Work and family have eclipsed blogging (again). But I do have a new piece up on the Huffington Post about getting over your fear and loathing of building simple business systems. Here’s an excerpt: It can seem like such an insurmountable burden to develop business systems, operational policies and procedures — including finalizing them in [...]
As of late I’ve been pretty deep in a geekified wormhole evaluating various solutions and applications for streamlining my life and business organization. In a nutshell, I’m outgrowing my fairly basic systems of to-do lists, calendars, etc. which are spread across various Excel sheets, spiral-bound notebooks and emails to myself. It’s worked for me for [...]
Lots of new entrepreneurs that I meet struggle with establishing structure — both in their businesses and in their day-to-day life. Their businesses are often run without many or any clearly established processes or systems, so in many ways the business is run from the owner’s head, so to speak. If someone (including the business [...]
Yesterday I decided to pull the plug (or at least, put on a far-back burner…on low) on a project that I realized I just couldn’t do right now. This project being my next book project which I was aiming to have done by the end of the summer. The thing is that I had already [...]
I’ve always been a bit of a procrastinator (OK, perhaps more than a bit) and tend to do best when in crunch mode. I’ve long preferred to intensely focus on a project for the days or weeks it takes to get it done, rather than dutifully chipping away at it for a longer period of [...]
I’ve got to come clean and admit that family life has eclipsed work for the last couple weeks. My husband has been out of town, my little girl has had a mysterious tummy bug on and off for a week, her birthday party is tomorrow (!) and I’ve had a slew of deadlines on various [...]
When I finished my book in January, I often fantasized about the unfettered downtime I would have when I finished the book. Well, it’s been a couple months and I’m finally getting there. I totally underestimated how much damn stuff I had been ignoring for all that time, and how long it would take me [...]
Greetings! I'm Peri Pakroo, author of The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit (among others). Here at my blog you'll find business start-up and management tips, odd stuff that doesn't fit into my books, and other miscellany I come across in my self-employed life. Please comment on blog posts, and send me your questions about small business -- I'll do my best to answer them here.
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