Are Social Networking Tools time and energy suckers or do they give you measurable results? People who use them well swear by them. There are several types: Social Groups such as FaceBook and LinkIn Bogging on WordPress, Blogger etc Micro Blogging like Twitter All of these are tools which means you should have a strategy […]
What project would be the best use of your time to get you to your goals? If your goal is to travel the world. What is the next thing you have to do to begin traveling? That will depend upon where you are on your path. For some people it might mean getting themselves to […]
It makes sense to work to your strengths, but how do you figure out what they are? You know you are working to your strengths when you feel energized, excited and happy doing a task. What were you doing the last time you felt like that? Break down the job into […]
There are 4 acknowledged pillars of business: marketing, production, human resources and finance. The theory is, if you can master each of them separately, you will have a successful business. Let’s look at this a different way. What if they are inter-related and the goal isn’t to master each separately, but to master the relationships […]
Hot off the blogoshere presses: a new magazine. Gathering the best of the productivity bloggers offering their best in productivity tips. This is Stress-Less month, here at BOSC. This magazine will help you do that. There are articles on happiness at work, Getting Things Done, Zen to Done and many others.
Productive time is spent building your business, marketing and working on billable tasks. Super productive time is spent creating systems that will bring you money and do your marketing without you having to be there. For instance you can bake pies for your shop, or you can hire and train others to do […]
“We didn’t get the house tea blend with this shipment and we’re almost out.” Mary had reluctantly interrupted our meeting. She knew that Joanne held our pow wow sessions as inviolable, but she also knew that a Tea House without tea wasn’t good either. Joanne excused herself to straighten out the situation. She was back […]
You’ve heard of Maslow’s Heirarchy of needs, right? The same concept applies to business. You start by established your product/service, your marketing, your staff and all those other things that make your business work. Then you get a sense of security, knowing that it will all carry on again next week. The sense of […]
I live and breathe bookkeeping. Accounting is almost my first language – my first year english professor at Dal was convinced English was not my first language, and maybe he’s right. Not everyone does. A large component of my business is training people how to do their bookkeeping. But, I also I hear from people […]
It’s a storm day around here today. The kids are off school. My day’s appointments are canceled. I have a free day. I’m using it to do some of the fun tasks I like to do once in a while. When you lose a day from your schedule this way, you find a way to […]
