New week, new month, new time

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It’s the dreaded first business day of the month, which means… invoicing day. Oh, well. As much as I hate the paperwork, invoicing (sometimes) means getting payments, so there you have it.
Had a fun weekend, am feeling much better (and hopefully will be sounding good enough to sing this weekend—it’s our band’s [...]

Work week… huh?

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Had a good weekend, but feel like death warmed over this morning. I’m coming down with either a sinus infection or a head cold, and I’m just glad to be working from home. Too bad self-employment doesn’t provide benefits like sick time.
Going to keep it light today and see if [...]

Go go go!

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Getting right down to business because I’m excited about my first task.
Most Important Tasks

Create a new WordPress theme based on book navigation (table of contents, index, etc.)
Set up my operations manual with said theme, and port the existing content over
Perform (or write instructions for Leanna to perform) promised upgrades for [...]

New week, new hair

Had fun getting my hair done on Friday. Call it a Pink for October endeavor. Also enjoyed visiting with friends most of the weekend, and had a good hike yesterday (we’ve been going on Saturday afternoons lately but switched to Sunday this week due to weather and over-crowded schedules).
Most Important Tasks

Prepare for and participate [...]

Yet Another Plan for Productivity (YAPP)

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After my post last week, I carefully considered both of the productivity courses I was thinking of taking… and decided to go with “neither.” Why? Because realistically, I already know most of what I need to do and am not doing it, so I think it would be a mistake to spend [...]

Tackling One Habit at a Time

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I was up early this morning with heartburn (completely new to me courtesy of pregnancy; I’d never encountered it before last week, so I can only be so whiny ) and decided it was finally time to buy the Zen To Done ebook.
I’ve been wanting it for months and am starting [...]

Monday Motivation: Good Habits

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Feeling much more upbeat this week. I think a little legitimate discontent was exactly what I needed to push me in the right direction.
I tend to do life in cycles. Right now, I’m moving into a fitness phase where I care again about being healthy, so I’m going to shift some of [...]

Monday Motivation: Capitalize on Existing Opportunities

The ebook is finally finished and up for sale! Whew.
I’m generally a very positive person, but last week’s demands just about killed my positivity. The Mac issues I mentioned turned out to be a crashed hard drive. There were definitely some things to be thankful for (that I had backups of almost everything; that the [...]

Monday Motivation: Reduce Project Load

I’m hoping against hope that it’s not going to be “one of those days.” It started out well, considering I’ve already gotten through most of the 150 emails (!) that came in over the weekend and it’s not even 8am yet, but then I wandered into the office (I’d been working on my laptop) and [...]

Monday Motivation: Ooh, Shiny!

I struggle with focus. I love the challenge of new things, but have a bad habit of taking on too many at a time, and the result can be very stressful.
Right now I have three major client projects in the works, I’m writing an ebook (due to my editor on Wednesday), and I’ve signed up [...]