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Archive for the ‘Work-Life Balance’ Category

June 19th, 2008

Great Blog Off Tip #3: Fight the Urge to Accept Free or Cheap Subscription Add-Ons

Are you noticing a theme here? I want you to reduce the amount of paper coming into your home and workspace. Who cares if you can get 25 years of Marie Clare for $.50? If you’re not going to read it, it’s not a great deal. You’re paying for something you wouldn’t other wise purchase […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

June 19th, 2008

Great Blog Off Tip #2: Cancel Magazine Subscriptions

Be honest: Do you really read all of the publications that come to your home or office every week or month? I know I don’t! Take stock of your subscriptions and see which ones you can cancel without feeling totally deprived. For me, it was The New Yorker. I love it, but I just do […]

By Kristen King -- 3 comments

June 19th, 2008

Great Blog Off Tip #1: Ditch Magazines and Newspapers

Yeah, you heard me: Toss them. Once you’re finished reading the daily paper, put it straight into the recycling bin to keep mountains of newsprint from piling up on your coffee table or in your office.
Same with magazines. If there’s an article you particularly want to save, tear it out and toss the rest. I […]

By Kristen King -- 3 comments

May 4th, 2008

3 Tips On Balancing Acts For Business Women

If you are in business, self-employed or the corporate world, you know all too well how much of a challenge it is to balance both work and home life. Something always goes wrong or gives in.
My challenge is juggling multiple projects at once with juggling multiple kids at the same time. I try to keep […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments

April 16th, 2008

Don’t Answer That Call!

[photo: google.com images]
When you’re a busy professional, you have very little time for non-essential things like funny emails, water cooler chit chat and the most annoying of all - trivial phone calls! There are time when I have been bombarded with “emergency” phone calls from friends and family who thought that maybe I’d really like […]

By Bridget Wright -- 2 comments

April 4th, 2008

Women in Business Balancing Family and Career

There is something interesting about women who are in business, whether it’s for themselves or whether it’s in Corporate America.
They are all trying to balance both a career and family.
Whether they have four children, a dog and two cats, or whether it was just them and a parakeet, women have always had the challenge […]

By Bridget Wright -- 0 comments

February 10th, 2008

Guest Article: Restless Brain Syndrome, or Breaking Up With My Freelance Career

by CJ
In college, I was more interested in boys and partying than in preparing myself for a career, so it should have been no surprise when, on graduation day, I hadn’t a clue what to do next. I floundered for a couple of months (and yes, I moved back home with my parents) and then […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

February 2nd, 2008

What Business Owners Can Learn from Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, and Tom Brady

I posted about this over at Lively Women in regard to women’s health, but I also wanted to put a business spin on things.
There’s something about an attractive, charismatic player that gets non-football fans interested in football, and Tom Brady and the Manning brothers are prime examples. From Family Guy to Saturday Night Live […]

By Kristen King -- 4 comments

January 24th, 2008

Quota Schmota: Why Race- and Sex-Based Hiring Guidelines Are NOT the Answer

I gotta be honest here. No matter how many times you tell me that affirmative action and quotas in hiring and school admissions are a good idea, I will never agree. “But aren’t you for equality?” Of course I am. “Don’t you want things to be fair?” Well, yeah, duh. But the only way […]

By Kristen King -- 7 comments

January 9th, 2008

When Your Business Depends on the Internet

Note: This was supposed to go up yesterday, but the connectivity problems I mentioned prevented me from posting it. Apologies!
Over the last 2 days, I’ve had serious Internet problems, which kept me from posting, from staying in contact with people I’d promised to reach, and from working on the projects that are sitting on my […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment