Happy New Year to everyone in the home staging community! It was a dramatic Christmas holiday after a tree crashed into my roof during an ice storm. Fortunately, it didn’t cave in because I was sleeping right under where it fell.

I appreciated that the debris was cleared on New Year’s Eve day so I didn’t have to start 2014 with “dead wood” from last year. It was the perfect metaphor as I look forward to what lies ahead.

One of my favorite activities at the start of January is staring a new DayTimer. Yes, I book all my appointments and plan my life the old fashioned way, on paper. I find it so much easier to flip open my book and see my week at a glance rather than scrolling through screens on a tiny electronic device. What do you do?

In this month’s articles you’ll: discover paint colors for every room and how long it takes me to choose colors; discover why home staging can be worth $40,000; find out which Staging Diva Grads are tops in North America; and more.

To read this month’s articles about starting and running a home staging business: Click Here.

I hope you’ve taken some time to think about how you’d like your home staging business and life to look a year from now. What would make you happy? What would “success” look like for you?

You are the star of your own life and you get to start a blank page whenever you like and write your “script” for how you want it to go. So if some of your New Year’s resolutions have already fallen off the rails, don’t worry. You can start getting back on track today.

Wishing you every success in 2014!