The Good Monday, I got to visit with a dear friend who is an amazing mover and shaker in the PR world. She’s dynamite. The meeting was quick, but good grief, I love her. Tuesday I was lucky enough to have lunch with Rachel Shingleton. She presented in her freshly coiffed new ‘do, resplendent in…
A long time ago, I stumbled across Posie Gets Cozy, the blog of Alicia Paulson, a beautiful heart who lives in Portland with her husband, Andy. Her blog is a carefully cultivated story of a charming life, complete with scrumptious food pictures and gorgeous layers of textiles and textures. She always posts the most precious…
About a year ago, I boarded a plane to return home from Engage!11. I missed my boys, but I wasn’t looking forward to the holiday season. For us, holiday season meant 18 hour days, screaming customers, acts of God (ice storms) that were out of our control, and this past year, no cash flow with…
I’ve been working on my photography skills and trying to get some more shots of the Day Designer, and I thought that would be the perfect opportunity to hop over here and do another giveaway! To enter, you can: Follow me on twitter Tell your Facebook friends about the Day Designer giveaway and link to…
Many people ask me WHAT I do. This year, that’s been a hard question to answer. It’s easier to tell them WHY I do what I do, than to tell them what. However, one of the initiatives that I have been helping with this year, is a website that I founded several years ago, GetPapered.com….
Here’s the biggest mistake I’ve made in business so far: not charging for my time. Please note that I didn’t say, “Not charging ENOUGH for my time,” I said, “not charging for my TIME.” Any of it. Yes, I have worked for free. Let me tell you why it is a bad idea to work…
Today, Thursday won. I lost my voice on Tuesday, and have been sort of operating at half-capacity since then. I think I tried to rebound too quickly, and squeezed a lot into today. It took every ounce of willpower for me to not make a batch of cookie dough after the kids went to bed….
My sweet friend, Shannon Ho, just sent me the link to some pictures she took of us the other day. I wept as I clicked through the pictures. Words escaped me. The only thing I could think to say to respond to the moment, was: Stuff doesn’t matter. This does.
Why isn’t this working? Have you ever asked yourself that? Maybe you’re trying to get a new venture off the ground–and it just doesn’t seem to be able to take off. Maybe you’re in an existing business, and all of a sudden, sales seem to fall off. Frustrated, you stand there, looking at everything: numbers,…
