Step Away from the Computer
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.
5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity
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 …
The 3 Essential Support Networks Every Entrepreneur Needs
Entrepreneurship can be a challenging life. Many entrepreneurs, especially those just starting out, often work alone. While being your own boss is often one of the chief attractions of entrepreneurship, every entrepreneur needs some support to help them on their path to success. Having a support network can not only keep from feeling (and being) …
How to Be a Successful Networker
Networking is an essential in the business world. While you can be successful without making networking your second career, it is virtually impossible to be successful in business, especially if you have customers of any kind (and what business doesn’t?) if you don’t network. Becoming a successful networker doesn’t take any special skills or talent, …
How Keeping a Business Journal Can Boost Your Success
Do you keep a journal? You should. Keeping a business journal can boost your success. Keeping a consistent, regular record of your business growth helps you keep track of new ideas, measure your progress, celebrate your successes and analyze your flops. What is journaling? Journaling is simply the act of putting thoughts or ideas onto …
5 Essential Keys for Small Business Success
Are you looking for the magic formula for guaranteed success in your small business? If you find it, will you let me know? Seriously, though, there is no magic formula. No secret combination of education, experience, funding, or products will guarantee you a phenomenally successful business experience. However, there are keys you can use to …
Trade Time Management for Priority Management to Boost Success
Priority management and time management are not the same thing. Do you know the difference? Have you fallen into the “Time Management” trap? Are you always trying to maximize your time, working on different systems to manage it, control it, and try and make more of it? Stop. Time doesn’t need managing. Time is the …
Taming the Email Monster: 4 Ways to Manage Your Email Inbox
Is your email inbox like mine? If I don’t keep a close eye on mine (meaning every 12 minutes), it somehow seeks revenge and its contents multiply faster than the hangers in my closet. Since I don’t want to spend my day babysitting the inbox, I’ve developed a few strategies that allow me to handle …
Simplify Mealtime and Save Money with Menus
Are you a victim of the dreaded 5 p.m. fridge stare? You know—the one where you stare blankly into the refrigerator desperately hoping for a little dinner inspiration? There is a solution. This simple solution will not only end the nightly fridge stare but will also free you from having to stop by the store …
4 Simple Ways to Get Organized for Fall Now
Fall is nearly here. We’ve already had our first snowfall here in Colorado. Thankfully, it confined itself to the high mountains and we are not yet a winter wonderland. But it was a good wakeup call. It’s time to get organized for fall. The days are getting shorter and the weather will soon be getting …