I find a mountain of junk under my daughter’s bed in the morning so…I rant.
I find myself behind the slowest driver in all of Sunday-driver Slugville so…I rant.
I look in my emailbox and find out that my client has just dumped a ton of work on me and given me no time to do it in [...]
Ultimately, to fix or improve business systems, it’s important to pinpoint and fix the problem, rather than just throw resources (time, people, emotion) into the black hole of disorganization. Troubleshooting correctly is a valuable skill.
I’m having a cultural collision moment this week. Normally, as Cheryl has pointed out, I work in a “hygiene optional,” pajama-wearing environment. My go-to wardrobe with 2 small kids leaves me ready for action at a moment’s notice, if you’re talking signing a child’s permission slip or mountain climbing (my running shoes have traction!). For [...]
I had a boatload of deadline driven work this week for which I am very thankful, of course. The work, however, put me in a tough spot as a parent. There’s nothing I like less than my children having to look at the back my head all day, while the front of it is glued to [...]
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Yesterday at church, I was semi-scolded for the windows being open in the Women’s Sunday School room while the AC was on. Never mind that I’d just arrived at church minutes before, that I hadn’t opened the windows, and that the women hadn’t yet met for the Sunday School hour. Still, I was told to [...]
No pressure, universe, but I’m not sitting here waiting for the phone to ring/mail to come/e-mail to update, refresh, and fill to the brim with “I want to hire you now!” entreaties.
While I’m waiting for the starting bell to ring on my next project (which it will, really), I’m dedicating myself to staying productive in the personal department. [...]
Andie and I have talked before about the curse of the work-from-home salary. My husband is the primary breadwinner, and my work is part-time, at home, and sometimes in my PJs. Considering all that, it’s so easy to think of whatever I earn as (a) extra, (b) mine, and (c) a reward for my trouble [...]
A true story: At my local mall on Saturday, I could see from my vantage outside Gamestop a little ATM oasis. And, as I sipped my diet Coke, I watched a woman walk up, press a few buttons, scratch her head, then proceed to open the hood of the ATM machine!
Concerned, but more curious, I [...]
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I have a couple of at-home careers going right now. There’s the freelance writing gig, the online blogging gig, and the special occasion music gig. But even with all that, I’m a pretty small shop. I’m always trying to build readership and clientele, and I’ve learned that word of mouth is one of my best [...]
In the Success Secrets newsletter, it was reported that 83% of Harvard School graduates had no goals 10 years after graduation; 14% had goals, but not in writing. Those (3%) who had written goals were earning 10 times as much as the group with no goals. Even the 14% whose goals were not in writing [...]