I don’t know about where you live, but here in Charlotte, NC, it sure feels like spring already. My car is coated in yellow pollen The windows in the house have been open for several weeks My seedlings are sprouting like crazy The insects are busy – flies, bees, and inchworms galore! It’s March, people! […]
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Eat, Sleep, Poop, Beg
Day in and day out, the dogs in my house know what is important: Eat Sleep Poop Beg (or at least do one heck of a job reminding us owners that they haven’t eaten recently) Why is it that we owners have such a hard time knowing what’s important? I recently read somewhere that most […]
Risky calls, regular postcards and the secret to success
I heard some brilliant advice recently from my friend and former client Craig Dunn, owner of Carolina Office Solutions here in Charlotte. He said, “Now is the time to take small risks. Make small investments in your business, in your employees, and in yourself.” I couldn’t agree more and was delighted to hear him share […]
A One Minute Workday
Ok, yesterday I didn’t actually work for only one minute, but it sure seemed like it. My eight hour day literally flew by. What I was doing is less important than how I was feeling. Or rather what I wasn’t feeling. I was literally unaware of time. I wasn’t hungry. I don’t even think I […]
Distracted by numbers, comments, and Facebook
I have just one question for you today: Are you relentlessly focused on the one or two things that actually make you money in business? Those actions that get you clients and increase revenue? My newest client called me because he realized how much he wasn’t focusing on those things. Social media, his website analytics, […]
Grocery-getting and being organized
After a weekend away, Nelson and I came home to a rather pathetically empty fridge. I headed over to the grocery after work, picked out what I needed and stood in line behind a little girl who was running around using her jacket a Wonder Woman cape. After her mom paid for groceries and they […]