Guess what? I TOOK A DAY OFF. And it wasn’t a weekend. When is the last time you took a day? When is the last time you took a day GUILT FREE? I’m betting you may be working MORE since your stay-at-home order started a couple of months ago. Here’s the thing… we are tired. […]
Read MoreUsing a RULE OF THREE to Get Focused and Productive Every Day
There are so many people in business who work from home either part time or full time. And right now, just about EVERYONE is working from home as their city, state, or country are on a Shelter-in-Place order. Even for those of us who work at home normally, these times have been especially hard because […]
Read More3 D’s to Exit To-Do List Purgatory
How many of us are list makers? List upon list upon list. And THEN, we have a sticky note to amend the list, adding things as we see fit! And what about the people doing things not on their list but adding them only so they have the satisfaction of crossing them off. WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?
Read MoreThe Net Worth of Networking
3 tips to getting the most of your networking experiences When people ask my husband what I do, he says, “My wife? My wife is a professional meeting goer.” Now he knows, and those who know me know that is definitely not true! It makes me laugh, though, because I guess it ’s true to […]
Read MoreWhat’s Waiting for You Out In Your Courage Zone?
5 tips to Get Yourself Out There How do you function best? Do you like to take action? Do you like to do research? Do you like to sit and think through how something will look before you leap? Me, I am an action taker. Most of the time it works out for me—it’s not […]
Read MoreTake Back the Morning!
5 Tips to Feel Accomplished Before Your Day Begins How many of you start out your day jumping on e-mail, getting your kid ready and off to school, and jump right in to work? How many of you WISH that you had some time to do something for yourself— even a quiet cup of coffee […]
Read MoreI Think I Can, I Think I Can
As it’s Christmastime and I have a blog to write, I was hemming and hawing over what I could write about that would feel relevant. As I was lying awake one night a couple of weeks ago, the age old story of The Little Engine That Could came to mind. We all know that the […]
Read MoreDo the Hustle
Nope, I don’t mean the 70’s dance. I mean HUSTLE as in GET IT DONE and DON’T GIVE UP. I know that some folks think of going after what they want and doing what they need to do as the GRIND. What a negative connotation that word has now—the daily GRIND. What if we started […]
Read MoreLean on Me—How to Avoid Lonely Entrepreneur Syndrome
Here’s a tough question: In your business, have you ever felt lonely and frustrated as if no you had to do it all yourself and didn’t know how? I have. I have felt lonely. I have felt like I wanted to take that easy way through or out of my business. I have had doubts […]
Read MoreIs it Time to Make Shift Happen?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of change and shift lately. Now that my business is 9 months old—I CANNOT BELIEVE this—I’ve started to assess what is working and what needs to shift. Not change, mind you. Shift. What the SHIFT does that mean? Well, change, to me, means that there is a […]
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