August 2010

6 Quick Tips for Organizing Your Excel Spreadsheet

August 24, 2010
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I love Excel spreadsheets. I don’t know if it’s because it satisfies my nerdy desire to be organized or because there’s so much you can do with it. Probably a little of both, honestly.
Spreadsheets are incredibly powerful, functional, versatile tools you can use to organize almost any sort of information. For example:

Passwords
Project lists and notes
Client [...]

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Choices Made and Problem Solved

August 17, 2010
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If you’ve been reading this blog over the past several months, you know that my family and I recently moved from Colorado to Missouri. Because of this, I had to close down my private practice and figure out my next step in a new state.
I think I’ve done it.
After talking with several attorneys and–I confess–only [...]

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Is It Just Me, Or Does This Really Work?

August 12, 2010
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You may recall that, in addition to this blog here, I also blog at Psychology Today–though not nearly as often! This morning I published a story about an experience I had a couple years ago where I was able to use music to calm two boys in an active “fight, flight, or freeze” [...]

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A Surprising Way to Start Treating New Clients

August 10, 2010
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If you “like” me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter, you know that I spent this past weekend traveling. But this wasn’t any traveling–this was traveling to spend a weekend with girlfriends. A special, sacred, everyone-should-have-the-opportunity-to-do-this type of weekend with the girls.
So of course we spent much of our time together dishing about ourselves, [...]

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Top 10 Things I’m Grateful For

August 6, 2010
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Grateful. adj. Feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful
One of the basic tenets of most spiritual and religious beliefs is the idea of gratitude. Being grateful for the gifts life offers.
I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude this week. You see, it’s a big weekend for me–because this weekend I turn 30!!!

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Choices, Choices, Choices: What’s My Next Step?

August 3, 2010
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I have a problem.
It’s not a major or “unsolve-able” problem…just something I’m trying to think through and figure out. Maybe you can help?
Here’s the situation:
My husband and I currently have two business we’ve incorporated and run through the state of Colorado: Neurosong Music Therapy (my music therapy practice) and Beyond the Notes (his music education [...]

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