As a mom working from home, I do work over the summer.  I do dial it down a little, though, as I want to spend some fun times with my son while the sun is out.  After swimming, picking berries, riding bikes and enjoying the weather, it’s time for school.  I use it as a [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ?Spark an Idea Thursday?. Each week we?ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to?grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

This year I decided to walk a half marathon.  This won’t be my first race, or half marathon, for that matter.  The difference this time is that I’m actually training for it!
I got myself a schedule to follow, so I had a roadmap to follow.  Now the confession: I haven’t done every training day.  I [...]

Today I had had it.  My home and office were on a holiday break, just like the family.  (The snow storm which grounded all of us for a week didn’t help either.) Today I decided it was time to whip everything in shape, and I dug in.
Have you been in a similar situation when you’ve [...]

This is an update to this week’s series:  7 Day Home Office Challenge
Alrighty, we’re into Day 5 of the 7 Day Home Office Challenge, and my desktop has been cleared!  Here’s my progress so far.
In Progress:

Package that is WAY overdue to ship.  
“Action” folder 

Done: 

Sort thru conference materials and paper. 
Business cards to enter into contact management. 
Stuff [...]

I’m throwin’ down! That office of mine needs some attention!
My home office desk is a disaster right now. Yeah, you heard right. *sigh* There are a few contributing factors: I was travelling last week to a conference, had a busy schedule this week and wasn’t in the office much. Now when I walk in there, [...]

Do you long to win the gold from where you are now?  What does it take to be a champion?  This is the second  post in a three part series, “Olympic Wisdom”. In the first “Olympic Wisdom” post, we took at look at goal setting from an Olympian, and in the second post we looked [...]