3 Simple Tricks for Occupying The Kids.

Stop denying it.  You really do need to get work done.  You refuse to succumb to the working woman’s guilt about time spent away from the kids.

To help you stay true to your momtrepreneuriality and stop feeling so badly about “ignoring” your children, here are 3 useful tools:

1. The Boob Tube.

Rana Foroohar and Susan H. Greenberg, two spectacular women, reported in Newsweek that “A 2007 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research on rural India found that within six to seven months of getting cable TV, men and women alike had become more open to the idea of women’s autonomy, and more accepting of female participation in household decision making.”

If this is not proof enough that you should feel great about parking your kids in front of the TV, I don’t how else to convince you of its goodness.  Seriously.  Have them watch more TV. Read more

Teleseminar #2: Three Easy Strategies to Get More Done at Work

Terri’s back!  Check out our next teleseminar, happening next Wednesday.

Three Easy Time Management Strategies To Get More Done At Work (And Have More Time For The Rest Of Your Life) with Terri Fry Brukhartz

Wednesday, April 27
1:30 CST/2:30 EST .
It’s free. Really.
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Taxing The Entrepreneur: A Haiku

The fruits of our toil
Picked and then stolen away
Crap, if you ask me

Join This vPanel On “The Women Entrepreneurs’ Toolkit” Wednesday!

This is way, way cool.

Shift Worldwide presents vPanels, or Virtual Panels, and features a wide array of business topics for women in business. You really do have to see it to believe it.  This week’s topic?  The Women Entrepreneurs’ Toolkit for Success vPanel. RSVP HERE!

The webinar-of-sorts allows you to watch a panel of speakers, LIVE, and interact with them from your computer.  Wednesday’s chat will include discussions on:

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3 Simple Tricks to Organizing Yourself.

I am an extremely organized person.  In my head.  To you, my desk might look like a bomb hit it.  But I know where everything is, where everything needs to be, and what each item is doing in its place.  Even so, I’m constantly reading up on tips to stay organized…reading books about getting organized…watching Oprah’s Peter Walsh about getting organized…and organizing notes on organized organization in my organizationally organized organization of an office.

To help you stay much better organized than even me (whose personal slogan could be “Organized Beyond Organization”), here are 3 useful tools: Read more