Simply Helpful

12/02/2024

Are you feeling the pressure to do it all this holiday season? Let Simply Helpful take some of those tasks off your list! We can help you take tasks off your list and help you enjoy the holiday season with less stress. Send us a message to talk through how we might be able to help.

"“At first I was, like, ‘Man, I should be doing this myself.’ But it frees me up to do things that feel like I’m making magic, like answering all the letters in our Santa mailbox. In 2022, I wrote 171, sealed them with wax and sent them back with a North Pole postmark,” she said.

Professional organizers—who typically charge from $60 to $160 an hour, depending on where you live—also frequently decorate and take down clients’ Christmas trees, set up for parties, stock pantries for holiday baking and even wrap presents, said Richmond, Va., organizer Mindy Godding, president of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals."

Even design pros experience Christmas Fatigue Syndrome some years. Here are the shortcuts and do-withouts (pre-lit trees! mail-order turkeys!) that help you enjoy the holidays.

10/22/2024

Simply Helpful is getting back in the kitchen tomorrow at Newfangled Confections! I can't wait to see what you've got cookin' Carrie!

10/21/2024

Exciting News! 🚀

I’m excited to announce that I’m now accepting new clients through Simply Helpful! If your business needs help with system creation and refinement, clutter organization projects, or short-term project management, I’m here to provide the support you need to streamline and succeed.

If your team is stretched thin, or you are looking to optimize your processes for greater efficiency, let’s connect! I’d love to discuss how I can help your business complete projects and refine systems for smoother operations. Reach out directly to schedule a free consultation.

01/16/2020

I love hearing why other entrepreneurs started their business. Today I share a little about why I started Simply Helpful.

Schedule your free discussion to see if Simply Helpful can help you reduce your professional stress or take a project off your hands through completion. https://simplyhelpfulscheduling.as.me/

11/13/2019

Simply Helpful is in the kitchen with the queen of peanut butter, Newfangled Confections! It’s like being with Willie Wonka in the chocolate factory making and packaging Frittle. It smells like heaven in here!

09/30/2019

Today I want to discuss a staple of Simply Helpful time management: time blocking. What is time blocking, you ask? It’s so simple yet so powerful.

You simply start by creating an action list for the day, or for the week. These are the important tasks that, once completed, will frame your week for success. You put these items in your calendar first. You MAKE time for them and fill in the rest of your week around those tasks. For example, you know that you need to blog, make follow up calls to prospective clients, send thank you cards to current clients & send invoices. You block a certain amount of time to focus on each of those items throughout the week. Maybe Tuesday you block 2 hours making phone calls to prospects and Wed you block 1 hour to send Thank You cards.

Making your calendar with the tasks is the easy part. The hard part is holding yourself to the tasks at the given time!

I admit, sometimes it feels so good just simply creating the calendar and having the intention of completing the task and then, sure enough, the time comes and there is something so urgent and pressing, (like the dishes for you work at home folks) that seem to take precedence over whatever is on my list at the moment. DO NOT FALL INTO THIS TRAP! You must stay faithful to the process for it to work.

Yes, at times there are true fires to put out at the time a task pops onto your calendar. There is a big client that MUST meet with you during your time block to update your CRM with the new business cards you have collected for the week. That’s going to happen. Then you re-schedule the time block, just as you would a meeting and stick to it. A good rule of thumb I have is once I have re-scheduled an item twice, I “can’t” re-schedule it again. It becomes concrete and I HAVE to stick with it the third time.

So, give it at try. See if it helps you really bust through some of those important yet mundane tasks that fall off the radar. See if it helps you to minimize your ADD tendencies where something shiny de-rails your concentration and you end up mixing your billing time with your prospecting time and your facebook time.

As a reminder, I offer free one hour consultations if you are curious if Simply Helpful can help you with your business or project. Simply click the link below we can schedule some time to talk.

09/26/2019

I could not be more excited to share this preview from my friend and Simply Helpful client, Sunday Afternoon Housewife. Martha Latta exemplifies the concept of Women Supporting Women. Join me in supporting her on October 11th at her event and the premier screening of her video.

09/19/2019

Today I discuss how outsourcing can bring the joy back into entrepreneurship and increase revenue.

08/22/2019

CRMs (Customer Relationship Manager) can be a very valuable tool for small business owners to track and work through leads and turn them in to customers. Not sure how to do this? Send us a message. We offer free, no-commitment consultations to see if we can help.