Small Business Essentials

I was recently linked to a video of Merlin Mann’s GTD way of going through his e-mail inbox. If you don’t have a whole hour to watch it (who does?), let me help you out by summarizing what I found to be the most important points worth knowing — and what strategies I found useful in going through my own backlog of e-mail.

I’ve been going through a lot of life changes recently, and this state of flux has created some bad habits for me. I get like this when my life gets too busy or I have a lot of projects going on that are particularly draining. So what do you do when this happens? I’ve basically [...]

We are now into the third January of my business, which will mark the third year in a row that I did not sit down to establish business goals. I will tell you exactly why: I am a big giant chicken. (Cluck! Cluck!) In my perfectionist brain, I just tell myself that if I don’t [...]

Everyone has those brain fart moments, when you need to complete something but your mind is just drawing a blank. To help you through those times, I’ve come up with this list of ideas for getting unstuck: