Shoeboxed just verified that we shop local, how nice. We use Shoeboxed to send our receipts in to Outright.com. Outright is an online accounting program for sole proprietors or LLCs that are acting as a disregarded entitiy, basically people who file a schedule C. It helps you stay on top of your taxes. This system working together has made my life so much easier. Check out thow they work together here.

I've been attending the "Waking Up the Workplace" webinar series over the past few weeks. It has confirmed what I know to be true. If you allow a space for your staff to be fully who they are, they will be more dynamic, whole, and healthy. Oddly enough companies that allow their employees to be authentic dramatically outperform their competitors. *Source:  Firms of Endearment: The Pursuit of Purpose and Profit by Wolfe,  Sisodia & Sheth, 2007

Globally the world is becoming a...

Author, Tony Schwartz, who wrote, “The Way We Are Working Isn’t Working” said it best in a webinar I attended last week, “Technology is ahead of our ability to manage it.” Herbert Simon said  “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” I could not agree with them more. There are so many things that fractionate our attention these days: instant messages, social media, SMS messages, and email. We are living in a world of urgency and it is stressing us out and overloading us....