Life as a Creative is so stinkin’ unpredictable that I made a decision that I’ve been putting off for about as long as I can. I don’t see any miracles peeking around the corner, so I bit the bullet and officially retired. Not that I’m quitting. I’m just calling in my chips. I[…]
In a little while Sue and I will be heading to the Orting trail for another bike ride. I’ve ridden 105 miles so far this spring; Sue has ridden 95. I’ve already lost the three pounds I gained over the winter so I’m one happy camper and hoping to lose another ten pounds[…]
I think I just dodged a bullet, but it’s no fun losing potential long-term work that I know would have helped the client succeed wildly. A couple of blogs ago I mentioned a fellow who wants someone to write blogs for him. We corresponded for about two weeks, off and on, and he[…]
I’m looking for you (yes, YOU!) if you want to help a businessperson or entrepreneur you adore who is struggling and shouldn’t be because their product, service or cause is EXCEPTIONAL but their website and other marketing materials are sub-par. You won’t have to get involved in any other way than to send me[…]
…to start cooking nutritious meals at home. After editing a book about the amount of shady sugar that is shoveled into the now-standard American diet, I have come to realize that I’m essentially addicting (and poisoning) myself when I go shopping because of the choices I make. I get boxed, bagged and bottled goods instead[…]
I have a baby monitor in the goat shed. I put it out the first time just before my two does had triplets (yes, they both had triplets) so I could hear what was going on out there and come a’runnin’ at the first audible indication of labor pains. It worked great: I was able[…]
I edited a chapter about sugar addiction for a doctor to see if he liked what I can do. He did, so he hired me to edit the other nine chapters, too. WOO HOO! Whoever he had write the draft that I received from him was too wordy and too impressed with him/herself as[…]
Today I got three more people in my corner. This morning’s 723 Building Business speaker, Kelly (Brandman University) says she is going to see if the military contact she knows would like to hear from me with regard to teaching some of my copy writing classes (30 Second Introductions/Commercials, Your Professional Bio, Your Core[…]
This morning I wrote three letters of introduction about my availability as a speaker/teacher/trainer. Next, I posted a request online to all my networking groups asking them to send me contact info to other groups they know of, the schools their kids attend, and any military folks they know who schedule training for enlisted men[…]
Today at Face2Face Spanaway/Parkland the moderator, Dennis Willis, gave Candace Thompson (Wild Child Group Ltd) the floor to do a quickie Mastermind demonstration. When Candace asked for volunteers to raise their hands to be the business to tweak, I threw mine up immediately. The woman is amazing and knows business from the ground up better[…]