Sunday, July 29, 2012

Managing Your Second Life

Double Lives
Most people these days lead double lives---the good kind. Business men by day are small business entrepreneurs by night, following their passions. A full-time nurse is also a little league coach and a college professor plays jazz at night.

For many a 9-5 is no longer an identity and with the second lives people tend to lead comes the need for time management.
Managing time is of the utmost importance if you want to be the one to do and have it all. Skillful time management can give your life organize balance. Bad time management can lead you on a wild course of chaos, events over lapping, arriving too early or too late---pandemonium!
Resources to successful time management
There are solutions to your time management solutions:
Undotherest.com offers time management apps for your phone to keep track of your busy schedule.
If you are a visual learner, consider this article from SmallBusinessTrends.com which offers a mind map as a solution for the busy business owner.
SavvySugar.com offers more common sense than advice including planning in advance and being realistic about over-loading your schedule.
Odyssey Concierge is dedicated to organizing your schedule and assisting in managing your daily business routine to ensure that you are being the most successful you can be.
Odyssey Concierge – your life, simplified.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Fulfilling Your Non-Profit Start Up Dream

dyssey Concierge is constantly looking to for information to benefit our clients. Non-profit start up is just one of the areas in which we assist in simplifying the lives of our clients who wish to give back to their communities.
A recent article on SmallBusinessTrends.com by Business.USA.gov provides “8 Essential Steps to Starting a Non-Profit Organization:

~Define your Mission
~Research your Niche
~Write a Business Plan
~Set Up a Board
~Incorporate Your Non-Profit And Register It With Legal Entities
~Incorporate Options for Hybrid Businesses/Non-Profits
~Start Fundraising
~Leverage Government Grants and other Recourses for Non-profits.
These eight simple and well elaborated steps are the essential components to establishing an effective and successful non-profit organization. Creating a way to give back and improve a community, in the end can benefits everyone involved, it just takes a time and serious effort to get your idea off the ground.
This is where Odyssey Concierge is able to step in and assist with non-profit start up. We not only simplify your life, but clarify and bring to life your dreams to make this world a better place, one non-profit organization at a time.www.odysseyconcierge.com