Growing up, the rule was, “Leave a room nicer than it was when you found it”. I like applying that principle to my projects because it gets results. It’s gratifying to make improvements that do what’s intended and empowers a client’s goals. In that spirit, I want ...
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Something I love about my work is the variety of projects I manage for each client. This has been a week where I’ve been freshly reminded of the power of first asking the question, “What do you think your needs are?”- and then listening closely to the response. Often I work ...
Women Entrepreneurs Have Greater Job Flexibility
I experientially state that this is true. Flexibility is as good as money. Before I’m anything to anyone outside of the walls of my home, I am Mom. There are four kids, currently ages 9-18, who need me on a daily basis to be a Life Bracket. (And while I’m talking about Things That ...
12 Reasons Why I Am Not Leaving Facebook in 2014
The word on the street is that there’s an exodus taking place: people are leaving Facebook in droves. The buzz about teens leaving has been around for awhile- Mashable even did this nifty statistic chart showing the age contrast of Facebook users since 2011. And to be sure, there are some ...
What Happens When You Unplug? Using Technology-Free Time to Make Smart Decisions
I’ll start with the scary part. Last year, about 13 months ago, I thought I was having a heart attack. At 38. I was driving out of the Target parking lot in the afternoon. I was also talking on the phone, checking for texts from two of my kids, trying to get to another child’s bus ...
The Power of No: Setting Personal and Work Boundaries for Greater Productivity and Integrity
Why can’t people get work done at work? It was the premise of a very good talk by Inc. columnist and 37signals co-founder Jason Fried at TEDxMidwest. He articulated the need of “creatives” – designers, programmers, writers, engineers, etc- to have long periods of uninterrupted time to get ...