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the importance of under-scheduling
I get stressed out easily. I wish it wasn’t so, but that’s the temperament I was born with. I also tend to try to do too much and bite off more than I can chew. These two qualities make perfect ingredients for a bi-weekly freak-out cocktail. When I over-schedule myself and think that I can [...]
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Eleanor Mayrhofer is a recent escapee of Cubicle Nation. She currently blends her love of design, the expertise she gained in her professional career and her enthusiasm for small enterprise through e.m.papers, her download-and-print stationery business.
low level planning: a few final points
In closing out the section on low level planning, the final few points I’d like to make touch on being specific when calendaring in your activities, making sure to look at your plan every day, creating a plan that allows for flexibility, and setting it up at the beginning of the week. Be specific – [...]
About the Author
Eleanor Mayrhofer is a recent escapee of Cubicle Nation. She currently blends her love of design, the expertise she gained in her professional career and her enthusiasm for small enterprise through e.m.papers, her download-and-print stationery business.
Low Level Planning: Baseline Activities, Estimates and Metrics
Today I’ll expand on a couple of items I called out when we kicked off the low-level planning discussion: Planning Baseline Activities as well as Estimates and Metrics What do I mean by ‘baseline activities’? Things you do regularly both work and life related: checking email, cooking dinner, exercising, sending out orders, writing a weekly [...]
About the Author
Eleanor Mayrhofer is a recent escapee of Cubicle Nation. She currently blends her love of design, the expertise she gained in her professional career and her enthusiasm for small enterprise through e.m.papers, her download-and-print stationery business.
Low Level Planning – Use a Calendar tool
In my last post one of the best practices I listed was to plan with some sort of calendar tool (this can be paper). This is helpful because at this detailed level of planning it really helps to be able to see your activities and tasks plotted out against not only the day, but ideally [...]
About the Author
Eleanor Mayrhofer is a recent escapee of Cubicle Nation. She currently blends her love of design, the expertise she gained in her professional career and her enthusiasm for small enterprise through e.m.papers, her download-and-print stationery business.
Tooling Around: How do you get your to-dos done?
Before I launched Never a Plain Jane Designs I had a series of corporate jobs: Bookkeeper, Business Assistant, Legal Assistant… I also spent some time with the title “College Student.” All of these have something in common: a job description. Ahhhh, life with a job description was so easy. Perhaps not challenging or fun, but [...]
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Janice Bear designs unique garters (for offbeat brides, burlesque, Tuesdays…) because she believes everything you wear should be a reflection of you – right down to your underpinnings. To learn more about what she does and why she does it, please visit her blog.
