I’ve dipped into the New Leaf News archives to share a few posts that still seem as fresh and relevant today as they did in Octobers past. In case you missed them the first time around, here they come again! I’m still using mind-mapping as a technique to organize and view more information than…
Category Archives: Project Management
Need a Net Nanny? Rescue Time Provides the Loving Discipline.
How do you waste time at your computer? Are you an obsessive email-checker? Do you while away hours playing solitaire or backgammon? Are your achievements in Farmville and Mafia Wars huge compared to your achievements in the real world? Are you a connoisseur of funny pet videos on YouTube? With temptation never more than one…
How I interviewed a virtual assistant for my team
I’ve written before about virtual assistants and how having a partner — someone who has skills to complement yours, who owns their own business assisting others, and who works from their own office — can be a boon to solo entrepreneurs. After wasting more hours last year than I like to admit by trying to…
Recipe for productivity
Like a featured recipe in a cooking magazine, productivity has many ingredients. Some are obvious (oh, there’s beef in the beef stew!) while some are subtle (who knew that excellent doughnuts actually require a whisper of nutmeg??) We can leave something out, we can make substitutions, but the dish won’t achieve the same heights without…
The Virtues of Virtual Assistance
by Margaret Lukens, New Leaf + Company LLC Word is spreading rapidly about virtual assistants, often known as VA’s – assistants who work from their office, not yours, to give you help with the projects and tasks you need to delegate. I sometimes suggest that my small-business clients consider using an assistant – either virtual…
Following Through: Just Show Up
by Margaret Lukens, New Leaf + Company LLC A lot of people want to write a book. Maybe you are one of them. I spoke with a would-be author recently. She had begun her first book, determined to produce a sample chapter that would dazzle the publishers, who would waltz her across the dance floor…