Business

Working in a Vacuum

February 16, 2008

I experienced the contrast of working in a vacuum and working in a group and saw that contrast very clearly. Yesterday I was brainstorming my projects and tasks related to using the GTD system and methodology. When working alone it was easy to crank out this lists of things I would like to do. However, [...]

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Slow Re-Start

February 15, 2008

Well this past week was an exercise in getting back to the flow. Back to the flow of the family life—making coffee for my wife in the morning, taking kids to school, changing diapers, making bottles, getting kids to bed, watching movies with my wife. And getting back to the flow of work—turning off vacation [...]

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Small Business (Non) Spender

January 28, 2008

Interesting post today on Dawud Miracle’s blog titled “Why you need to invest in your business.” For those people running a truly small business (less than $150,000 in gross receipts annually) spending money on non-tangible items can be a tricky game. Your marketing and promotion budget looks like the jar above. What I mean is [...]

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Taking Breaks Big And Small

January 15, 2008

Something I am not good at is taking a break from work. Any type of break–5 minutes or 5 days. On a daily basis I find myself sitting at the machine for 3 hours at a stretch without getting out of the chair. Obviously this is not good. I did get a pedometer over the [...]

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Working Globally

January 14, 2008

I have been working globally lately. Everyone has read about the “global economy” and how “outsourcing” is going to be the wake-up call to many a worker. But not everyone has felt direct impact from “outsourcing” or taken part in working the “global economy.” I too was part of that crowd until the past few [...]

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Getting Caught By Perfection

January 10, 2008

Something I am reminded of every so often is my propensity to dabble in perfectionism. I think we all do it to a certain degree it just depends on what we care about. It is in this ‘dabbling’ that I can sometimes find myself getting pulled into a time-suck–a kind of bubble of perfection. I [...]

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Measure Of Success

January 8, 2008

How do you measure your success? I am terrible at it. Personally I have a hard time believing that I’ve achieved any sort of success at all. Here are some facts: I do own my own small business I am in my third year of business Every year revenues have grown This last quarter was [...]

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Thinking About Focus

January 7, 2008

  Over the weekend I was thinking about focus and how much it matters. I’ve written about focus on this blog before. What this blog is focused on, what my company is focused on, and what I am focused on. I have found out that all of these things are focused on too many other [...]

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