Independent Creatives:

Are the day-to-day tasks necessary to running your business overtaking its true focus and purpose?

You’ve been in business long enough to know that there is more to its success than doing whatever you set out to offer your clients or customers. There is marketing and filing, research and errands, contracts and bookkeeping, and an inbox endlessly full of email – among many other tasks on your to-do list. You know it all has to be done to keep your business running smoothly (in fact, to keep it running at all), but it has begun to feel an overwhelming struggle.

Do your efforts to “get organized” feel in conflict with your character?

After all, it is your profession that is your talent and expertise, not managing administrative details. You’ve tried your best to stay on top of it all, but things are starting to fall through the cracks. Perhaps you have even come to resent those tasks that keep you from doing the work you most enjoy. Maybe working for yourself hasn’t turned out to be as much fun as you thought it would be.

If you are someone for whom conventional checklists and filing systems don’t feel natural, there are solutions.

You may be “right-brained,” but that is no reason you can’t learn simple, effective ways of managing and organizing your time, tasks and information that are comfortable and easy to use.

You’ve already laid a strong foundation or you wouldn’t have made it this far. Now it’s time to build customized support structures, or reinforce existing ones, so your business (and you!) won’t crack or crumble altogether as it grows. Built with care – and well-suited to your individual style – good support structures are resilient, flexible, and ultimately liberating rather than constricting.

You can be successful in business and still be yourself.

With the proper skills, systems and support in place (not based on advice from the latest self-help bestseller, but the ones that really work for you), you and your business will flow.

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Cairene MacDonald
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