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 [...]
As with so much in my life these days, I am certain that scaling back expectations will be key to really enjoying these holidaze. It’s T minus 5 days to Christmas, my holiday to-do lists runneth over, and my elves bailed out on me at the last minute (so unreliable, those elves). We’re definitely not [...]
I’ve written and said it before: I think one of the keys to success and happiness (whether self-employed or working a job) is to ride the waves of inspiration and energy when they come, and not to sweat it when they don’t. So that’s what I’ve been up to this past couple months: not sweating [...]
I just read a post at The New York Times City Room Blog titled “Smartphones and Dumb Parents” which, as the title suggests, is a long-ish complaint about parents whose attention is on their smartphones instead of their kids. The author complains: With a so-called smartphone seemingly at every adult’s fingertips, many parents are finding [...]
If you’re at all like me, you probably feel like a broken record when catching up with friends and family. It pains me to hear myself saying for what seems like the millionth time, “Oh, we’re super busy as usual” or “Life has been nuts for the last couple months” or “The insanity never ends!” [...]
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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