Chic Geek
To Write is Right
As a child I hated them, but as an adult I’m positively addicted to handwritten notes. You so much as hug me on a bad day or surprise me with a soy latté, and you can bet you’re getting one.
I’m a little embarrassed to admit it (and friends make fun of me for it!), but the urge to send notes overtakes me so often that during the year of my wedding prep, Mom actually asked me to stop mailing them to her.
The Other Woman
Call me obsessive, but I cannot resist the weekly urge to check the pulse of my online self. I want to know what you see when you Google any combination of Margie, Maddux and/or Newman. It’s not that I think everyone is out there Googling me, but what if they do? What if “they” is my future boss or a high school friend? I want the search results for my online self to be a good representation of my real self, and it should be the same for you.
Filter Me This
You don’t have a lot of spare time. So if you want to be your best at work and at home, you’ve got to make room for the stuff that matters. From today forward, you must filter.
Think about how much information is flooding in, fighting for your attention and emotion every waking moment. There’s junk mail, email, SPAM, telemarketers, newspapers, TV shows, field trip forms, homework to check, bills to pay, credit card offers, Facebook notifications, PDFs you can’t read on your Blackberry and ... (sigh). I mean, really!
To-Do Taskforce
According to Women’s Health, working women rank stress as their number one everyday problem. Whether the work environment is corporate, not-for-profit or stay-at-home, today’s women have a Rolodex of stress-inducing to-do’s: family to-do’s, friend to-do’s, work to-do’s, um, feminine to-do’s. You complete various tasks here and there throughout the day.
