To Become Outstanding

To Become Outstanding

Outstanding. Remarkable. Splendid. Awesome. Superb. Great. Amazing. Admirable. Excellent. Wonderful. Superior. Magnificent. Extraordinary. Special. Exceptional. Brilliant. As a new business owner, I’d be beyond thrilled if someone used one of those adjectives to...
Best Book Launch Tips: Gather Tweetables

Best Book Launch Tips: Gather Tweetables

One of your greatest tools in creating excitement for, and interest in, your book is the content from the book itself. Although not every sentence of your book is perfected crafted as a tweet, you likely have many sentences, ideas, concepts, and questions within your...
Decision #4: I Will Keep Going

Decision #4: I Will Keep Going

This post begins with a confession: sometimes I think about quitting. Don’t worry — I don’t think about it in a serious way. I think about it in a wondering way. I wonder what it would be like to drop my kids off at school and come home to a cup of coffee...
Decision #3: I Will Give Everything

Decision #3: I Will Give Everything

This is the 3rd post in a series about decisions for my business in 2013. You can read Decision #1 here and Decision #2 here.  Of all the book titles I’ve considered for the book I dream of writing some day, my top two favorites are: Give Everything and Use...
The 1st Blog Post of 2013

The 1st Blog Post of 2013

If I had set out to write the story of 2012 on January 1st, there is no way I could have anticipated — or even dreamed  — of the blessings along the way last year. As I got up early this morning to write, I realize the same is true for this New Year. Although my path...
Reconnecting, Restarting, and Re-entering

Reconnecting, Restarting, and Re-entering

Sometime in the afternoon yesterday, I remembered that I planned today, the day after Christmas, as work day. I remembered that I have a client call this morning at 8 am. And I remembered that I haven’t blogged in far too long. Even though I love my work, I...
My Favorite Facebook Gadget

My Favorite Facebook Gadget

I’ve been on Facebook since July of 2007, which means I have gone through several changes to their layout, and been part of the crowd who cried, “Not again!” each time something changed. Despite my five years of using Facebook, it was only after I...
Decision #2: I Will Track My Time

Decision #2: I Will Track My Time

This is a decision I came to kicking and screaming. (Ask Angie.) I am not a time-tracking kind of girl. I actually, despite being a “J” on the Myers-Briggs, rebel against many such restraints. I have been in business since January or so, and tried to track...
Decision #1: I Will Do the Work

Decision #1: I Will Do the Work

Every where I click online, it seems like people are writing year-end wrap-ups and talking about planning for the new year. As we enter December, I am considering: What did I accomplish this year? Where do I want to be next year this time? What has defined my year?...