Micropreneur Skill Accelerator · Be the Magic Without Burning Out

Is it for you?

The consultant. The tradesperson with a truck. The maker selling online. The bookkeeper with a home office. The couple running a shop together.

Who it fits

You do the sales, the delivery, the books and the marketing, and you're good enough at all of it that nobody has noticed you're tired.

Any stage works: an idea you're serious about, a side business, or a business that's busy but running you instead of the other way around.

What it asks of you

Two to four hours a week, on days you pick and protect.
An accountability partner outside your business, fifteen minutes a week.
Real action each week: the call, the price, the number you've been avoiding.
Proof of what happened. A phone camera is enough.
A time you stop working, and the nerve to keep it.

Five laptops, not fifty

You're not undisciplined. You're overloaded.

Norm Johnson-Korbuly loves bringing a dead laptop back to life. Five in a day, he enjoys. Fifty, and it's an assembly line. The work you love comes in a dose. Below that dose it feeds you. Above it, it drains you, and a business will keep raising the dose for as long as you let it.

The answer isn't more discipline. It's a load you can carry every day: small promises you keep, a clear time to stop, the fundamentals done on purpose, and help before you're desperate for it. Consistency beats intensity.

Ten weeks, ten skills

Each week pairs one problem that trips up small business owners with the skill that fixes it.

1. Self-discipline Scattered days
2. Customer focus Guessing what customers want
3. Clear communication People can't repeat what you do
4. Decisiveness Prices set by gut and fear
5. Resilience Sales that come and go
6. Financial discipline Cash surprises
7. Self-awareness Doing everything yourself
8. Adaptability Waiting until it's perfect
9. Curiosity Working alone
10. Long-term focus Burning out

Capstone: your one-page Micropreneur Operating Plan, the page you run the next 90 days from.

By Week 10 you'll have

Not a binder on a shelf. Things you built and already tested in your own business.

A rhythm you can keepA daily card with a minimum, a target and a time you stop, plus a shutdown routine you've run.
Customers in their own wordsFive real conversations, two plain sentences a stranger understands, and a price you set on purpose.
Sales and cash on a scheduleA weekly sales block, a weekly money appointment, and a 90-day cash calendar with your tightest week marked.
Less of it on youOne task written down well enough that someone else has already done it from your notes.
People in your cornerQuestions answered by people who know, and a room you keep showing up to.
A plan that says noOne 90-day goal, a later list, and a one-page operating plan that fits before your stopping time.

Interest list

Want to work the ten weeks with a group?

A guided Micropreneur cohort is in the works: the same ten weeks, a small group of owners, and a guide who has done it. Dates aren't set yet. Join the list and Norm will reach out when they are.

Joining doesn't commit you to anything, and it costs nothing.

Prefer to talk now? Call 612-703-3026 or email norm@johnsonkorbuly.com.

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Which one sounds most like you today?

Idea only. Nothing built yet, no customers Getting started. Building it, not yet paid Early. Some paying customers, still uneven Steady. Regular customers and regular revenue Stretched thin. Plenty of work, and it's running me

What would help most? (pick any)

A guided cohort An accountability partner Tell me when the book is out Norm speaking to my group

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