Website Wish Kit: Coming Tuesday to a telephone near you

October 6, 2011 By

Hey you guys, I made a new thing!

It’s called the Website Wish Kit, and it’s a downloadable guide to figuring out exactly what you need to do next on your website.

If you are a do-it-yourself dynamo, you can go through the exercises in about an hour and a half, and come away with a completely new, completely you vision for your website.

Jen Hofmann of Inspired Home Office created the original Wish Kit, which inspired and formed the basis of this product. She graciously gave me her blessing to adapt the three-step Wish Kit process for websites, and specific permission to use the name “Wish Kit.”

(I used my own product myself multiple times as I was going through my most recent round of site changes, and I’m much better friends with my website now than I was before. Yes, me, the person who lives and breathes websites. Honest.)

Avoiding dusty-shelf syndrome

However, if you’re anything like me, even if you love the idea of the Website Wish Kit, and even if you buy and download it right now, there’s a pretty good chance it will sit, unopened, somewhere on your hard drive, for a very long time. Like a book on a dusty shelf that you never had time to open.

And I really want you to use it. I want you to wish. Really wish, with all your heart. Not keep your website dreams on the electronic equivalent of a dusty shelf.

So I’m doing something about it.

I’m holding a live teleclass to walk you through the Website Wish Kit three-step process, answer questions, and chat about the many species of site stuckness.

The Website Wish Kit teleclass will happen on Tuesday, October 11, from 10am to noon, Pacific time.

Yes, I will be recording the class, and everyone who signs up will get the recording. So if you’re at a dayjob, or in the Southern hemisphere, or otherwise occupied, you can still get the goodness.

Get into the Website Wish Kit teleclass for free

The cost for the Website Wish Kit is $37. The Website Wish Kit + Teleclass normally costs $87, but til Tuesday, you can save $50 if you’re a member of my new Invitation List.

(That’s my version of an advance-discount-and-notification list. It’s completely separate from my weekly newsletter, and it’s specifically for people who want to be the very first to hear about my classes and products.)

Did someone say Til Tuesday?

Yep. That was me. Looks like I’ll be dusting off my Aimee Mann albums for working music this afternoon.

::hums happily::

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Save the date: Website Wish Kit class on January 19

December 29, 2010 By

I’m still working on all the details, but I’ve picked a date for my next teleclass, Your Website Wish Kit: Wednesday, January 19, at 10am Pacific (1pm Eastern).

You might want to hold that spot open if you’re interested in improving your website (and that includes going from “What website?” to actually having one that works).

See, I’m developing a class that is based on Jen Hofmann’s Wish Kit. That’s an affiliate link, because I own and highly recommend the Wish Kit, which has been a tremendous help to me over the past couple of years. Jen helps people come into harmony with their workspaces, but she does so much more than give organizing advice — it’s hard to sum up. If you don’t know Jen, go visit her site and introduce yourself. She’s good people.

Anyway, I’ve been using Jen’s fabulous Wish Kit technique to create my ideal office space, and I recently realized that the exact same methodology could be used on virtual office space — on websites.

Jen has given me her blessing to use her methodology and even the name Wish Kit, which is incredibly generous of her. I’m buzzing with excitement about leading a class that will help you, in Jen’s words, “move from overwhelm and frustration to clarity and hope.”

So, whether you don’t yet have a website and don’t even know the first step to getting one, or you have a website that irks you because you want to tweak it but don’t know how, or even if you have a website that you’re fairly happy with but want to know how it could be improved…the Website Wish Kit class can help.

Stay tuned to this blog for the official announcement — subscribers will be the first to know that the class is open for sign-ups. Subscribers also get my 28-page WordPress Essentials Toolkit as my thank-you for letting me into your inbox each week.

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Aligning your (technology) office space with your core values

July 22, 2009 By

I’d like to remind everyone that the beautiful and brilliant Jen Hofmann of Inspired Home Office will be my special guest on tomorrow’s free teleclass.

Jen is an expert on office space and organizing, but what she does is much deeper than simply helping people color-code their files or suggesting a layout for their office furniture (though I can personally attest that her suggestions to me on both those topics have been enormously helpful in my working life!).

Working with Jen has given me a new appreciation for the effect that my workspace has on my work… and that translates into my whole life. My whole house. The space I carry with me each day.

Ever since I first came up with the Small-Business Tree, I’ve known that physical things like office furniture could be important roots (life-support systems, sustaining factors) for a home-based business. As I’ve worked with Jen to explore how my own brain works best, I’ve come to see that the alignment between physical space and core values is crucial.

Which leads to the question of the week:

What about my virtual office space?

We’ve all got email inboxes and files stored on our computers. Many of us are overwhelmed by the number and complexity of the messages and files we are “supposed to” read and keep track of each day. And there are tons of guides out there for “taming” “managing” and “conquering” your email and your file organization.

I don’t have a one-size-fits-all seven-steps-to-a-clean-desktop system to sell you. Even if I did, it would only work for those of you whose brains work pretty much like mine does — the rest of you would be bitterly disappointed.

That’s the genius of working with Jen. She’s got principles that apply to everyone, but the specific methods each one of us will use to align ourselves with our workspace and organizational system will be different, because each one of us is unique.

And isn’t it interesting how different you feel when you say things like “align” and “bring into harmony” and “depend on” instead of “tame,” “conquer,” or “zap”? It’s not just language, not just semantics. Our choice of words matters.

That’s why I think it’s genius that Jen’s new offering is called Jen and Charlie’s Work Party (yes, she’s pairing up with another of my most favorite people ever, Charlie Gilkey — it’s going to be beyond awesome)! It’s a party! It’s fun! And the name A Course in Compassion for Clutter is brilliant — you know right away whether it feels right for you.

Learning to look at your email inbox a new way, or realizing that you don’t have to organize your file folders the way you were taught or the way everyone else does it, is enormously freeing. Finding a way that works for you is a deep and true affirmation of your core values.

And that’s what tomorrow’s call is all about. I can’t promise a quick-fix solution to your overflowing inbox, or an easy way to find those missing files. I know we’ll be talking about technology and organization, about email and files and websites, and I’m certain that Jen will bring a new perspective, true compassion, and her full and generous heart to the conversation.

Oh, and did I mention that Jen has one of the most beautiful, soothing voices on the planet? It will be worth it to dial in just to hear her talk, I swear.

Plus we’re guaranteed to laugh and have fun. I’m honored to call Jen a friend, and I can’t wait to join her tomorrow!

Join us, won’t you?

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