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Lost My Funk

What do you do when you are an entrepreneur and your household income is soley your responsibility and you have lost your funk? With all going on in my personal life it’s been hard to focus on work and blogging because even though I know the decisions that have been made are the right ones, it’s still a huge change. Luckily my daughter has taken the separation well, her response was “he’s not my father, if it was my Dad then I would be upset. Justin is only my step Dad mom”. Silly me to think my 7 year old who has had Justin a part of her life for the past three and a half years wouldn’t be upset … silly Mom what were you thinking?! Lately I have …

Setting Achievable Goals

I always have had goals, various things I would like to achieve in my life, however, I never really sat down to create immediate goals. One part of starting a business should be to set forth what you hope to achieve from  having said business, for instance some immediate goals. Lately I have been feeling like I am simply living day to day with no expectations of what tomorrow will bring. I would like to change that. One thing I am going to look into is a visionary board or vision board I think it’s called. My friend Angie Strader has one and she said it has been a fantastic motivation for her! When setting goals it’s best to use a technique called SMART (see image above). The SMART technique …

RIP Black and Purple PC

It is official the PC that my husband built me back in 2006 finally died last night.  Three years ago my husband built me a custom desktop that was painted purple with LED fans that lit up purple, the case was black. My favorite colors are black and purple and so this was my favorite PC in the whole wide world. About a year ago my husband upgraded my black and purple PC and so it was running faster and we became closer than we had previously been. I woke up to the announcement yesterday that my husband had tried to revive my black and purple PC to no avail. My black and purple PC wasn’t giving any signs of poor health, but now that I think back it was …

Inbox Nightmares? Organization Tips

Are you having inbox nightmares? Do you wake up with so many emails that your eyes pop out of your head, your shoulders slump and you sit back just wondering WHEN you will be able to actually “work” today? Let me tell you that you are not alone, many work at home professionals and entrepreneurs have the same issues. What I can tell you is you have a friend, ME. I am here to help lend some tips on what works for me, and how I personally keep my inbox tidy so that I have a more productive day. First, depending upon which email service provider you use these terms may be different. I use Gmail, and “folders” are called labels and so my terminology will reflect a Gmail account, …

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