This week we’ll be taking a look at all the ways you organize your office, paperwork, files and electronic data. Each day I’ll offer you some tips and resources to help you organize your office in some way. Today we will take a look at where you run your birth business.

Do you feel like you are in control of your calendar and all those things on your to-do list or are they in control of you? If you are driven by everything that has to be done each day, there’s a good chance that the systems you’re using to plan your days and keep yourself organized need to be examined and restructured. By implementing some key structures in the important areas in your life, you will find yourself moving through the day with less stress and more items on your list being crossed off.

Yesterday you went through an exercise of visualizing your life one year from now and writing down goals to help get you there. Today we’ll just talk about goal setting in general. In order to create powerful goals, think of the acronym SMARTER

If you have difficulty remembering to write down your odometer reading to keep track of miles you’ve driven for business purposes, here’s a way you can figure out how far you’ve driven and keep a record of where you go.

The best way to learn about small business is by going out and doing it. You will make mistakes, which can make your business stronger. In this post, I share lessons learned from just doing it.

Childbirth professionals build a library of resources from which to offer information to clients. Elizabeth Pantley offers a free suite of handouts that are great to give clients in the postpartum period. Learn how to get your set of articles today.

Today I’ll share the filing system that has evolved over time. It’s a loose rendition of Julie Morgenstern’s paper filing system from her book, “Organizing From The Inside Out”.

So you want to be a doula. A Savvy one at that. I’d like to offer you 5 tips to help you be taken seriously as a business owner:

I thought I’d share a list of deductible expenses today for your business. It’s by no means comprehensive, but maybe there are some items that you haven’t thought of.

Do you have a zillion ideas, a never-ending to-do list, and feel like your head is about to explode? Are you so overwhelmed with life that thinking up stuff for your business doesn’t seem possible?

Years ago I learned about “morning pages” – writing 3 pages every morning, kind of a mind dump, if you will. In my marketing mastermind with Ronnie Noize, she suggested doing morning pages each day about my business. What a great idea!