Project Simplify began with the services of Professional Organizing–i.e. coming in to help you figure out what stays, what goes, and what should go where. That evolved into the niche of self-employed, home office folks and thus dealing mostly with information management. For many people, managing information is confusing and contributes to crazy amounts of [...]
If you’ve never crafted a 30-second elevator speech you may not appreciate the challenging process the self-employed go through to create one. [If "elevator speech" is a new term for you, just imagine you found yourself in an elevator with a rich and famous person who is also your ideal client. You have 30 seconds [...]
Talking with an artist friend the other day, the subject of social media came up. After listing all the outlets she “needed” to get up to speed on: a facebook fan page, Twitter, podcasts, videocasts, blogging, etc. she looked about ready to throw it all out the window. “It’s overwhelming!” she lamented. It is a [...]
Do you know how sometimes you just know that it’s the right time for something? It may have been fomenting and formulating for a while. And then at some point you just know, it’s time. That’s how I feel about the Natural Professional. 2010 is the year to get out and groove! It’s been popping [...]
Looking forward to my conversation with Colleen yesterday has transformed into gratitude for her pointed ability to cut the crap today. I requested an appointment to help unravel a knot I was feeling in the area of developing the Natural Professional identity. What a perfect conversation we had that got me pointed back to the [...]
The time has come. It’s been many moons since the seed of weaning off the Microsoft Suite settled on the soils of my mind. The biggest challenge by far is Entourage, the program I’ve been using for email, schedule, contacts, long term notes, and ToDos**. [**side note: the Task manager is used sporadically. I still [...]
Good morning, Monday! The week has barely begun and there’s already two things to report. report #1 I finally heard back from Mr. Agent who took The Natural Professional book proposal to the Frankfurt Book Fair. He reports back that it “created some interest among publishers”. Who knows. It’d be cool if it got picked [...]
