by Mary McDonald | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Coaching, Productivity
I’ve been using calendars (and organizers, and to-do lists) for years. I’ve tried electronic and paper; web-based and not; and have found the following to be my personal preference for this: 1) Web-based if you move from machine to machine, or if you need to share...
by Mary McDonald | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Coaching
My personal forte is in project management. I chose this line of work because I really like planning. I like to see how things are going to come together. This is often a problem at home since I always avoid spur of the moment activities, while my husband is...
by Mary McDonald | May 30, 2014 | Blog, Coaching
Get Help for Less In my last post I wrote about delegation of duties. When I was starting out, and first heard about this concept, I thought, “I am barely affording Ramen noodles – and you want me to HIRE somebody??!?” Then, I found out the secret (which I’m going to...
by Mary McDonald | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Coaching
Preventing overwhelm You’ve taken the plunge into the wide world of entrepreneurship – and although it’s exhilarating, liberating, and just a tad scary, you realize (with a gulp!) that you now have to do everything – big, blue sky thinking, research,...
by Mary McDonald | May 6, 2014 | Blog, Coaching
In order to get improvement, one must change. How hard is it to change? Apparently, harder than you think. I read about it first in Michael Bungay Stanier’s great newsletter (sign up if you don’t get it now – it’s always interesting, thought provoking, and humorous)...
by Mary McDonald | Aug 25, 2008 | Blog, Coaching
Do you know anyone who blogs for blogging’s sake? They blog b/c they haven’t had a post in a while, not because they have something to say? I Freudian slipped and typed bogging, but that’s what this is, isn’t it? Bogging down our servers, our emails, our tweets with...