Are you feeling a little unmotivated by the summer heat? With kids at home? With longer days and the desire to be outside or hanging out with friends? I’ll get to the Summer Slump but first… I must be honest…I’m feeling the summer slump! I have been playing a lot! Golf, tennis, hiking, going out […]
Read MoreIs Your Space Productive? Have You Completed Your Spring Clean?
I was recently on a call with my business coach, and she was talking about this being the season of the wood element. We are all made up of elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood. And here we are in the season of Wood. It’s spring—this element makes us want to clean, to start fresh, […]
Read MoreDoing Delegation Right – Avoid the Micromanager Trap
DELEGATION. What a beast! Many people who follow me or who are in my community are already starting to delegate. What I’m hearing, though, is that business owners are feeling more like micro managers than delegators. I’m hearing, “the work isn’t done to my satisfaction, so I am doing it all over again,” or “I […]
Read MoreMercury in Virgo
I don’t know if you subscribe to the stars or not, but we have been inundated over the last several years of people talking about the havoc Mercury wreaks when in retrograde. Well guess what? For the next 5 weeks or so, Mercury is in VIRGO, which is the time to get PRODUCTIVE! Here’s what […]
Read MoreAre you Fiercely Focused?
Let’s get down to FOCUS and what is going on there! It’s summer. The sun is shining, the pool is open, the kids aren’t in school, the great outdoors and fabulous summer activities await! Who wants to work? For me, summer is the time to truly get fiercely focused so that I can play as […]
Read MoreSpring Clean that Calendar
Here we are, spring upon us! I know so many of us think of this as a time to deep clean our closets, garages, storage units and the nooks and crannies of our houses. As a matter of fact, my husband, son, and I just spent last Sunday cleaning out our garage. I feel like […]
Read More5 Reasons to Take a Day Off to Up Your Productivity and Focus
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 […]
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