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Halo Secretarial’s Home Office Update

Posted by Laurie on Feb 6, 2012 in Featured, Home Office, Inspiration | 2 comments

I ended 2011 by redesigning Halo Secretarial’s website. I think the new look is fresh and a little more visual. Hopefully you like it too! I wanted to continue the update trend for 2012, so my first project was my home office. While admittedly I work all over my house (yay for laptops!) I do have a basement home office that was in not so pretty of shape until recently.

Here’s the before picture (note boring bare walls and lack of proper storage):

I spent some time shopping for a few new things, including plenty of time spent on Pinterest and Google Image Search getting ideas for home office setups that might work for me. I don’t really sit at my desk, it’s more for organization purposes and storage, so that was one thing I didn’t have to worry about much. I mostly work from my treadmill. When I get tired I’m likely to work from my computer so the 4yo is easy to keep in sight

Anyway, here’s my updated home office – I love it!

Updating my office motivated me to really use my treadmill workstation, and it made me excited all over again to work from home. Realizing I am the only one who gets to decide what goes on my walls and how it should be set up is wonderful. Now time to decide what the next project will be…

Work Inspiration

Posted by Laurie on Jan 11, 2012 in Featured, virtual legal assistance | Comments Off

Some days you just feel unmotivated and uninspired. Time for an inspiring quote:

Work is love made visible.
And if you can’t work with love
but only with distaste, it is
better that you should leave
your work and sit at the gate
of the temple and take alms
of the people who work with joy.
-Kahlil Gibran

Happy New Year from Halo

Posted by Laurie on Dec 31, 2011 in Featured, virtual legal assistance | Comments Off

Wishing a wonderful 2012 to all my clients, colleagues and blog readers!

I’m looking forward to a great 2012. 2011 was truly a successful year for Halo Secretarial Services, with several new clients and an increased dedication to taking on only lawyer clients, to allow me to truly practice my specialty of legal virtual assistance. I initiated working with my first subcontractor (a fabulous VLA based locally in Alberta), started using a treadmill desk and worked hard to find balance between my wonderful work and my amazing family. I can’t wait to see how much more can be done in 2012.

Halo Secretarial Website and Blog Changes

Posted by Laurie on Dec 9, 2011 in Featured | Comments Off

One of my goals working towards 2012 (as decided after working through some thoughts shared in my recent newsletter!) is to update my website and blog. I try to make the necessary fundamental changes on a regular basis (such as elimination or addition of services, changes to rates, etc) but now I’m due for an overhaul of the visual aspect of the sites. This means there may be a few glitchy moments here and there or times when the site is not available, but hopefully I can keep the disruptions to a minimum and get it all beautiful and fresh before the new year begins. After all, what a great way to spend time over the quieter holiday season than updating my site

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