I was reading a post over on Anne Wayman’s site on preparing invoices. One of the commenters posed the predicament of collection. He wondered aloud (and then said what he’d do) how one goes about collecting. While I love his response: “…kick his butt” it has some impractical applications in the real world. Figuratively, though,…
Better Client Contact
It rained yesterday. Just a short rain – less than an hour – but I was thrilled to see it. I can’t remember the last real rain we had. Wait – yes I do. End of May. Wow. Really? I spent the morning on a tricky client project. Usually they’re easy, but this one had…
Time Management for the Unorganized
Ah, timing is everything. I asked Anne Wayman to do another Twitter tweetup yesterday only to find out seconds before that I’d chosen the very time our President was tweeting. Nuts. I don’t know why I thought he was tweeting at 11:30. That time was stuck in my head. Oh well. Thanks to those of…
Learning to Trust Your Gut
If you’re around at 2 pm ET/11 am PT today, meet up with Anne Wayman and me for the #writingsquared tweetup! Bring questions and advice – all are welcome. Interesting day yesterday. Got a small project done, managed to stay awake long enough to get an estimate back to a client on a big project,…
Celebration and Recovery
How was your holiday weekend? How was the 4th or Canada Day for you? To paraphrase Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, the time of my life was had this weekend. It started Friday with time alone with the husband. Saturday was the farmer’s market in the morning and the pool in the afternoon. Sunday was…
Worthy Tip: Take This Job, Not That Job
Rabbit! And happy Friday to you. Good day yesterday – well, before the bad news anyway. I managed to coordinate my upcoming article interviews, work on a personal project, then clean and shop for the writers’ group (I hosted). It has been gloriously sunny, dry, and cooler (79-80) here the last two days, so I…
Monthly Assessment: June 2011
Busy morning yesterday, but the afternoon was quiet. I took advantage of it. Instead of marketing like mad (my usual routine), I spent time on personal writing projects. I was able to make good headway on a few things, which feels pretty satisfying. If only there were checks involved. Someday… It’s time for the monthly…
Kicking Down Roadblocks
Interesting day yesterday. I was hard at it contacting folks from the conference when the phone rang. The client who was supposed to give me a call actually did. On time. I’d forgotten. Very strange! That meant I answered as though I were approaching a telemarketer – an abrupt “Hello” instead of my more office-y…
Fee Schedules: Pros and Cons
Thank you all for your birthday wishes. It was a lovely day punctuated by calls from family and time spent with family nearby. That and some peaceful moments -it’s all I wanted. Despite my best intentions, I did not take yesterday off. I tried. Really. But I sat on the swing writing in my journal…
Balancing Act
Superb weekend. I spent three and a half hours in the garden Saturday morning and by noon, I was aching in places I never thought could ache. My knees were red for hours. This is all good. The garden looks spectacular and I feel grounded again. I followed that feeling up with a trip over…