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Confession Time

I found a new solution to stress - confession. The particular stress I experienced this week was made up of equal parts frenzy, pretending everything was ok, and confusion. You see, I have this project I'm working on, and if it doesn't go well,  I won't be able to fulfill obligations I made to some colleagues. A terrible feeling. So...
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Do Less Meaningless Work

Date of original publication: July 8, 2010 "Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most people to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity." -  Timothy Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Workweek I'll admit it, I'm brainwashed. Even...
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How to Get Committed

I'll admit it, I got a bit grumpy this week. I was fretting over a big project that will keep me on the road a lot over the next week, plus the demands of seeing my regular clients, writing blogs, creating a new program, etc. I started to get paralyzed by it all, when a new thought popped into my...
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Great Greetings, Batman!

Believe it or not, you can make a huge shift in your business by simply changing your voicemail greeting. Think about it - your outgoing voicemail greeting is often the first impression you make on prospective clients. What does yours say about you? Here is a typical voicemail greeting: "Hi, thanks for calling the Bat Cave. We're either fighting crime...
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Overwhelm, Chapter 427

I recently went to lunch with a good friend who also happens to be a great business woman. She just got back from a huge business seminar with hundreds of people, tons of information – like drinking from a fire hose. You’ve been there. She shared with me how overwhelmed she felt, and how she just knows that she’s missed...
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I NEVER Want to Exercise

I was frantic. I wanted to go to the gym in the afternoon. You must understand - I NEVER want to exercise, so I seriously needed to take advantage of this sudden burst of motivation. The problem was, I was mired in important but tedious tasks that I did not want to do. Simple things, things that I could give...
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Glinda, the GOOD Control Freak

One of the top reasons people give me for not delegating to a Virtual Assistant is that they are Control Freaks. I’ve worked with several clients to curb this issue, and have had some success. But then I got to thinking… is being a control freak such a bad thing? Is it possible to become a really GOOD control freak?...
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It’s in the Details: Formatting Tips for Cleaner Copy

Here are just three of my favorite formatting tips to help with putting together sharp and professional-looking written materials. Clean your text. How many times have your written up some material in, say, Microsoft Word, then copied and pasted it into an online format only to have your formatting go completely awry? The reason behind this is because many editors...
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How to Get $1.7 Million in Business

Let me warn you up front – you are NOT going to like the answer here. I don’t even like it. It’s too illogical for my Vulcan tendencies. But I’m going to tell you anyway, because it is the truth, and I get to tell a story. I love telling stories. My husband is a real estate agent, and he...
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Seven Strategies to Manage Business Stress

1. Find ways to make other people smile. I read a novel recently, and a character said, "Winning makes you feel great. Helping someone else win makes you feel great, longer." Helping others gets you out of your own stress. 2. Create standards. Standards put priorities into practical application on a daily basis. In other words, they let you design...
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I Didn’t Want to Write This

On Tuesday I scheduled myself to write an article for my ezine, and found myself struggling. Now it’s Thursday morning, and it just hit me that my struggle to write provided me with perfect topics for this week’s article. As I mentioned, on Tuesday I was scheduled to write this article. It was the first item on my list, but...
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Batch Instead of Distract

Recently I spoke to the Ventura Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners about Virtual Assistants, and the topic of “batching” tasks for efficiency came up. I found this article I wrote in September of 2009 back when I was still doing Virtual Assistance work myself. Last week I had a very rude awakening. I woke up early,...
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