Of Kangaroos and Silence

August 23, 2010

My busi­ness coach asked me a ques­tion today. He asked me a LOT of ques­tions, actu­ally. But one in par­tic­u­lar stood out. Not so much for what he asked as for how I responded — or more accu­rately, could not respond. It was one of those ques­tions that every­body asks and that you answer on autopi­lot, you […]

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Your Home Office: Love it or Hate it?

August 23, 2010

I am cur­rently liv­ing in my ver­sion of a grass hut on the beach (it’s on the beach, but only a tiny patch of grass and none on the roof). And more to the point, I have been work­ing on a TV tray while seated on one end of my couch. While the view is […]

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Routine is Comfort Food for the Soul

July 27, 2010

Lighter AND Wiser As of the writ­ing of this post, I’ve lost 45 pounds. Yes. Delib­er­ately. By choice and by plan. Thanks. I’m not telling you this for con­grat­u­la­tions (although I do appre­ci­ate the thought). Rather, I have a story to tell related to the weight loss. Three months ago, when I began this par­tic­u­lar jour­ney, it was […]

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Is Your Stapler in the Right Place?

July 27, 2010

There are entire sci­ences built up around the effi­cient use of space and how work­space affects pro­duc­tiv­ity. How much thought have you given to whether your home office work­space is set up in a way that allows you to be as effi­cient as pos­si­ble? Obvi­ously everyone’s sit­u­a­tion is dif­fer­ent. Hope­fully you’ve carved out a home […]

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Do You Climb Invisible Hills?

July 25, 2010

I saw some­thing delight­ful this morn­ing. It was one of those rare moments of mer­ri­ment and glee that hap­pen spon­ta­neously. Let me set this up for you, because I want to share both what I saw and some thoughts that occurred to me after­ward about run­ning your home busi­ness. It was early, maybe an hour […]

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Grow a Beach…Not a Home Garden Project

July 25, 2010

If I could do math, I might have gone into engi­neer­ing. Process fas­ci­nates me. Think for a moment…how would you go about adding tons of sand to a beach? Beach renour­ish­ment has kept me enthralled over the past week or so. This con­tro­ver­sial process fights beach ero­sion by dredg­ing up sand and pump­ing it onto beaches […]

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Is your Email Running You?

July 23, 2010

Home Busi­ness Infor­ma­tion about Email Did you know that there are more than 1.3 BILLION email users world­wide? More than one per­son in every five use email. Some esti­mates put the num­ber of emails sent daily to exceed 210 bil­lion. That’s two mil­lion emails sent every sec­ond. Huh. It’s no won­der that some­times I feel like […]

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Workaholic vs. Home Business. Which Describes You?

July 21, 2010

Has any­one asked you recently what you ‘do’? How did you answer? How do you define YOU? Find­ing Bal­ance in how we live our lives, and bal­ance between work and self and bal­ance between work and fam­ily is a chal­lenge for most adults. It is a greater chal­lenge that verges on becom­ing an insur­mount­able problem […]

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Does Your Home Business Have Appeal?

July 21, 2010

Emo­tion Sells Peo­ple make emo­tional deci­sions. Every deci­sion from whom we marry to the clothes we wear to the color liv­ing room couch we buy is made from an emo­tional base. Often we rely on a host of log­i­cal rea­sons to con­vince our­selves that we made the best deci­sion. The truth remains that the deci­sion itself […]

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Does Your Home Business Have a Cubicle Mentality?

July 21, 2010

“In the his­tory of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.” —Lawrence Sum­mers, Econ­o­mist When you wear the hat of home busi­ness owner, nearly every­thing involves nego­ti­a­tion. Some deals are tiny, like get­ting a great price to print let­ter­head and busi­ness cards. Oth­ers are sig­nif­i­cant arrange­ments that can make or break your […]

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