Art Marketing Action: Trick and Treat Yourself

If you’ve been procrastinating something, identify it. After you’ve confessed, you can trick yourself into completing it and getting it off your mind. Of course, your tricks can be followed by treats. [...]

Art Marketing Action: Prepare for the holidays

It’s time to make some decisions about the holidays. The first big decision: Will you send holiday cards or not? Here are some pointers to get you started so you’re not frantically throwing them together at the last minute. [...]

Clean out for spring

It’s spring! And we’re emerging from hibernation here in the Northern Hemisphere. We’ve been cooped up for months and may be a little weary of our surroundings. It’s the perfect time to shed the weight. Not THAT weight. The weight of things . . . of junk. It’s time for spring cleaning. [...]

Big dreams, big plans

I’m finishing up Christine Kane’s Great Big Dreams retreat in the mountains north of Asheville, NC. Tonight, I’m back at home and getting ready for a big week. And I can’t believe it’s October!

The Get Organized class starts with a kickoff call Tuesday night, and then the INSIGHTS series begins on Thursday night with an interview with Evon Zerbetz. Oh, yeah, and then I head into the mountains next weekend for a book party in Carbondale, CO. With all of this going on, it’s imperative to be organized. I’m no busier than anyone else, but I’m learning to schedule my time more effectively. I’ve learned so much from my productivity consultant, and I’m lucky to have the help of able assistants.

I have a long way to go–especially with my electronic files. Anyone else would have looked at them before and thought they were organized. But data comes in so fast that I couldn’t [...]