Most people in business have probably experienced the mad dash of client requests when they hear you are taking holidays. When you run your own business, you have the added bonus of ensuring that ongoing work remains ongoing, people have the explanations they need to get one with things and enough blog posts etc have…
In any small business, getting paid on time is a mighty challenge. As I write this, we have 3 clients between 35 and 90 days late on payments. We have worked a lot in the past few years to look for deposits, monthly payment structures etc. But for some of our clients even when they…
Mastering new tools for work will happen regularly for most of us today. I often try out new tools to see if they could be beneficial to me and if I like what they do, I will take on the challenge of mastering the new tool. For some tools this is a quick and easy…
Pattern interrupts can be simple events that interrupt what we were doing and get us to focus on something else entirely. Imagine you are having a conversation in a noisy coffee shop and all of a sudden somebody drops their tray. The noise level in the coffee shop will take a nosedive, some may scream…
Maybe it is my marketing training that has me tracking all things business related, but then I already created all sorts of fun trackers as a kid. I wonder sometimes if it is just me or whether more people work like this? Do feel free to comment and let me know what you are tracking…