourself and your motivations better with the Four Tendencies framework. I think about this every day when I plan out my work—from the June edition of CCP.

Unblock your creativity with these 10 tips from Katherine May, author of Wintering (the perfect book to read right now)—from the September edition of CCP.

Want your marketing to be more effective in 2025? Check out the Growth Vault from Demand Curve, a marketing agency focused on startups and small businesses—from the August edition of CCP.

A LITTLE TREAT

Lastly, some little treats for your winter break:

A playlist of some of my favorite songs from 2024. Listen to it while you read about all the other “bests” from this year—from the November edition of CCP.

If you need a quick brain break (and you’re a bird nerd like me) watch Cornell’s bird feeder cam livestream—from the September edition of CCP.

Need something fun to do without leaving home? Check out Google’s Arts & Culture collection to tour international museums and art collections from your couch—from the July edition of CCP.

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