My friend and mentor Kelly McCausey has always (well, as long as I've known her, anyway) begun each year by deciding on a theme. Her theme becomes the guide in every choice she makes for her business, kind of like a business plan, but not as dry. This year I'm going to do the same. My theme is focus. There are just too many distractions in my life. Email, blogs to read, comments to respond to, Twitter links to click, text messages, phone calls, and oh yeah, the dog wants to go out. Yikes! Talk about a lot of stuff pulling my concentration away from my work! So there are some new rules … [Read more...]
After nearly three years of working on my small business while still holding down a demanding day job, I was finally able to make the move to Self-Employment.