I can make an animated GIF
by Peri on May 31st, 2012
I’m working up my interview with artist Alexandra Gjurasic about her Kickstarter campaign, and I just don’t want to give it short shrift.
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How to change your vision
by Peri on May 10th, 2012
With some things, to do them well, you need to be relaxed. And I think thinking is one of those things.
How to shift gears
by Peri on May 7th, 2012
The freedom of self-employment is great, but it comes with the need to make smart decisions about how to use your time.
Child Care Expenses: Deductible?
by Peri on April 9th, 2012
Costs of day care are not considered “ordinary and necessary” expenses of running a business and are thus not deductible business expenses.
Roping the kids into a meditation practice
by Peri on March 27th, 2012
Tomorrow I’m doing a little presentation to my daughter’s preschool class on meditation. Last year I cobbled together a draft plan and put out some feelers to get some sort of family meditation drop-in thing going at the school (actually, more likely over at The Harwood next to the school) but it never really took [...]
10 years of working for…ME!
by Peri on October 5th, 2011
Ten years ago today I parted ways with the last job I’ve ever held as an employee. Since then I’ve juggled a crazy mix of clients and projects (a mix that happily has grown much more focused over the years); written three books; got married to my best friend; had two insanely awesome kids; escaped [...]
New Huff Po piece: Systematize one process at a time
by Peri on June 21st, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in: Time management, Work/life balance
The quest for technology that works (for me)
by Peri on April 13th, 2011
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 [...]
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Free spirits shouldn’t fear a little structure
by Peri on March 21st, 2011
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 [...]
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Spring fever and changing course (a.k.a. failing)
by Peri on March 10th, 2011
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 [...]
