You don’t have to run a massive corporation to embrace the benefits of corporate life. Set yourself up for success with these simple attitude adjustments.

There’s a reason many a top designer has chosen a teensy three-letter word (that’s CEO) to list as their de facto job title: When you start thinking of yourself as the type of dynamo who helms international corporations, your stock instantly rises.

“The business side of my brain works just as hard as my creative design side, so absolutely, I identify with that title and use it in my website bio,” says Georgia Zikas of her West Hartford, Connecticut–based firm. “We are an S Corp, and we run incredibly efficiently. What I do each and every day is 100 percent executive-level functioning.”