Life Editor’s Picks: Organize Your Life

I may seem like a fairly organized person. Yep, I know where to find any random charger, notebook, or file in my home office. But I wasn’t always such a neat entrepreneur. After I started my business, it took me many months and dozens of tools to get it together. Taming junk drawers and developing…

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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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Editor’s Notebook 203

The Editor’s Notebook is my place to share the things I’m loving this week and other random links that have caught my eye. Enjoy! What I’m Loving This Week 15 Tried-and-True Ways to Get Over Your Reading Slump. A little editing can bring back your reading spark. Give Up These Things If You Feel like…

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How to Use SMART Goals for Success (With Examples!)

It’s been a decade since I spent my days as a book editor cleaning up medical textbook manuscripts and proofreading what felt like millions (billions?) of newsletters, podcast scripts, and teaching manuals. But even though my book editor days are long behind me, I still find myself reaching for my trusty red pen. So what am I crossing out,…

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Editor’s Notebook 201

The Editor’s Notebook is my place to share the things I’m loving this week and other random links that have caught my eye. Enjoy! What I’m Loving This Week Why Are We All So Lonely? Feeling lonely and being alone are two very different experiences. Authors Don’t Owe You Books. A deep discussion of the…

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Life Editor’s Picks: Cute Time Savers

If you had to make a choice between getting extra time or extra money, which would you choose? I advise all my clients to choose time over anything else. Why? Because time is NOT a renewable resource. Once those minutes pass by, they’re gone for good. But on the flip side, money is definitely renewable.…

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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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