Its Monday, and its another week in home office land. Time to band together to get stuff done!
Last week was both extremely unproductive and yet I moved mountains. I opened up the discussion on rebranding eMoms at Home, and I got an earful. I spent every waking minute on naming, branding and research. Which unfortunately [...]

As much as I love going to conferences, I have to say they are super-hard on my productivity. Thankfully Char took over Monday Motivation last week – and this week I still have a lot of catching up to do.
Speaking of which, Char threw down a reward to a Monday Motivation participant if she didn’t [...]

Each Monday, Wendy and I (along with a growing list of others) post our to-do lists, weekly goals and plans for everyone to see in a Monday Motivation post. Since Wendy is still at SxSW, she has put me in charge of Monday Motivation at eMoms today.
The secret to success today is M.O.M. or Motivation, [...]

Some of you may remember the Monday just about a month ago when I couldn’t bring myself to put up a Monday Motivation post – because my laptop had just died and I was in panic mode. I thought I had lost almost everything – but thanks to Jon, I was able to remove my [...]

Usually when I do Monday Motivation, I throw down some leverage to hold myself accountable to get through my to-do list. Whenever I put a reward in place for these lists, I seem to let it fall to the wayside. But if I have some consequences in place, I know I’ll get scared by the [...]

I love Chicago. At nearly all times of the year, there are exciting, interesting & beautiful things to do all over the area.
Except for February.
Living in Chicago SUCKS in February. It’s snowy, dirty, dark, miserable, and *everyone* has cabin fever as we long for spring. Just about the only thing to do in Chicago in [...]

I think it’s safe to say I’m pretty dang good at getting motivated and helping other people to feel motivated. I have to admit to you, though, that being super-disciplined is NOT one of my strengths, and I have to work at it – a lot. I’ll even go so far to say that I [...]