Resources for a Productive & Creative Life
Have you ever given a presentation, tried to explain what you do, or taught a class, only to have it fall flat? Being sure you are understood, whether in a conversation or presentation, is critical to its success. It can seem a big challenge, but it really doesn’t have to be. If you follow these …
I think I may have been born with the entrepreneurial gene–or at least it bit me at a young age. I was fortunate to be raised in a family where my parents were willing to encourage teens to be entrepreneurs. As a result, besides babysitting, my first teen job was making macramé pot hangers for …
Like most other kids, I had career dreams and aspirations growing up, but becoming an entrepreneur wasn’t actively among them. I don’t think I even heard the word entrepreneur when I was a child. When I was almost 12, I started babysitting to earn pocket money. Babysitting didn’t pay particularly well, and I found myself …
Do you wish you could be a better writer? Are you putting off blogging because you don’t think your writing is good enough? Are your writing skills (or lack of) holding you back from the success you’re seeking? Is writing a challenge for you? You can become a better, more confident writer. You don’t have …
Having trouble keeping on task at your desk? If you improve your work space, you can increase your productivity, with a well-organized and comfortable workspace.
This time of year can be crazy busy, especially for entrepreneurs. It’s easy to get so wrapped up in filling orders, serving customers, holiday shopping, family obligations, and planning for the New Year that all the fun and meaning of the winter holidays, including Christmas and Hanukkah begin to seem like an impossible chore. It’s …
How will you wish your friends, family, and customers a happy holiday this year? Have you thought about it—or are holiday cards just an old-fashioned holdover from the last century? You can send a printed holiday card by traditional snail mail. It’s a time-honored tradition, more than a hundred years old. Sending a creative holiday …
One of the biggest challenges for most entrepreneurs, especially when first starting out, is how to be successful in your business & still have a life. Balance is not always a skill that comes easily when we are following our dreams and building businesses. I used to own a retail photography studio. For the last …
Spending long hours at the computer is not good for your health. Make a plan and regularly step away from the computer to take breaks and improve your productivity & health.
Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it all? Are you constantly overworked and overstressed? Does it feel like you just can’t ever catch up? There is a solution—and it doesn’t involve adding more hours to your day or cloning yourself. The real solution is to quit overworking yourself …
