From The C-Sweet

What Do You Do?

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

5:35 PM

This is the first in my series of articles under the general theme of “My Business is Growing! I Can’t Do it All Myself Anymore!”

Having had the privilege of working for one of the world’s premiere accounting & consulting firms for a decade or so, I realized in looking to serve established independent business owners in my community in what I’ll call the 2nd…

Small Biz Employment DOWN in May

WHAAAAT!? Believe it, it’s true. Overall, private company payrolls actually grew overall by 27,000 in May, according to data released today by ADP and Moody’s Analytics. The increase was far smaller than Wall Street had projected due to companies with 50 employees or less experiencing job losses last month.

What’s in the Numbers?

That’s right, private sector small business…

Homebuilder, Are You Lo$ing Money?

If you’re losing people, you’re losing money.

The rule of thumb on turnover cost in the construction industry is 16%-20% of annual salary. So when your $75,0000 project manager walked, that cost $15,000. How so, you say?

Here’s a rundown of the costs associated with employee turnover:

Photo by Vladimir Solomyani on Unsplash

Separation Costs– exit interviews, severance pay, higher…

The One & Only Post for 2018

I’ve got to be honest here. I’ve been an on-again, off-again blogger for 12 years. No kidding, 2 years of random rants and raves I’ve sent off into the blogosphere for all eternity. No so much life changing for anyone but fun for me sometimes.

Not one to leave unfinished business I decided to hop on here today to tidy things up as I move into the rebranding and new website for my consulting…

The Queen is Back

and I don’t mean that in an arrogant way…I mean that I, as the Queen of my own Universe, Mistress of my own Destiny, Painter of my own Canvas….am fully back, present, ready to make things happen.

  In previous posts I talked about the end to “Extreme Cocooning” and the “Glass Cocoon”  the latter being when you tell yourself you’ve emerged but you’re really only half awake and still locked in…

Meditation Monday – Affirmations

After listening to my February 13, 2017 Daily Focus message (Tarot by Tilly on YouTube) I felt moved to do an Energy Oracle card reading for myself.  First lighting a candle, gathering some crystals, and channeling the archangels and other spirit guides–

Crystals for Today:  Malachite, Sodalite, Turquoise, Selenite

Archangels: Raphael, Gabriel, Jeremiel, Zadkiel, Sadalphon, Haniel & Michael

Sprea…

How This Thing Started

My good and dear and besty, bestest friend Annette has lately been spending considerable time going through old photos and other memorabilia. Given our extensive history together let’s just say she’s unearthing some rather choice items from her archives.  Annette has the very best sense of humor and she likes to share…

The Photo in Question

It’s from her wedding.  I could pinpoint the year for you but let’s just call it the height of “The 80’s” which you will see from this photo taken just before the ceremony started…

  The Note (Verbatim)

“Sweetie,  Not sure what there is to say about this photo except that we don’t want it to get into the wrong hands.  (I seem to remember you saying that you were giving your daughter fashion advice.  Don’t get me wrong, you look lovely.  It’s the hair.) ♥ A”

Annette’s cute, isn’t she?

The Hair

I have to admit my first inclination when I saw this photo was to call up my cousin Susan, who used to style my hair, and ask her what she had on her mind at that time-to send me out into the world with my permed hair that BIG!  and that DARK!?!  But wait, this gets better.  Please understand that that sweet Annette had just had cataract surgeries and so her vision was a bit, how to put it nicely? …Off?  Yess.  Off.

The Ensuing Text Exchange

Wedding Photo Text 1

Wedding Photo Text 2

Wedding Photo Text 3

Wedding Photo Text 4

    That’s what friends are for!

If You’ve Just Had Cataract Surgery as Well

Here’s an enlargement of the photo in which I point out where my hair (clearly) ends and the shadow begins as well as some other commentary about outfits.

And they lived happily ever after.

The End.

(My apologies to Susan, she always did a fabulous job on my hair.  She actually first did my hair when we were little girls playing hairdresser and then did my hair for years until I moved away to Virginia.  Love ya Cuzzie! ♥)

W is for Whispers of Love Oracle Cards

W is also for Wednesday

W is for Wednesday and it felt to good to get back to posting a card reading for Tarot Tuesday, I decided to pull a card for Wednesday from my “Whispers of Love” oracle cards deck by Angela Hartfield which are easily found on Amazon.com (click the link above to check them out and order)

Today’s Card

I shuffled the deck with the intention of drawing a card representing a…

Today’s Energy Oracle Card Reading

Working on Getting My Groove Back

I’m trying really hard (because it’s really hard for me right now) to get motivated, get an earlier start each day, adopt a productive morning routine, stay focused, and other good habits for people trying to make a living while launching a business and taking care of a family and the family home while worrying about an aging parent and maintaining a very firm…

Programmed (Not) to Receive

Apologies to the Eagles for coopting this line from Hotel California and taking poetic license with it on top….

Difficulty with Accepting Help

I’d promised to write about the difficulty many (some would say most) people have with receiving vs. giving and something about this concept has been wriggling around in the back of my mind so here it is….it’s all about CONTROL. 

“People are…

The holiday season is upon us once again.  Hearing “I can’t believe next week is Thanksgiving” has become as routine as “Is it hot enough for ya?”  As I wrote last year, the holiday season was different from any other I’d experienced in my adult life — very emotional, and special nonetheless.

Over the weekend I was part of a conversation about whether it’s betterto give than to receive and I…

Can’t Give It Away

On Following Up

For those of you who are salespeople, marketers, networkers –anyone trying to get others interested in what you’re selling or promoting or maybe a charity you’re supporting you know about the need to make contact and then follow up.  Many have written on this topic and it’s not my attention here to add to that body of work here but you know me, I like to share my experiences.

What …