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Use Your Calendar to Make You More Efficient, Effective, Creative, and Successful

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People ask me frequently how it is I can be so organized, or how is it I get so much done. The answer is simple: my calendar. Granted, my calendar – see above – looks like a mess! I use an Outlook calendar and can see one day at a time, or one week, or one month. But it’s really not a mess at all. In fact, my calendar is OH SO useful. Because everything is recorded on it – […]

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K.I.S.S. in the New Year

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I’m sure it seems as impossible to you as it does to me that we are almost into 2020. It’s seems like “Y2K” was just a blink of an eye ago – and here we are two decades later. Many of us are thinking about how we’ll live our lives differently in 2020 than we have in years prior. So I thought I’d share with you some of the best advice I have received in years – something I’ve worked

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A One Word Action Step For Us All

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This week’s TIP is a reminder to us all – including myself! – because it’s too easy to violate this one word action step. I cite it today because I was actually guilty of failing to do this myself – and then had to apologize, and fix the problem, a problem which, had I paid attention, would not have happened. I wasted her time, my time, and it took far more effort to fix the problem than it would have

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A Creepy, but Useful, Time and Payment Tip (in Time for Halloween!)

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Sometimes it’s really tough to be able to estimate exactly how long work with a client will take. Especially in the early years of your practice, and in particular when a client contacts you asking you to do something you know is within your competency, but you’ve never done for a (paid) client before, it’s almost impossible to assign an accurate amount of time to the project in front of you. Without the accurate amount of time, you will probably

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Use the Calendar for Your Marketing

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This is October. It appears the world has turned PINK in the name of breast cancer… as if someone spilled a lifetime supply of Pepto Bismol and it coated the world. The breast cancer PWB (powers that be) have done a remarkable job with this branding of pink and breast cancer since their first year of pink in 1985. All that PINK does an extraordinary job of raising awareness for breast cancer research and its fundraising. And thus – October

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