Edit My Life! October 2020 | WFH Office Tour

Admit it, 2020 has been downright scary already, and it’s not even Halloween yet! But I’m not letting the chaos of this year dampen my spirit. That’s a little ghost humor for ya. 🙂 Your treat for today is the next installment of my Edit My Life series where I show you the changes I’m…

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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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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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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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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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Editor’s Notebook 198

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 the Pandemic Has Us Buying Roller Skates and Baking Bread. Have you been stress-buying lately? OMG PUPPERS! 11 Ways Puppies Can Improve Your Health. Because…

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Mid-Year Edit! 5 Ways to Restart Your 2020

For many of us, 2020 has been a doozy of a year . . . and we’re only halfway through it. Natural disasters, political unrest, pandemic, quarantine, job loss, systemic racism, and police brutality are just a few of the challenges we’ve been thrown into. But here’s the truth: your old life isn’t coming back.…

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