Every time I publish a blog post, I immediately post a link to the post on twitter and Facebook. That process always annoys me. Why? For one thing, there is a huge world beyond those places and as someone who makes a living helping others market themselves and their businesses, it irks me that my [...]
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I was a Kindergartener in Mrs. Gale’s class and I was afraid. On the surface, everything was just fine. I loved school. I loved learning, although it would be years before I felt it was OK to show how smart I was. I had a nice teacher and equally nice friends. Things were good at [...]
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you” ~ Maya Angelou We all have different reasons for wanting (and needing) to tell our stories: Some people want to make lots of money. Some want millions of people to read their story. Some want inner peace and prefer to keep their [...]
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Text: You’ve been scarce. Facebook Message: Dude, what happened to you? DM: Are you dead? These are the questions I have been getting. Without planning or really any forethought, I disappeared for a spell from the very real world of twitter and for over a month from the very real world of this blog. I [...]
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Hi and welcome to the Write Your Mess™ program! You have arrived at this page which means you are in and ready to go. Look for your Week 1 lesson in your email inbox today. Also, be sure to access your bonuses here. Questions? Issues? Feedback? Email writeyourmess [at] gmail dot com. So happy to [...]
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Last year on this day, I was having a sort of “full circle” feeling. I was looking at the year from its beginning on New Year’s Eve 2008/2009 when I had an epiphany moment that changed the course of my life forever to New Year’s Even 2009/2010 on which I found myself in New York [...]
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Yesterday, in the middle of a weekday, I uncharacteristically rewarded myself. No, not a drink. Not a drive to the beach. No chocolate. No bling. Not the mall. Nope, none of those. All I need is half an hour in TJ Maxx and I have a big enough dose of deliciousness to last for some [...]
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That’s the go-to advice when the question is “What do I write about?” And like many things that are cliched or over-used, it is actually true: Writing what you know is the basis for beautiful, brilliant, true life stories. So today, in the middle of a week in which I’ve faced some hard facts (mostly [...]
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Call me compulsive or unrealistic or weird (and you’d be more accurate than not), but when I look at where I have been, where I am and where I long to be (and know I will be), I like to look at the threads that tie my not-so-separate stories together. And sometimes, when I am [...]
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