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What Is Your Time Worth?

20 years as an accountant and now as a master life and business coach as well as a master copywriter, I’ve learned how you treat your time equals how much you earn.  This applies if you work for someone else, or yourself.  However, it does equate more if you charge or just calculate your service or product development by the hour.

Over the years, I development a simple-to-use but powerful spreadsheet that will show you:

1. when to outsource your work
2. focus on profitable tasks
3. what you need to create in order to meet your goal

For the next 48 hours, I’m offering a BIG discount.

This began 12 noon Eastern on Saturday, November 21 and expires Sunday, November 22, 1 pm.  Then it will return to it’s original $27 value.

Yes, you can create this spreadsheet on your own.  It will only take you a few hours.  But this gets us back to the question of this whole product – how much is your time worth?

This is being offered on the CatherineFranz.com Web site . . .

I'd like to go to this page now

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Drawing Tip with the Letter "O"

I’ve been having a great time these past few mornings by learning to draw.

Hmm, I don’t know if it’s really drawing, maybe more like doodling.

Well, anyway, I thought I’d turn you on to what I’ve been doing and maybe you’d want in on the fun too.

The Special Mind Mapping Notebook You'll Love To Use

At last night’s workshop attendees were asking to see my mind map and to know more about how they can purchase the special notebook I was using.

I remembered this question has come up often over the years. 

I promised my fellow attendees I would post the information on my blog today and I thought you may like to check this notebook out as well.

I’ve provide a few supplier links at the end of this post so you can have more information about the paper quality. 

The paper quality is thicker than normal paper which is great because then the marker colors don’t bleed through.

Beware there are two sizes when you’re researching.  You may first be fooled because one is much cheaper than the other but that’s because it’s a smaller size.

On the right is what a blank page
looks like.

Keep reading and I’ll give you
some vendors who sell these
notebooks.

I’ve been using this notebook for 12 years
and still love using them when a laptop
is compatible with the environment.

Vendors who sell this notebook and have additional information about it (prices vary):

MasterArt                 
Artists Pick               
Dataprint 

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Catherine's quote for the week of July 13

"Be the investigator, not the justifier; be watchful, not willful."

                                                                    Catherine Franz

Catherine's Quote for the Week of July 6

 "When your destination is not of this Earth, then nothing on this earth can disturb you."
                                                                                               Catherine Franz

Quote of the Week

"There is always something higher, if you will only remember to keep your head held up."

411 Information is Now Handled by Google

I had a fun time learning about Google’s new free 411 service this past week and just yesterday got to experience it for myself.

I was doing my weekly volunteer “roving reporter” assignment at the local farmer’s market when someone told me about this store that had exactly what I was looking for.  I dialed the number (below), gave them the business name and they immediately connected me to the store and confirmed that they had what I was looking for.  Google  also sent me a map to the store directly to my cell phone.  Thirty minutes later I was leaving the store, purchase in hand, smiling, remembering how I had spent hours over the past few months looking for this. 

The service is totally free.  That’s right FREE!

Google has a short video here to learn more.

Even though its a simple process of dialing 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411), I highly recommend watching the 3-minute video.

For those living in Canada, it works for you as well (in the FAQ section).

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Quote of the Week

"If life knocks you flat on your back, open your eyes: above you are the stars."

Quote of the Week

"Never hesitate to place yourself in a position where you don't know what to do."