Category Archives: Work

Overwhelmed?

I woke up this morning with an anxious knot in the pit of my stomach. My thought pattern went much like this: I’m traveling to Cincinnati at the end of the week, so my mind is racing with everything that needs to happen before we leave Thursday night. There is a ton of stuff to…

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Jester Creative's New Web Site is Live

We’ve redesigned our company web site at Jester Creative Inc. It now includes clips of our television series, The House Healers, and some of the fun video and web projects we’ve been working on lately. You can get to know our great team and also check out and subscribe to the company blog. Check it…

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Hard Work Should Be Easy

I’m inspired this morning by Mitch Joel of Twist Image. In his latest blog post, “How Hard Do You Really Work?”, he mentions a line he uses when he does his public speaking events. “…most people I know are trying to make it to the weekend. I’m trying to make it.” Wow. That is a…

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To Procrastinate or to Incubate?

Thursday Bram over at lifehack.org published an interesting post today about Fake Deadlines. It’s all about how to create deadlines for yourself where none exist (eg. a client that says “just get it done whenever!”). I’m sure we all know people who say things like that. It makes it hard to get motivated and easy…

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Online Media: Community TV Comes Full Circle – Part III

In my last post on this topic, I talked about how I ended up with my first media job, working as a producer in community television. In this post I will conclude with how online media and social networking have become the new public access media. Community television in 1990 was a very different beast…

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Productivity Experiment

I have a new experiment. Starting tonight, I’ve done the following things: Unsubscribed from all unnecessary email subscriptions. Consolidated all of my email accounts into Thunderbird. Turned OFF the automatic download and notification feature. Disabled the Gmail “You have mail!” icon in my web browser. Eliminated all unnecessary icons on my Blackberry. Turned my Blackberry…

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Are you busy or productive

Love this post from 30 Sleeps. I think most people fall into the “busy” category, including myself, at times. Which are you?

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Things I have learned since starting my own business

It’s been 8 months, its seems like 3 years. We opened our doors in April, and it’s been a whirlwind since then. So much so that I’ve been very negligent at keeping up with my blog. I wanted to share some things I have learned since becoming a full time small business owner. – Don’t…

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Logged Off

I have been out of the online community loop for the past few weeks, and I’m sitting here trying to figure out why it happened. OK, so I’ve started a full time business, and yes, we’re very busy already…but is that any excuse? If anything I should be writing all the time, telling of my…

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In the Midst of Chaos…

It’s a good thing us TV producers thrive on chaos, because we got our fair dose of it today. Let’s see, where to begin…at the beginning I guess… 9am this morning, my partner and I headed off to the office. We had an important meeting at 10am so wanted to get there in time to…

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