OMG, I color-coded my business and I am so happy. Oh the happy! Everything makes sense to me now. Allow me to explain.
I’ve been doing some coaching with the lovely and brilliant Cairene, a systems and time management savant, of ThirdHandWorks. She totally gets us creative entrepreneurs and how we think, organize and process.
Let me just say that when she dropped into our conversation this line, “….remember in design class when they talked about the color wheel?” I swooned and leaned in closer (on the phone) to hear what she was saying.
Bookkeeping has a color? A mood? Seriously? Seriously!
Like beautifully dyed Easter eggs
It does. Mine is blue. So does networking (yellow). Whimsy (pink). Creating, yes different from whimsy, I’ll explain later (orange). Blogging (green). Learning (purple). And marketing (maroon).
Not only a color but a mood, personality and unique qualities. Also yet to be discovered: a time of day, frequency and sequencing. Like on the color wheel.
Which colors (activities) clash or make mud when combined? Which are synchronous and harmonic?
Systems rock
This my friends is a system I can get behind. A system that excites me. A system I want to explore.
Just wait until you see my project timelines…..
Want to mindmap your business on your own? You can.
Which reminds me…..back in January I taught a teleclass with Cairene on how to mindmap your business/life. There were lots of cool things in the class like a guided meditation to see where your business wants to go and what it needs, investigating the iconography or images that animate your business, and constructing a mindmap of where your business is headed.
The mindmapping teleclass is available here in case you missed it.
Related posts:
- A visual business plan teleclass
- Mindmapping different kinds of Time
- Got a business plan that makes you smile?
- This week’s whimsy: Save the words edition.
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“Which colors (activities) clash or make mud when combined? Which are synchronous and harmonic?”
Oh, I love this! I’m in the middle of deciding exactly how I want to spend all the different parts of my days, and I am totally adding this
.-= Cranky Fibro Girl´s last post … Cranky Fibro Girl And The Story That Is Completely Inappropriate For Easter =-.
I’d love to see what you come up with so we can compare. Have fun!!
My business has a color! That sounds like LOLCATs! Ha ha, I love this. Way to rock the color wheel!
.-= Kelly Parkinson´s last post … What Would Jillian Michaels Do—About Your Sales Page? =-.
Oh! of COURSE my business has a color! It’s all ABOUT color!
I’m going to play with this today!
Woo! Color!
.-= Tara´s last post … The Cycle of Creativity =-.
Yay for Cairene for bringing you into a system that I’d totally thought you’da had forever, Julie!
It’s funny what we take for granted our own systems (I instinctively use color in the same way), presuming that everyone else must do it because it works for us… that’s why I love reading about other people’s discoveries like this — I remember not to take anything for granted, that we’re all so different, that there’s tons of systems that even a systems-lover like me doesn’t know. Thanks for sharing the discoveries, Julie ~ !
Your pal,
~GirlPie
PS: your blogroll is like a party with every color sweet/smartie out there, swell!
.-= GirlPie´s last post … TheGirlPie: RT @pattidigh: perfect. RT @TheGirlPie: "The younger I get, the more I see it ALL comes back to practice… " =-.
Kelly, Tara, GirlPie,
Thanks so much for stopping by.
GirlPie, I miss reading about your systems are the ole’ waterin’ hole. Things just aren’t the same without you there.
Tara, let me know how the color thing works out for you.
Color coding you business, I love it! I took that class in January and it was SO COOL! I want to do my map again (yay for class recordings!) but I think I will focus on color more this time. I had a lot of fun renaming typical business concepts to something more “me”. Like Networking became Connections.
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