Ever have a time in your life that looked something like this?

Back in college, Trina got so busy with her academic schedule, she found that she wasn’t reading the notes she scribbled furiously in lecture. And when she did, she realized she just needed a quick point or two, and all the material would come back to her. So, instead of writing sentence after sentence of notes, she started drawing pictures and diagrams that represented the core ideas of the lecture. Then, two years later, she saw a book on MindMapping — and it was exactly what she’d figured out on her own so long before.

Doesn’t it just rock your world when it hits you that there are entire movements out there, based on things that you’ve just been doing naturally, and you’ve been completely oblivious to it?

Well, according to Seth Godin (and I agree with him), "three things are true":

1. Digital technology, especially computers and cell phones, can dramatically increase productivity.
2. More and more users of digital technology are small firms or individuals.
3. The vast majority of users of digital technology are totally lame in getting the most out of the investment of their time and money.

Does this mean people are lame? Of course not; as Holly Buchanan of GrokDotCom says, it’s a matter of priority. Some people would rather focus on other aspects of their work, rather than spend time debugging the processes involved in how they do it.

Well, sometimes.

Sometimes it’s a matter of custom (as in, Joe isn’t accustomed to doing the dishes by hand), and, sometimes it’s a matter of fear.

People are afraid of their computers?

Not really (well, not most of the time…). They are afraid, though, of what they think might happen if they mess them up.

When I was a teenager, my mom always had me to set the clocks on the VCR and in our cars. She never asked me to change the analog clock on the wall, though… because she had no fear of messing up the analog clock. Turn the dial too far? Just turn it back. But because she didn’t grow up with digital, she didn’t know what she’d do if those little buttons acted up and got out of line (to this day, I bet their clocks are off six months out of the year…).

Now, my mom is brilliant. She’s an accomplished artist, a college grad, a stunning soprano, can turn out a perfect pie crust without thinking twice, and grasps what people aren’t saying quicker than they do. But for whatever reason, the advent of digital technology threw her for a loop.

Flaw?

Hardly. Natural human response to the unknown? Totally.

I, on the other hand, grew up with computers and technology. I started tweaking electronic stuff before the idea of ever being afraid of it entered my mind. And, thanks to my Virgo nature, making rational sense of all those 0’s and 1’s just came naturally.
I’ve been intuiting solutions for organizing digital assets (because really, that’s what all these bits become) for years, long before Seth gave it a name.

Here’s what I haven’t found: people who charge $100 an hour to hear what you do and how you do it and then show you how to do it better. People who organize data and put it in the right place.

Well, he’s finding them now… and we are finding ourselves.

I continually have patrons—people who come to me for healing, for intuitive needs, for my Inspired Productivity workshop, for all the Monkish stuff I do—who say,

• how is it you are able to keep your desktop (both my actual desk and my computer desktop) totally clear?
• how do you manage to keep your email inbox at zero?
• how do you organize your stuff so you can find what you already have?
• how do you handle the flood of it all?

Until now, I’ve mumbled a response like, "I dunno… it just comes naturally to me…". But now, I can confidently say, "It’s what I do."

Does this sound like something you need help with?

My long-time compadre Dawud Miracle has been urging me to "plant my flag" so to speak, and let people know how I can help them. So, here it is: If you feel stymied by your systems (or lack of them!), or know that if you just had a better way of doing things "digital", you’d jump on them like white on rice… then I’m your man.

I can fill Seth’s bill.

I can listen to what you do and how you do it (I’m an intuitive healer, y’know?), and I can show you how to do it better (and even though I grew up on Macs, I’ve owned PC’s, too; and most of the things you’ll probably need aren’t "platform-dependent", anyhow… systems are systems no matter what kind of box, desk, or environment you’re running them in).

If you’re looking for…

A freelancer (individual) who usually works with entrepreneurs, small groups or companies to teach them how to dramatically improve productivity or market presence using technology.
For example, a digital coach might hook up your cell phone to be more powerful or teach you how to use blogs and Facebook to connect to your audience.

… then put my three-planets-in-Virgo to work, and let me help you get more productive and peaceful while you do it.

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