Food for Thought
Featured Member - Deborah Amsberry
Upcoming Events
Special Thanks!
Successful Habits: Shattered Myths
Member Specials & News
Have Fun Personalizing Your Work Environment!
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius (551479 B.C.), Chinese philosopher.

Deborah Amsberry, Key Solutions 4 U
deborah@keysolutions4u.com
http://www.keysolutions4u.com

Knowledge is the Key... Action is the Solution

Deborah Amsberry is a seasoned professional with "in the trenches" experience to her credit. A highly sought after professional speaker, consultant and trainer. Deborah's attention to detail and her commitment to you is why you can expect great rewards both personally and professionally from her workshops and seminars.

Deborah is A+ Certified and intimately familiar with the types of challenges that go into obtaining this prestigious credential.

Deborah is also a Microsoft Product Specialist and holds a Master Certification in Microsoft Office 2000. All-important credentials that further validate her high level of expertise.

Deborah's company, Key Solutions 4 U, provides consulting, training, & designing for all of your personal and professional needs.

The Growth Guild
All of our events are FREE, unless otherwise noted.

February 13th from 9:30 am - 11:30 am
"NVAS Roundtable - Ideas, Ideas, Ideas"
Come join us for a brainstorming session! Members will be sharing ideas that could help you business. We look forward to answering your questions and hearing your ideas.
Please RSVP - theresa@nvas.org.

March 13th from 9:30 am - 11:30 am
"Learning to Work Virtually" presented by Theresa Martinez of ASAP Solutions
I have a home office, now what??? Come learn tips and tricks to make your home office experience enjoyable.
Please RSVP - theresa@nvas.org.

April 10th from 9:30 am - 11:30 am
"Wellness at Work" presented by Sue Roe of Performance Dimensions
Take this opportunity to optimize your level of "wellness" at work. Learn how to maximize your wellness, enhance your performance and productivity, and increase your energy.
Please RSVP - theresa@nvas.org.

EVENT SPONSORS: Please contact us if you are interested in sponsoring any of the listed events. Sponsorship only costs between $10 - 30 & you receive recognition for being an event sponsor.

All events are located at 4130 E. Van Buren, Suite 150 (just south of Loop 202 & west of 44th Street) in the conference room at the ASBA office.

Check our calendar for more detailed and updated information... information will also be included in our meeting reminders.

Thank you, ASAP Solutions for sponsoring our events! We appreciate you!

ASAP Solutions
Virtual Business Services
"Creating Quality Solutions"
http://www.asap-solutions.com
info@asap-solutions.com
480-515-5055

If you have anyone you would like to thank for their support, please let us know so we can include it in our next issue. theresa@nvas.org

Excerpt from the book "Built to Last" by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Myth: Companies become visionary primarily through "vision statements".
Reality: The visionary companies attained their stature not so much because they made visionary pronouncements. Nor did they rise to greatness because they wrote one of the vision, values, purpose, mission, or aspiration statements that have become popular in management today. Creating a statement can be a helpful step in building a visionary company, but it is only one of thousands of steps in a never-ending process of expressing the fundamental characteristics we identified across the visionary companies.

ASAP Solutions
Virtual Business Services
"Creating Quality Solutions"
http://www.asap-solutions.com
info@asap-solutions.com
480-515-5055
ASAP Solutions announces several new services!

Theresa has just become an Arizona statewide NxLeveL instructor for the NxLeveL microenterprise course. The course is a 12 to 15 week course explores the ability to achieve self-sufficiency through self-employment. The course cost is $295 for NVAS members (as well as ASBA and HBBC members). The fee includes the course, guide, and workbook.

ASAP Solutions also now provides business consulting and coaching. One on one consultations and coaching programs are personalized to each individual.

Contact us now for more information!

ASAP Solutions & Web World Wizardry
"The Marketing Team For Your Small Business"
http://www.asap-solutions.com
info@asap-solutions.com
480-515-5055
AND
http://www.webworldwiz.com
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480-515-2832
**MARKETING SOLUTIONS**
* Corporate identity (logo design)... from $200
* Letterhead, envelopes, business cards... from $200
* Brochures... from $100
* Postcards... from $50
* Newsletters... from $100
* Advertisements... from $200
* Web sites... from $250
* Web pages/Online brochures... from $75
* Email campaigns... from $50
* Electronic newsletters (e-newsletters)... from $50
* Online marketing... from $100
Discounts offered for combined services provided... contact us more info.

Web World Wizardry
Web Site Design, Development, Marketing, Maintenance, & Hosting
"Making Your Visions Become Reality"
http://www.webworldwiz.com
info@webworldwiz.com
480-515-2832
**WINTER SPECIAL**
FREE Website Analysis

MEMBERS - Have news to share? Specials to announce? Be sure to send in any information you would like to include in our newsletter by the 25th of each month. We would love to get the word out! theresa@nvas.org

Have Fun Personalizing Your Work Environment!

By Petra Boham, PetrArt

Do you feel tired at your computer? Do you ever get to the point that you are sick at looking at your work area? Are the piles driving you crazy? Are you sometimes overwhelmed by them continuously stacking up, up, up? I have some solutions for you to alleviate some of the stress and add some personal touches that will hopefully liven up your environment and make it more YOU.

Since we can personalize our desks (unlike being in an office that doesn't allow you to put your personality into your "work station"), I have some great ideas for you to get started incorporating YOU into your business and not only will you be more productive, but more motivated and it will be FUN!

To start off, what do you really, really enjoy doing? Do you like to read? Do you have a favorite author? Find some pictures of him/her, cut them up, and create a collage, you can even add words or other images and display them around your work area - maybe in a frame on your desk or hang them on the wall by your computer. You can just tape or glue the pictures to a piece of paper and even tape it to the wall with scotch tape! It's that easy. Or maybe you enjoy music. Take some pictures from Rolling Stone or Musician magazine and make a collage. Are you health conscious? Love taking walks? Maybe you have some photographs that you have taken, and you can incorporate this in with your piece. It's o.k. to cut the photos. It took me quite a while to get over "ruining" them by cutting them.

Another idea is to think about your goals, both personally and professionally. Make a "wish list" of items or events that you want. I made one where I "made" my dream home by cutting out pictures of parts of rooms I just loved from Architectural Digest and ended up creating a whole house!!

Please don't think that your ideas, goals, dreams, and aspirations are too small or ridiculous to play with - it's important to you and that is what matters.

If you have any questions, or are stuck and don't know how to implement your thoughts, please don't hesitate to call Petra @ PetrArt. My number is 602-267-9251, or e-mail me: info@petrart.com.

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