In Search of: A Splash of Color and a Few Goals

It would seem I woke up at the most inopportune time in the morning, and my mind has begun to race.  This hasn’t happened in quite a while, but I figure I might as well make the most of it.  No sense tossing and turning when I can write and perhaps do something productive.  I’m [...]

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What’s Your End Game?

I’m at a loss for words.  Not because I’m really at a loss.  But because my brain is sort of mushy, and I can’t think.  I spent the last two days writing lesson plans to teach my biology students about basic chemistry.  Which turned into me attempting to completely relearn everything I learned in chemistry [...]

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Adventures with a Personal Coach

Last week, I had an awesome coaching session with the lovely Eran Norton. She’s completing training as a life coach and is doing sessions with me as part of her training.  When she mentioned she needed people to do practice hours with, my hand shot straight up.  Pick me!  Pick me! And then, after she [...]

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Hey Now, You’re a Rock Star!

And so am I!  I was interviewed by Nailah at Polka Dot Coaching and am featured on her blog today as part of the Rock Star Squad. (That’s right – you heard it here first.  I’m a rock star.) >>>looking bashful<<< We talked about what made me want to write and the steps I took [...]

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First, Do What Matters: Thoughts on Organizing Your Schedule

This post was written by Heather Rae.  Follow me on Twitter or StumbleUpon. The past several weeks, I’ve been struggling with how to organize my schedule. You see, this whole business of working on my own — writing a novel, maintaining a website and developing a number of other writing projects — it’s had me [...]

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20 Things in 2010

January is over.  The month for making resolutions, themes and goals for the year is thus complete.  But wait!  I’m not done daydreaming. If any of you are like me, if you want to keep planning and scheming and dreaming up your adventures for the coming year, then I encourage you to do just that.  [...]

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Welcome 2010

I’m scared. This is my All or Nothing year. So as I set out to make it amazing, it’s time to start taking those leaps of faith.  This goes against nearly everything in my genetic makeup.  I’m not a gambler or a risk taker.  I’m more of a rule-following, planning, stick-in-the-mud.  At least, that’s my [...]

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A Little Fancy Tickling and an All or Nothing Year

One thing that I truly enjoy about this time of year is the opportunity to reflect — to take time out, look back at the previous year, think about what I liked, what I didn’t like and make any adjustments for the year ahead.  In reality, it’s a bit arbitrary.  I could reflect at absolutely any [...]

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Stepping Outside the Box

I am so excited to tell you that my friend, Mireya, has decided to join me in making this year (and the next, since this one’s almost over) our year for taking chances.  Yeah–I have a partner in crime! So what does this mean? Remember last week when I read the article on Oprah’s website about [...]

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Taking Inventory

The latest assignment for my creative writing class was to help me learn about myself through writing. The assignment was to create a book outline of my life; name the chapters and subchapters. After outlining my life to the present day, I outlined my future, based on the direction I want to take. What will [...]

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