So for 2012, it’s quarter time. The first three months are done and it’s time to assess where things are at. Of course for most businesses, it means there’s only one quarter left in the financial year. As seasons change and lurgies fly around workplaces everywhere,...

A guy goes to an airline counter and checks in for his flight. He asks if one of his bags can be sent to Melbourne and the other one to Perth.  Definitely not, is the answer. “Why not,” he asks – “you did that for me last week”. Okay, so maybe it’s a joke, but it was...

Last year, after being overwhelmed by global happenings, I made a decision - what if I decided to change that? What impact might that have on my life? In order to find out, I created Grateful in April, a m.a.d.woman initiative to get people focused on what’s already...

I forgot to write my blog post this week. Yup.  Forgot. It’s a permanent item on my To Do list but somehow it slipped through. It was “one of those weeks”, if you know what I mean. Here’s the thing. We all have “those weeks” at some time or another, where *stuff*...

Turns out spreading yourself too thin can actually cause you to become, well, the opposite of thin... I recently discovered a horrifying side effect of being extremely busy. Like many business owners, I was spending long days in front of the computer, lots of time on...

When running your own business it can be so difficult to juggle work and major life changes without dropping the ball. Here a great example of how to handle a major event while maintaining a business. My amazing virtual assistant (who has a dozen clients) recently...

With the busy lives that we lead it can be so easy to fall into the trap of going hell for leather at work and simply not paying complete attention to what we are doing. Here’s an example of what can happen when you don’t concentrate properly when replying to emails...

How do you come up with something new to write about frequently enough to build a successful blog? As blogs become more common, so too does the problem of blogger’s block: that awkward moment when you feel as though you’ve run out of things to say. Coming up with...

Ever had your car, house or store broken into? I’ve recently had the online equivalent. I’ve had someone break into my website causing my email to be disabled and disrupting things for a couple of days and I’m finding myself hacked off by hackers. And for what end? A...