Water spilled on laptop = good?
October 23, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein · 1 Comment
How can spilling a glass of ice water on your laptop keyboard be a good thing? Yesterday afternoon I was shoo-ing my cat off my desk, and knocked over a glass of ice water on my MacBook Pro keyboard. I tried to clean up the mess with paper towels, but the damage was done — now the keyboard either does not work, or random keystrokes appear on the screen (in other words, it’s shorting out). So right now, my laptop is unplugged, with the battery pulled out, in drying mode. And I’m writing this blog to you on my husband’s PC desktop (ick).
Here’s what I have learned from spending the last 30 hours without my laptop. Read more
Book Review: The Now Habit by Neil Fiore Ph.D.
October 16, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein · Leave a Comment
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore, Ph.D., originally was published in 1989, so perhaps everyone besides me has already read this book … but I found it incredibly helpful in diagnosing my current procrastination problems with finishing my book and getting done some nagging stuff on my to-do list.
Mom and Women Entrepreneurs Issue #2
October 12, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein · 6 Comments
Welcome to the October 12, 2007 edition of mom and women entrepreneurs. The "blog carnival" is a collection of articles that may be helpful to mom and women entrepreners, as you start and grow your business — and blogs that cover topics you may want to read in the future.
4 Things I Learned from My Mastermind
October 11, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein · 4 Comments
Last week I went to my Mastermind group meeting, headed by Alexandria Brown — here’s a photo of the two of us in sunny Palm Springs. I absolutely love this group of smart, powerful women, all on the same path to doing amazing things in their line of work. Here’s my top take-aways from my 45 minutes in the "hot seat" and all the informal discussions before and after the meeting.
Going With the Flow
October 10, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein · 1 Comment
Tuesday morning I woke up with a passion … for cleaning out my house. Not "cleaning" per se, but sorting through and organizing all the junk and clutter that has built up in the 4 years we have lived in our home. My first thought was no, I need to work on the gigantic list of work projects and not use cleaning to procrastinate those items on my to do list. But I decided to go with my cleaning "flow" — and here’s why. Read more
