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Home Based Business Annual Review – Law Office

The other day, I talked about the importance of evaluating the performance of your home – based business at least once a year. Today I am evaluating my solo law practice. I do not spend much time working at this business, yet each hour that I do spend produces a nice amount of income. It is an expensive business to maintain, though, between licensing fees, continuing legal education, and malpractice insurance. Since I am unable to devote much time to practicing law, I keep a very tiny case load of no more than two cases at a time. This is … Continue reading →

Sample Annual Review for a Home Based Business

Yesterday, I talked about the importance of evaluating your performance and the performance of your home – based business at least once a year. Since I have not evaluated my two home – based businesses yet this year, now is a good time for me to do so. Today I am evaluating my freelance writing business. It is the business that I spend the most time working at, and the business that is my primary source of income. Just so you know exactly what is being evaluated, my freelance writing business is a sole proprietorship. I work part time, between ten and … Continue reading →

“Look at Me!”

I was working from a café table in an airy coffee shop outside our local library and there was an incredibly active 3 year-old and her mother at a nearby table. The child reminded me a great deal of our newest family member, a rambunctious kitten named Toby as both were up, down, and all over the place—all the while wanting to make sure that they were being watched. The patient young mother answered reassuringly each time, “I see you” and “What a brave girl you are!” Perfect. Most of us know that our children tend to vacillate between stages … Continue reading →

What About Those Kids For Whom All The World IS a Stage?

Let’s face it, some of us are just drawn to drama, and there are definitely some kids who seem to make everything into a performance and a production. While this can be entertaining some times and add a little flare of excitement now and again—too much drama and performance can wear on a parent! What can be done when you’ve gotten lucky and have one of those very dramatic, “always performing” children? My younger sister is a professional actor, so I grew up with the cute, performing sibling. As a parent, I also lucked out and two out of my … Continue reading →

Focusing on “Performance” For Your Business

“Performance” is one of those buzz words that gets thrown around for all sorts of things—particularly in the business world. It is one of those words that gets bantered about so much, it can lose its meaning and you might be wondering how, in your little home-based business, performance really comes into play? Performance is basically how well you are executing your business operations. It might mean different things to you than it does to your customers and clients. Your customers want to know that they are getting a good product, service and value and they want to know that … Continue reading →

Why Every Child Should Have a Stage

Now, I am not talking about having your own personal theatre and raised wooden stage here. I do not think that is feasible for every family—BUT, I do think that even shy children are naturally drawn to the mysterious promises that a stage offers and having a place for some imaginative and dramatic play can be not only a good thing, but also a downright necessity. When my children were much smaller, we lived in a house with “sunken” family room. The family room had been added to the back of the house and it had a large carpeted step … Continue reading →

Fall Hazard Prompts Performance Inc. to Recall Bicycle Resistance

March 7, 2006 Release #06-107 Firm’s Recall Hotline: (800) 553-8324 CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772 CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: 2006 Performance Travel Trac Trainers Units: About 10,200 Importer: Performance Inc., of Chapel Hill, N.C. Hazard: The base of the trainer has a blocking mechanism that can break causing the bicycle to disengage from the stand, posing a fall hazard. Incidents/Injuries: Performance has received … Continue reading →