Tuesday May 15 and Wednesday May 16th ONLY… 8 Sure Fire Ways to Finish What You Started. I’ve bundled EIGHT Nag tools into this one package! I’m offering the bundle for two days, at almost nothing, so we can support one another. I would like you to buy it, try it and share your thoughts [...]
A Mother of All Days
As a professional Nag, it’s my job to help you deal with difficult days. For some, Sunday, Mother’s Day, can be one of those days. Not for typical nag-related reasons, but a challenge all the same. I didn’t want to write such a personal post, but this morning I saw a cardinal in the yard [...]
ARE YOU HAVING “ONE OF THOSE DAYS?”
Are you having “one of those days?” You know what I’m talking about. The upstairs toilet explodes. Explodes! Literally explodes. Two steps forward, dozens back; the battery won’t even take a jump which makes you too late for the appointment you’ll be charged for because you didn’t give a 24 hour notice of cancellation…As if [...]
“Artist Chuck Close writes a note to younger self”
I want all my clients to see this video! As an artist, I have admired Chuck Close for a long time. Here he has gracefully put into words what I attempt to find language for every day. What he addresses in the video hits at the core of my philosophy and the ProNagger methodology. His life, [...]
THE Best Writing Trick Revealed
THE Best Writing Trick Revealed: “Show up” 1. Put yourself in front of your writing. 2. Eliminate distractions (use macfreedom.com to block Internet access) and just wait. 3. Don’t eat, read, or even fidget. 4. For 30 minutes, you can do one of two things. 1. Nothing whatsoever, or 2. Write. Even if you choose [...]
If Johnny B. Truant Thinks I’m a Badass, It Must be True
Johnny B. Truant, the big brain behind The Internet Made Awesome, and frequent guest blogger for A-list sites like Copyblogger, IttyBiz, Problogger, and Project Mojave, recently interviewed me for his Badass Project. Check out our conversation and visit the project’s site, a place about living without excuses. I am still not completely comfortable sharing my [...]
How a label maker changed one woman’s life
My Labeler, My Love - a guest post by Kay Vreeland “People can last a day or two without food and water, but no one can live without a label maker!” – Adam Glassman in the Declutter issue of O Magazine, March 2012 My creative website-designer friend, Taughnee showed me her home office one day, a model of ornamental organization. [...]
The #1 sure fire way to love what you do
The #1 sure fire way to love what you do is to take some time off! Better still…Unplug! I tell clients all the time that it’s as important to have time off as it is to work hard. For many of you, me included, work doesn’t necessarily have a fixed schedule. You could work from [...]
The #1 Sure-Fire Way to Stop Mental Drift
Fun and Easy Tricks to Beat Perfectionism was the first in a series of posts about using your timer as a productivity tool. If you’re easily distracted, read on, this post’s for you. Here are the rules for this ProNagger ProDuctivity game, ”Mental Drift.” Start by setting your timer for 15 minutes. During this time you have to [...]
Fun and Easy Tricks to Beat Perfectionism
In the last post, It’s National Procrastination Week, I mentioned I would “discuss what you might want to keep on hand to relieve the symptoms of perfectionism (aka fear)…” Nothing cuts perfectionism down to size more than a timer, so we start there. If you have a smart phone, you have a timer. Use it. (If you don’t have easy [...]
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