RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

How to: Winterizing your Cottage

It's a grey and chilly morning here at home, and my thoughts wander to the cottage a 1.5 hr drive north. Time to plan the winterizing activities. Each cottage has it's own requirements depending upon how complex it's design (on or off the electrical grid, insulated or not, running water, etc.).

Here are some links to great info and checklists to help you get organized and remember everything:

Winterizing your plumbing

Closing up the cottage

BizTip: Motivating your employee (Consultant, Independent Rep., Recruit)

I received this wonderful tip from Mike Michalowicz this morning about motivating employees. His experience shows that it starts with their 1st day on the job.

If you're like me, you'll remember a first day with a pile of HR paperwork, sitting in a cubicle reading boring procedures or program objectives, trying to remember the floor plan from the brief tour someone gave you before they headed off for their far-away office, and feeling left out eating alone at lunch.

Then you go home and answer the inevitable "How was your first day?".

And that's the key.

Click here to read Mike's solution for employee motivation that is SO simple, and it produces a most amazing result. And it's not the dangling carrot technique!

New Hostess Benefits Announced!

With the release of the new Tomboy Tools Product Catalogue I am thrilled to share some exciting changes to the Hostess Benefits!

How does MORE sound????

· All kits are now available at $500.00 in total party sales – this includes the PINK SUPER STEPPER! Please note all kits must be different. If a hostess has earned 2 kits they must choose 2 different kits.

· At $500.00 in total party sales the qualifying hostess will receive FREE SHIPPING on her individual order regardless of her total purchases. All customers and hostesses will continue to receive free shipping on individual orders of $251.00 or more.

· At $500.00 in total party sales every qualifying hostess will receive a VIH “VERY IMPORTANT HOSTESS” Card. This card will entitle your hostesses to an additional 10% off all future orders for the next calendar year. Hostesses will receive their VIH Card with their qualifying party order. The VIH Card will included the Tomboy Consultants’ contact information and are individually numbered. When submitting party orders simply enter the VIH Card number in the space provided on the “Enter Customer Orders” Page and 10% will be taken off her regular retail total. Your commission will be calculated on the discounted amount.

All changes will be effective September 13, 2010.

Contact me and I'll schedule your Tool Party so you can reap the rewards!

Great Tool: Track your home improvements, records, and more!

You know all that info that seems to be filed in so many places, like your insurance, repairs, warranties, seasonal work to be done, home improvements you're dreaming about.... Yeah. If you're like me, you have some of it filed in a folder, maybe in a cabinet or a box, and maybe updates are in a pile to be filed, and then there are ideas and to-do lists scattered here and there. And then SURPRISE, something happens - and you jump into action, grab the file folder and wonder if the latest info is what you're looking at.

So far, this is one of the very few books I can find that will help you get all your info into one very handy spot:


Stay tuned: I'm also reviewing an online application that let's you do the same thing, electronically (which would be another great tool because in the worst case scenario - when you can't get into your home - you can still get the info if you've got access to the internet).

Question on my mind: How organized are you with this kind of info? And if you had a great tool to pull it together, would you do it? Please post your comments below.