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Work but don’t forget to Live!

January 31, 2013

To finish out this first month of 2013 and the January Ultimate Blog Challenge, first I just want to thank all the bloggers who stopped by and left comments and suggestions. I appreciate it greatly and enjoyed returning the favors.  Second, as an owner of a thriving home business and busy mom of three and [...]

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How to make your quotes more shareable on social media.

January 28, 2013

Your favorite quote plus a free online service called Quozio, and what do you get?  A cool way to make the quotes more noticeable and more likely to be shared!   I have had so much fun in this month's Ultimate Blog Challenge. I know my topics and posts have been all over the place [...]

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Reviewing a few of my favorite garden seed catalogs!

January 13, 2013

Gardening fever usually hits me right after Christmas and I have to fight the urge to sit for hours pouring over seed catalogs and 2013 garden magazines to the exclusion of all else. Yesterday's goal was to get every bit of the Christmas decorations put back up in the attic, but I sat down to [...]

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Do you have a blogging plan or are you winging it?

January 1, 2013

  Do you have a blogging plan, that is a written out plan for the week or month so that you know ahead of time what you are going to blog about? Or do you do like I have done in the past and make a goal of one new blog post a week or [...]

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What’s more important, how or if you build your dream board?

December 31, 2012

*screenshot taken of an example of my dreamboard on Oprah.com   Dream boards are not a new thing. People have been making these dream collages for years by clipping pictures and words from magazines and catalogs and gluing them to cardboard or pinning to bulletin boards or even taping to the front of the fridge [...]

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Will the Real YOU, please stand up?

August 27, 2012

You hear it all the time, …”but I’m a [Team Beachbody] coach and I fell off the wagon and fell out of my workout routine and then I stopped at DQ and ate a hot fudge sundae and fixed fried chicken for supper…WITH gravy. Ohhhh..I’m a terrible example. I’m a bad coach.” No. You are [...]

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Grab my free app and stay connected on the go!

August 20, 2012

We’ve been talking a lot about apps this month at our house, although it’s been an ongoing discussion ever since my oldest son taught himself how to program apps for the iPhone. That was when he was 15. He then started taking classes at the local college during his last 3 home school years. I [...]

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A free book? Are you kidding me?

November 8, 2011

If I wanted to learn how to fly, I'd find a pilot who teaches flying lessons. Well, I wanted to learn how to serve my customers better online as well as offline. So I started searching for a teacher; a mentor who I could relate to, who was honest and transparent and who had been [...]

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Social media: Is it a waste of time?

September 28, 2011

"Social media is either a time-wasting, woolgathering, yak-shaving waste of effort, or perhaps, just maybe, it's a crack in the wall between you and the rest of the world." Seth Godin in the article Ways to Reinvent Yourself  Success Magazine   So is it a waste of time? It depends. Are you checking online every [...]

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