Today in Global Small Business: Biggest Threat to Success is Overthinking

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Overthinking often slows or even stalls progress by causing muddy thinking and overwhelm. It's aimed at preventing mistakes but overthinking itself becomes a bigger threat to success than mistakes.
• Americans across the country are remembering George Floyd five years after he was killed by police, with special gatherings in the city where he grew up and the one where he died.
• Why the Supreme Court is handing over more and more power to Trump.
• Quote of the week:  “Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.” – Earl Warren
• The trade war has turned a spotlight on the artisanal clusters behind glamorous goods, inviting fresh scrutiny of one of the industry’s key selling points.
• Remember the true meaning of Memorial Day.

Today in Global Small Business: Black Lives Matter

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Think white privilege doesn't exist?  Wakeup.  Basic analysis here (from 2001). 
• The official #BlackLivesMatter Global Network builds power to bring justice, healing, and freedom to Black people across the globe.
• Quote of the week:  “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Peaceful protests and demonstrations about the death of George Floyd go global.
• The enormous scale of this important movement.
• Are Americans letting their guard down to protest the killing of George Floyd by police?

Today in Global Small Business: Unrest in America

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Tens of thousands of people took to the streets for a fifth night on Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd and other African Americans at the hands of the police, resulting in violent clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators while fires raged across the country. Tragic.  Heartbreaking.  Unnecessary. 
• George Floyd protests spread nationwide.
• Quote of the week:  “A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• George Floyd protests timeline (might require registration).
• George Floyd couldn't breathe.  Now all black America can't either.
• What George Floyd deserves.