Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
Ok today’s is short and sweet. This topic’s idea didn’t spring to mind like the last two did. Which is ok.
Afterall, Gwen has given us a ton of freedom in this wonderful writing adventure called The Best of 09 Blog Challenge.
So I thought about what had impacted me over the year. In a way where I revisted it several times. And I wracked my brain… article, article, article. And nothing. Because well, I read a lot.
Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
Well this is just too easy. And fun. I was just tweeting about it the other day.
But first, here’s some back story…
I heart Sagittarius. No this isn’t another astrology post. Most of the time, astrology does manage to sneak into a lot of what I like to write about. However, since it is Sagittarius time, I’ll share with you a little bit more about just why I love it so much.
Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
With an ‘s.’ Because I didn’t go anywhere big this year. Not like in 2008 when I saw tulips in Holland’s largest flower garden, canals in Amsterdam and oh yeah, Greece. Six Cyclades islands and Athens (yes, all the current photos on this here blog).
Ok, I admit it. It took me the better part of this whole day to decide if I was going to do this.
Had I just followed my first instinct after reading the tweet and then checking out Gwen Bell‘s The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, I would have signed on to do it without much afterthought. Instead, I watched just about every person-who-I-follow-on-Twitter say yes over and over to this writing challenge for the duration of the day.
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while. For a long while actually. But holding back for various reasons, a multitude of them. I seem to have an endless supply of reasons “not to” as well as a very bad habit of holding back which I’m working on.
I’ve been really wanting to talk about some very personal stuff. To tell “my part” of a certain story. And since I’m a coach and all that, the first thing I like to do is check my intention. Why do I want to tell the story? Is it really for me or do I secretly have some other agenda… like to make someone pay or eat shit (which is totally not my style) or for some other low-lying fear-based reason.
Tech Savvy 101 is a series of posts designed to help demystify some terminology so you can get your brain around what it really takes to start getting your tech savvy on.
Yesterday, I talked about the importance of defining core values early on in the web creation process because it provides an anchor, to help you remember, when things get freaky-deeky. Knowing your own values gives you a rope to hold onto to guide you back to a simpler time… when you were clear about what makes you blissfully happy and why the heck you are doing this in the first place.
This being creating that blog or web site for your business.
Tech Savvy 101 is a series of posts designed to help demystify some terminology so you can get your brain around what it really takes to start getting your tech savvy on.
Are you letting worry and concern over the perfect look and feel get in the way of getting clear about who you are and who you serve?
When a smart creative woman considers establishing herself on the web, the questions she’ll be answering first or even close to middle way through, are not about the look and feel.
The Look & Feel Never Comes First
Unless you’re a web designer.
Or How To Scare Yourself Write to The Edge
I’ve noticed this thing, it’s in me and a lot of the wonderfully creative ambitious women I talk to everyday, this idea that we need permission.
Permission to be ourselves. Permission to follow our hearts & dreams. Permission to receive and allow in the giving from others. And when it comes to your technology and getting your blog on, spattering your web pages with words, with the juice of your heart and giving yourself permission to write. Permission to call yourself a writer.
I’m afraid to write. I’m afraid to be me. I’m afraid to say what I really think… or you’ll go run and hide. All the little thoughts that boil up when I get ready to do something important.
Me and my random thoughts. Yet how random are they?
When I stop and look and listen, I see the thread of fear running through all of it.
A fear of being wrong. Wrong-shaped. Wrong smarts. Wrong for the job. Wrong for success.
Wrong for you. Whoever you might be in this moment.
Blogger For A Business Website? A 3-post series for considering Blogger.com instead of building a traditional website.
Is Your Website Just Sitting There?
Everyone meet Julie Johnston from http://www.heartofthespirit.com. She is one of my most favorite people on the planet right now, not just because we share the same birthday either.
Julie has a website for her business as a psychic medium where she does remote healings and stuff over the phone plus works with people in person. She is super coolio and down to earth and occasionally bangs on drums or gives me special animal friends to help me with my own healing processes in her special “Julie” ways.
