Low-Hanging Fruit: Your Productivity Sweet Spot

So recently, I was having one of those days. You know, the ones where nothing—and I mean nothing—gets done. I had it all planned out that I was going to be super productive and make huge strides with my business. I mapped out my to-do list the night before, got to bed early, and figured…

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Editor’s Notebook 5

The Editor’s Notebook posts are 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 Build a Successful Creative Blog. I’m in the middle of a 3-day workshop hosted by the talented April Bowles-Olin, and I’m learning so many fantastic…

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Editor’s Notebook 4

The Editor’s Notebook posts are 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 Grammar’s Great Divide: The Oxford Comma. My grammar may be more loosey goosey now that I’m no longer a book editor, but I’ll always love…

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Why I Blog and What It’s Done for My Business

I started my blog for the sole purpose of participating in a fashion challenge, but once the challenge was over, I needed to figure out what to do with my blog. It didn’t feel authentic to me to continue sharing “outfit of the day” posts, so my blog slowly morphed into a place where I…

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Editor’s Notebook 2

The Editor’s Notebook posts are 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 The Habits of Successful People: They Start Small. Baby steps, baby steps, baby steps. If you’re procrastinating, then your tasks aren’t small enough. Break ‘em…

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Editor’s Notebook 1

Welcome to the very first Editor’s Notebook! If you’re anything like me (and of course you are—why else would you be reading my blog?), then you probably have dozens of notebooks, scribbled-on bits of paper, and Post-Its all over the place. That’s how editors’ minds work. We have hundreds of creative ideas spinning around our…

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Big Girls Don’t Cry…At Work

I’m the type of person who cries during corny TV commercials. And music videos… And at weddings… And watching Disney movies… It’s kind of embarrassing when I collapse into a blubbering mess of emotions, but sometimes it’s hard to stop myself. But no matter how emotional I may feel, there’s one place I will never,…

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