My friend Paula Rizzo looks like a sweet little cat.  She’s neat and orderly and totally adorable, a petite, pretty brunette with a laugh like a bell.  But don’t be fooled. Inside that kitten facade, the girl is a pit bull.  She cut her teeth in newsrooms (which are not for the faint of heart)

If you think that being a successful person, professional, entrepreneur, or human requires that you “do it on your own,” boy are you making life hard for yourself. I’ve been on my own for almost 7 years now—7!—since I was laid off from my magazine job. And people always say, “Wow, you went out on

Paula Rizzo is an Emmy award-winning television producer and founder of the productivity site ListProducer.com.  She’s also the author of the new book Listful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed. I recently