Re-organizing Around my New Life

April 15, 2010

I’ve spent some time in the past week re-arranging my office space.  I’m really fortunate in that I have a tiny guesthouse – just 450 s/f – at the rear of my house.  It’s funny to have a guest house, since the main house is only 1100 s/f, but there it is!  It’s very cute [...]

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Improve Yourself!

March 31, 2010

I think this is one of the most exciting times in my life, as I give myself permission to learn things I’m interested in and pursue new avenues.
I have just signed up for a course from a fellow writer, Ev Bishop (www.evbishop.com), who is going to teach me about producing non-fiction articles and how to [...]

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Self-publishing? Well, maybe…

March 29, 2010

I’ve been writing about change and how important it is to recognize it and accept it when it is inevitable.  For that reason, I may reverse my position regarding self-publishing.
Just today, I examined a new site by an author called onthebookshelf.com.  It provides everything you need to put your book out there, available to download [...]

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Published!

March 25, 2010

I’m very excited today to see one of my articles published on the front of More Magazines ‘Reinvent Yourself’ section!
http://www.more.com/2010/13769-reinvention-shouldn-t-mean-going-broke
It is a confirmation of everything I feel my mentoring practice should convey.

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Managing My Time Better

March 24, 2010

Now that I have generated so much enthusiasm for myself by opening some exciting possibilities going forward, I am having trouble juggling all the things I must continue to do and my plans for the future.
So, I am going to take the advice of another excellent coach, Suzanne Evans, and I am going to map [...]

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I need a new word…

March 22, 2010

Yes, I need  a new word to describe my new thrust.  I am in training to be a coach, yet that word has acquired a negative connotation.  So many well-intentioned people who have no true skills have chosen to take the human race’s natural inclination to help others and try to make a living at [...]

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Some Days it’s Tough

March 16, 2010

to be positive. This morning is gray and wet and the news about our incredible deficit is so defeating.
Even more defeating is that so many of our elected officials are more concerned about re-election than they are about the future of our nation and our children.
So, I needed an antidote – a quick fix. [...]

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Phenomenal Women

March 10, 2010

There are lots of us out there reinventing ourselves.
Witness the More Reinvent Yourself Conference that Betsey (my partner) and I attended this past Monday.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI
We had a ball.  There were terrific speakers, women like Mika Brzezinski, who lost her high profile job as anchor on the CBS Evening News.  It took two years for her [...]

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Progress!

March 5, 2010

Day before yesterday, an article I wrote for More Magazine was posted for the day.
Yesterday, I received a delightful surprise – a request for the first three chapters of my book from one of the agents I queried.
Coincidentally, I had just attended an online conference from Writer’s Digest critiquing first pages submitted by aspiring novelists [...]

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Getting in my Own Way

March 4, 2010

Yep.  Don’t you do that too?  Set goals, feel wonderful about them, then slowly let them sink into the pool of unexecuted plans?
My coach Barbara has given me an assignment.  I made a confession to her.  I feel quilty about taking money for coaching other people.  That is sort of crazy, because I have helped [...]

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