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 with me on it. Pretty good deal. You get a 8 amazing tools for only 7 bucks and I get to hear how much you love it and what you want more of.

Let’s do this!

Here’s what’s in the package:

1 ) Timers 101: How, when and why to use a timer, and when not to.

2 ) Padding and Greening Your List: Just the fuel you need to keep moving forward.

3 ) The Task Menu: Create your own tapas menu of bite sized tasks.

4 ) A Time to Worry: Make a standing appointment with worry, fret, self-pity and angst.

5 ) A Letter to the Expert: The secret to getting “the” leading expert’s advice for the very challenges you are having.

6 ) How to get Your Assistant to Do the Work for You: When the going gets emotionally tough, the tough out-source.

 7 ) It’s NOT a Starting Problem: If you’re known to say, “I’m fine once I finally get started.”

 8 ) Overwhelm: How to get instant relief from being overwhelmed.

YOURS RIGHT NOW FOR $7USD……………………….Don’t you want to know how to finish what you started?

What to do first:

Click on the big click here button and be whisked away to a quick and easy login page. Then off you’ll be sent to paypal and in minutes you’ll have full access to 8 amazing tools that will help you accomplish whatever it is you want to make happen! I mean it! It feels great to succeed. There’s nothing better than actually doing what you say you’ll do. I want you to know how that feels all the time! Right now!

Even if you’re too busy to check out the program right now I would still get it. As long as you think you can comment on the tools within a week or two, I’m fine with you grabbing this deal.

A Mother of All Days:

It took 6 months or better after my mother passed away for me not to reach for the phone only to remember, in the next instant…Oh…right, we can’t talk like that any more. I don’t see her ghost or feel her presence but she is actively communicating with me every day. And I do mean, communicate… I looked the word up in the dictionary.

The imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.
something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted.
a document or message imparting news, views, information, etc.

She’s “imparting” all the time! She’s imparted the nose on my face, gratefully just the shape, as mine’s much smaller (she had a bit of a honker). My backside…All Lois!  My love of language and drive to find my own writing voice is sustained by her. If it wasn’t for the woman who raised me to respect myself and remember “you marry who you date” I might have dated a lot more bozos.

I see the world through the mind she opened with books, and theater, travel, kindness, generosity, imagination, humor, moxie, and tolerance.

I smell a Lilac or Shalimar and she’s in the room. When I find myself in a situation where I can stand up for something or someone or shrink away, I stand, because she did. She’s in the car on a Sunday drive. If Matthew asks “what would Lois have thought of this,” I can answer him as if I were speaking her mind. He knows the mother-in-law he’s never directly met because she communicates.

Sunday is Mother’s Day and I know for some it can be a hard day if your mother, like mine, is not here to call, hug or spoil. It’s not the same. I know that. But a mother is a mother of all days, not just a Sunday in May, but every day, alive or passed away, it doesn’t matter. She is here, today, right now. In most cases, you’ll see her in the mirror, find her in your heart, your actions, convictions and thoughts.

She’ll say good morning on a cardinal’s wing.

Unless you’re experiencing a true crisis, and I know you know what a true crisis feels like, try to… lean back and laugh.

Lean way back, lean waaaay back and give that dead battery, the damn 24 hour cancellation policy and whatever pain-in-the-butt situation you have going on a “I can not believe this is happening” laugh of disbelief. Call a girlfriend if you need help getting to irony, but get there.

If there is anything you can do about the situation, tend to it. Ask for support if it’s too hot a potato to go it alone. If there’s nothing you can do, pitch a fit if needed, then laugh…Lean back and laugh. Whatever nonsense happened today, you’re still alive. We’re glad you’re here, and who knows what tasty goodness you might get to deal with next!

Did you have “one of those days” today? What about the one for the record books? Do you have a story about “one of those days” that you won’t soon forget? How I would love to hear that story! Share the insanity in the comments, exaggerate the details if you want. Exaggerating is known to stimulate the humor glands. Very good for you. Share. We could all use a good laugh! I know I could!

You could even consider it your good deed of the day by sharing your little piece of mayhem.

You might also like reading the post: Do We Need Adversity to Grow?

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, as an artist, and as a person who negotiates both a learning and a physical disability, runs parallel to my own. I wonder if we have come to similar conclusions because of those similarities or despite them?

I really do want you to take the time to watch this video. It might even change how you approach your day! I would love to hear your thoughts on it after you’ve seen it!

As seen on CBS News:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=milXH-433vs

“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 to do nothing, you’ll be thinking. Thinking is likely to lead you to a thought you want to jot down, and jotting down that thought is likely to lead to writing.

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 story. At the worst point in my life, I used substances to blanket my feelings. I understand now that I didn’t want to see that it was not my disability that was holding me back, it was my own behaviors. Not an easy pill to swallow.

Seeing how well I had screwed up my life was strangely very useful to me. If I could turn my life into a white-hot mess, I could also make it into anything else I might want it to be. Anything. And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing, creating my life! It has not been a cake walk by any stretch of the imagination, but even the most painful moments have been better than hiding out in the excuses. You can do this too, you can create whatever it is you want to make of your life. It’s not easy but it is wonderful! I hope the interview brings a bit of your own Badass to the surface.

Follow the Nag

“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. I gasped at the simple elegance. She said it was a label maker that changed mess into method. Looking at her files and projects so clear on every shelf, I thought of my junky closet stuffed with underclothes and socks and scarves in the absence of a chest of drawers. I saw my snakes’ lair of cords and cables, and my boxes and shopping bags overflowing with papers, stuff stuffed in the back of drawers and shelves to molder undisturbed.

On the way home from Taughnee’s, I bought a 6½ ” x 4″ labeler, 8″ x 13″ open-top storage boxes and packs of Paris-themed file folders. That was five years ago and my life has been prettily streamlined ever since. I can see everything I own; hidden storage is gone; daily life glides along.

I labeled the magazine boxes and lined them up on my closet shelf. I filled bins with folded scarves, undershirts, camisoles, bras, underwear, socks, hankies, belts—voilà, my non-hanging clothes life was organized. The labeler then took care of the anonymous stacked boxes, big items wrapped in plastic, place mats folded in tissue paper, all now identifiable. Notebook binders of old bank statements, insurance papers, and tax returns got labeled and lined up in a high kitchen cabinet. The label maker named my fancy file folders that were put in decorative new Banker’s Boxes. Papers found their way home easily. Cords and cables had string tags for labels.

The sun came out in my life. I started living in a pretty forest of labeled containers and file folders that gave each hard-to-see thing I owned a home with an address. I could always put my hands on what I needed in an instant. I put things away because it was easy. I was in love. I still am.

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 time your feet hit the floor in the morning until you collapse at night. Not okay. I love what I do, but if I am not careful I’ll fill every waking hour with more ProNagger work I want to do. It doesn’t work. There’s a diminishing return with that kind of behavior. Everything suffers when you put in too many hours. 

More and more people are unplugging and taking a weekly Tech Sabbath. I have started unplugging on Friday night and returning to work sometime early Sunday afternoon. The choice has been delicious. I come back to my work refreshed, excited, and ready to roll.

Are you up for taking the unplug challenge? I’m challenging you to commit to unplugging for a full 24 hours this weekend. Are you in? Tell me now because in just a few short hours I myself am going offline!

This weekend I’ll be offline for a full 3 days! Woot. I’m on my way to New York City, New York to attend my husband’s one man show at Arcadia Fine Arts Gallery. I’m bringing my cell phone (mostly to take pictures), but the computer stays home! I intend to enjoy playing in the city and basking in the joy of being the proud wife of painter Matthew W. Cornell.

So, can you do it? Can you unplug for 24 hours? I’ll tell you how my unplugged time went if you tell me about yours.