The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Business
The great news is that your clients probably never lay eyes on your work-space. So why would tidying up even matter? I mean, some days you don’t even shower. (Oh come on, admit it.) Well, in the words of Marie Kondo, best-selling author of The […]
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Business
Your clients probably never lay eyes on your work-space. (Oh, thank God, right?) So why would tidying up even matter? Â I mean, some days you don’t even shower. (Oh come on. Admit it.) Well, in the words of Marie Kondo, best-selling author of The Life-Changing […]
It’s Only a Paper Meme
What’s in a meme? A meme is when one blogger writes about a particular topic and then “tags” other bloggers to get them to write about the same topic. What’s this meme? This meme is about being paper-less. It’s about generating ideas so that we […]
12 Success Tips for the Self-Employed
I was originally going to call this post “Success Tips for Artists.” However, artists and the self-employed have much in common. So, these tips are the practical things I’ve learned over 14 years of working for myself and being an artist. 1 – Provide value […]
The Stickiest Reason We Keep Stuff We Don’t Want
“Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris Just as we can fill our days with a whole lot of nothing — splattering our attention on things that don’t really matter to […]
Write it Down & Make It Happen, or How to Make Millions in the Stock Market
Nothing speaks louder than a personal story. So, here’s a success story about written goals and taking action. My birthday was on Wednesday. Even though we’re all supposed to party like it’s 1999 on our birthdays, I typically spend mine reflecting, writing in my journal, […]
Organizing Tip: The Mess Behind the Desk
Two years ago, I let go of an employee who had been in my record label office for several years. The process was painful, and there were lots of incompletions and unresolved messes that went along with it. Anyone (especially sensitive types!) who has ever […]
How to Clean Out your Email In-Box
On the one hand, I love email. On the other hand, I see it as the great time-waster, the ultimate distraction. How many times have you blocked out an hour or two to start a big project, or to sit and write, or to do […]