Day to day

Once or twice a month, I use email to interact with a customer service rep or technical support rep from a company. I’ve sent emails about everything from my tax return software to business insurance. In about half of all cases, the email I receive from the customer service team blatantly ignores the email I […]

Entrepreneur’s blog has a great piece on how a home business makes life easier. Tax deductions, work-life balance…there are tons of reasons to have a home business. If you’re interested in those reasons and more, check out these related articles from ConsultantJournal: list of tax write offs Become a consultant – big list of reasons

Too much work? Never! Keep piling on the work, as long as the cheques are rolling in — that was my mantra when I started out in consulting. If making $12,000 in one month was good, then making more than that was even better, right? Ten years have gone by and I’m much more likely

People often ask me how I can stay motivated and actually get work done. "I couldn’t possibly work without a boss chasing after me," they say. "I’d be watching movies, shopping, going to restaurants, sleeping in — I’d never work." Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret… If you stop working and don’t

Men want more family time, according to an article on working parents in the Guardian. A survey quoted in the article suggests 70 percent of men want a 50/50 partnership. I’ve previously noted that consulting can bring work-life balance. During the course of my consulting career, I’ve run into many parents who got into freelancing

Work focus — that concentration you need to stay on task – remains vital to those working from home. To focus on your work, you need to minimize distractions. But how do you focus on work when you’re at home, with the kitchen, TV, radio, children, family, hobbies, and other important life influences around you?

I just Googled for work-life balance. Is this a Canadian term? Almost all the top results are from Canadian websites. Do only Canadians have work-life balance? Or does the rest of the world use a different term?

On any given day, most established consultants are in a position of balancing sales and work. When you look at the day ahead, how much time should you spend on finding new clients vs. doing work for the clients you already have? When you’re starting out, it makes sense to spend a lot of time

Via Canadian Entrepreneur blog, I discovered this fabulous Albert Einstein quote: "It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." That reminds me of a quote I recently read about gifted children. A study found that, if you simply tell kids they’re smart, they’ll usually seek easy tasks, so that

I first fell in love with the idea of freelancing when I was 18. My college journalism prof told me that she’d arranged her work schedule so that she could spend all day on Fridays doing freelance work. In fact, she’d arranged the rest of her workflow so that she didn’t have to be at