Here's a great explanation of CMYK for those who do RGB.

Rule Number One, above all else in print, is that what you see on paper will not look like what you have on screen.

This doesn't just apply to professional printers. Do you use a color laser printer? You probably already print in CMYK. Depending on your print driver, your print job may be sent to the printer in RGB, but the ink you're using is probably Cyan Magenta Yellow and Key (black). If you're doing design work, switching your print driver to allow for printing in CMYK may give you more reliable and controllable color. This might also improve other aspects of your printing as well. The postscript drivers that allow for CMYK printing can also improve the sharpness of vector graphics in your printing. Go take a look at the article at Mezzoblue

Andrew Crow at Adaptive Path has Some Good Advice.

It’s all my fault. Blame no-one, but your self, if you have touched something accept total responsibility for that piece of work. If you accept responsibility you are in the position to do something about it.

Draw with different pen. Magic markers and Pentels are not the only ways to make marks on paper. Change your tools, it may free your thinking.

I'd never really thought about it before, but when I want to start something new, or make a dramatic change on a product, I often change pens. I find using a new pen helps me shed the old ideas, and look at a project with a fresh perspective.

There's a great article about Using WordPress Categories To Style Posts at Lorelle on WordPress . You might think to yourself that you don't want a blog, but WordPress can be used for much more than that. It would be reasonably easy to create a website powered by WordPress that looked nothing like a traditional blog. WordPress gives you the ability to easily post information in an orderly manner. Organized by time, date, and category. Using the methods listed in Lorelle's article, you could customize your site by essentially giving each category different CSS characteristics. This would give you a wide range of formatting and organizational solutions for your site.