Heather Villa

In our household, we do Christmas for the festivities – that is the decorations, the smells, the music and the family time. Gift giving has not been huge for the last five years or so, mainly because when we want something, we get it instead of waiting until Christmas. However, on occasion we can find [...]

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Patrick Lencioni is wrong. Oh, he seems like a nice enough guy, and his books (Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, or Death by Meeting are decent enough books), but in a recent article with Forbes he seemed to take a stand against virtual teams. In the article “When you Absolutely Can’t Meet Face [...]

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I had my first day today at an attempt of a Polyphasic Sleep Cycle. Unfortunately it is going to be very short lived. However, not for the reasons I originally thought. Everything I had read spoke about the crash and burn, the crankiness, the inability to begin sleeping when you first try, the difficulty of [...]

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Okay, I am taking the dive, effective immediately. I have been reading tons of information about sleep cycles lately and I decided to test out the Polyphasic Sleep cycle. For those of you that don’t know what Polyphasic Sleep is, in a nutshell it means sleeping in short periods throughout a 24 hour period, rather [...]

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Sometimes a little flair (or what I call web-sexiness) will make all the difference. Take a look at a recent change I just made to the blog here (see it live over in the right hand column). I am interested to see if my subscriber averages increase due to this little (but dramatic) change. I [...]

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It has been awhile and I have been a bit sick with the flu, but I wanted to update my readers on my home office (post 1 here and post 2 here). We are about 50% completed. The new AC has been installed. The new desk has been installed. The two 24″ monitors were swapped [...]

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Just a really short note to let you know that the Ductless A/C unit got installed today. A colleague of mine is coming to take the portable unit off my hands tomorrow If you don’t know ‘what’ I am talking about, check out my earlier blog post here. Otherwise – this is just a quick [...]

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