Are You an Amateur or a Professional? How to Tell For Sure!

One of the toughest lessons I’ve ever had to learn in my nearly 10 years as a life coach is that I can’t save everyone. No matter how many doable strategies I provide, motivational emails I send, or accountability calls I make, there will still be clients who won’t do the work. Sometimes they need…

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The Next 12 Weeks Will Change Everything | 12 Week Edit

My client Linda is celebrating a huge win this week: she published her first book! This feat has been years in the making with too many starts and stops along the way. Like most Life Editors, she has beautiful dreams that somehow feel just out of reach. But not anymore! Three months ago, Linda put…

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10 Practical Tips for Startup Business Owners

Despite the fact that I market myself as a life coach, more than half of my clients don’t have any pressing life problems. Instead, they’re startup business owners who want to be more productive, more profitable, and less stressed. Thankfully, nearly all of my best life coaching strategies work for entrepreneurs too. We want to…

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Edit My Life! September 2020 | Life Update, Editorial Calendar

This is September, back-to-school season, and there’s just a hint of fall in the air. Well, maybe more than a hint if you’ve seen the crazy Halloween displays at Target or other stores. So I’m using this fall fresh start as a time to reset and revamp my routines. It’s time to edit MY life!…

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How to Stop Procrastinating for Good | 3 Procrastination Traps

Please imagine me doing my best impression of Admiral Ackbar: “IT’S A TRAP!!!” No, we’re not battling star destroyers or Darth Vader today, but we are fighting our way out of the common traps that stop us from living our happiest lives. When I first started my business (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth), procrastination weighed…

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How to Use Social Proof to Get Sales

Once I was researching social media managers, and I thought I had found the perfect woman to hire. Her website was slick and professional, she wore designer clothes, and her classy headshot looked like it had been taken by a professional photographer in a fancy studio. Yep, she oozed confidence and success, and her online headquarters…

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Why I’m Not a Certified Life Coach | My Controversial Decision

The best decision I ever made for my business was also my most controversial one. What? Me, controversial? While I might seem like a mild-mannered Life Editor who spends her days coaching clients, reading productivity books, and submitting to the whims of my perfect dog Skyla, in actuality, my very first choice as a life coach…

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