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Jun.12.2013
This broadcast is our 75th consecutive broadcast of Express Yourself!™ and in honor of this momentous occasion we are dreaming BIG! People who get into the habit of dreaming big are more likely to accomplish their goals than those who don’t. If you dare to dream big, your mind will put...
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Dec.30.2012
This time of year, there are so many posts on the Internet about making New Year's resolutions, 88% of which fail, according to a 2007 study by Richard Wisemen involving 3,000 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_resolution
Instead of focusing on the negatives, the next...
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Jan.25.2012
Can taking one, small step really change your life? Proponents of kaizen think so. (And for the record, so do I.) Kaizen is a means of making great and lasting change through small, steady increments. Kaizen's practical roots are based in the Japanese management concept for incremental (gradual...
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Feb.09.2011
A couple of months ago I created an elaborate list of goals. The list broke my goals down into two primary goals - be become a published writer or women's fiction and to expand my women's travel club. I took each of those goals and drilled them down into a list of smaller goals and the tasks...
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Jan.04.2010
Okay, it’s now that time of year when we look ahead (and make New Year’s Resolutions) and look back (at all the things we accomplished — or not, hence the New Year’s Resolutions).
On the publishing front, literary agent Nathan Bransford looks back at 2009 in his blog … while this Booksquare post...
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Dec.30.2009
Hard to believe another year has slipped away. Aside from an early dinner at our local favorite Italian restaurant, we don't normally go out to celebrate, figuring there are too many crazy people on the roads, but we felt "obligated" to go out on New Year's Eve when 1999 became 2000. Was...
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Jun.01.2009
This past weekend a few colleagues and I formed a Mastermind group. The purpose of this group is to network together to make connections, motivate one another to set and achieve goals, support one another, and put our minds together to generate ideas to assist one another in reaching our highest...
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May.19.2009
This is what I did yesterday. I'll begin with the more mundane things so you know I'm a well-rounded person and don't think me a cyborg right off the bat.
I walked for an hour, did some kickboxing, emailed with some clients from my freelance editing business, went to the library to return and take...
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Dec.29.2008
Almost a year ago, I blogged about Roxanne St. Claire's goal-setting workshop. Her advice is as valuable today as it was then.
With the new year just days away, how many of you have started looking forward? Are you reflecting on what you accomplished this year? Did you make a lot of resolutions...
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Oct.29.2008
Hello fellow writers,
I'm sure everyone is geared up for NaNoWriMo and have cleared their schedules as much as humanly possible in order to accomplish such an amazing feat. So now the question is, do you have your story planned out as well? I am going to be continuing my second novel Through the...
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