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Where are you the most productive? Do you find that your productivity is often based on the time of day and on your location? I know I get a lot more done in the quiet of my mountain escape than I do in the crazy energy of Atlanta! In Atlanta my schedule is more often loaded with sourcing for clients, site visits, speaking engagements, airport trips, and catching up with friends (oh and YES, dating, LOL). So I plan five day stays here in Highlands to get it all on track and moving forward. How can you plan your most productive times and emerge successful?

Mapping fun! This is my YEAR of YES, and that means I have to make a lot more time for my dream list. I'm planning a visit to Connecticut in May to see dear friends and then a trip to Bonaire for scuba certification and to see the house I did a few years ago for clients. They both scuba and train, but I've never seen the house! Rumor has it the neighbors and friends have given it rave reviews. What are you doing to plan regular fun in your life?

Heading into Hotlanta this Saturday! Got a date Saturday night (yes, we met on match.com and this is our first face to face!) Sunday, I'm meeting a friend for the last day of the Flower Show and brunch at Canoe. I've got client biz on Monday, then Tuesday reconnecting with my favorite design group for lunch and a look at Insidesign, http://www.myinsidesign.com/.

What are you doing to find new resources?

Together we'll all go farther! Prospering by Design, Are You?

Melissa Galt
The Six Figure Design Professional
Your Interior Design Business Systems Specialist
Devoted to Your Design Business Success

The Only Key You Need to Success!

I have to say I do get a grin from folks that say they want something different than what they have. They say they want success, they want financial security, they want good clients, they want a happy family, they want time with friends, they want, they want, they want. Yes they have forgotten that to get it they have to CHANGE!

In order to get what we want we must be willing to do things differently or we will keep getting what we've always gotten. To do something differently means to CHANGE! In a conversation just today, I was sharing a method of doing business that was foreign to a designer and when I said she'd need to change, she said "it's hard." I didn't say it would be easy. I've done and will continue to do lots of "hard" things in my life. I have a choice, we all do. We can be lazy and do it as we've always done it and be dissatisfied with the results. Or we can step up and look for new and better ways and CHANGE our old ways. CHANGE is often only painful in the beginning because it is unfamiliar. Once we get used to a new method and see the new payoff, we embrace the CHANGE! (And sometimes wonder why we didn't do it sooner.)

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Forging Relationships, Beyond Idle Connections

In the last week or so I've had a couple of interesting online experiences. On Facebook two individuals have emailed me asking for more than just an idle connection. So many of us get caught up in the numbers racket of connecting, growing our friend lists to new and sometimes stratospheric heights, but do we really know many of the folks on our lists? In our circles? Oh sure, you recognize a few faces but often many others are there because of a friend that follows you or someone recommended you. You don't really know who they are, and they don't really know who you are.

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How Do They Do That?

Click below and she (or he) will say anything you type.

Oddcast Text-To-Speech Demos

I sure don't know how they do this. When you move the mouse around on her picture, her eyes follow the pointer. When you write something in the left space ... and then click on "Say It" ... she says it! You can also change the person doing the talking (and the language they speak)!!

Quite amazing technology!

The fun part is that our guest of this week, Jennifer Haubein, with Best Biz Website Solutions offers this technology in website designs!
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