Reinventing Yourself Through Mindfulness – A very thought provoking post with some incredible case studies. How much better quality of work can be done when we are mindful? The mind is a powerful tool.
Car Dancing for the Greater Good – Come on! You know you wanna! Check out the video.
In a previous blog post, I give you a link to a fantastic map on MindMeister that contained nearly every marketing technique known to humankind and I promised to go through each of those techniques and show you how to do them well, without spending a lot of time or money.
In today’s blog I’m going to talk about advertising (which is in the top, right-hand position on the map. Click here to read more »
Okay, usually when you hear that, it’s not a good thing. One of the first things you think when someone says that is: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid”. The second thing you think is “How do I get out of this conversation as quickly as possible before the person asks ME to join the cult, too?”
But trust me, this is a cult you’ll WANT to join.
Here’s how I stumbled upon this cult: I was totally looking for something else but I found this blog and thought: “yeah, I’m all over this, It’s called “the cult of done”. Two people – Bre Pettis and Kio Stark – wrote a manifesto about productivity. It’s simple and elegant. It’s just 13 points. And when you read them, you’ll be inspired! Oddly enough, they wrote it in just 20 minutes and I wonder if that time pressure added to its simplicity and elegance.
From time to time, I’m asked the following question by clients and friends and nice people on the street:
“Heather,” they say (or sometimes they call me Ms. Villa… just kidding, most of them don’t), “I’ve got a business and I want to market it with social media. What do you suggest?”
From time to time I subscribe to ezines and newsletters when the subject matter of a site is something I want to know more about. Unfortunately, they suck. Many of them.
Here are the things I hate about them:
In the last blog I talked about improving your business productivity by minimizing the amount of in-boxes, in-baskets, schedules, calendars, task lists, and other collection points you have. In this blog, I’m going to talk about how you can do that well… with the assumption that you can’t eliminate all of them, but you can consolidate a place to gather the information altogether.
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If you’re just starting out in business, this blog won’t apply to you… yet. But if you’ve been in business for a while, I think this will really resonate with you:
You get up in the morning to start your day. You open your email. There are 25 new emails plus a dozen from yesterday that you didn’t get to. You go to your task management system; there are a dozen tasks waiting, perhaps shaded with various colors of green (good!) and red (never good!). Then you look at your schedule. Then you look at your wall calendar. Then you check the proprietary task management systems that four of your clients have set up for you to use. Oh, and you haven’t checked voicemail yet.
We all face professional disasters of one kind or another. It’s inevitable, whether you work in your own business or for someone else. And sometimes those disasters are brought on by us (whether we want to admit it or not) and sometimes those disasters are externally occurring but impact us anyway.
I was going to list a few disasters but then I realized that I could fill the next 100 blogs with disaster story after disaster story; and you’d be likely to match me with your own disaster stories.
