A Personal Note: This is My Legacy

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What Will People Remember About You? I opened my email one day last week to learn that someone I have written about more than once in my blog, Dan Miller, was ending his podcast of 17 years due to a recent diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Although I had not been in contact with Dan in…

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Three Questions to Simplify Your Life

Creating Focus Counts Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains.  Steve Jobs What if you had one minute to describe your business? What if you had…

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Stuck in your job?

What to do in the meantime. Do you spend as much time complaining about your job as you do working on your job? Are you envious of co-workers who have left but feel like you will never be able to leave? Are there so many obstacles to leaving your job that you get overwhelmed and give up just thinking…

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Got a vision for your future?

Three steps to creating work you can love “I’ve drawn a line in the sand.  I’m quitting this job at the end of the year, come hell or high water.” “This is absolutely the last time I’m working a holiday season.” “I can’t take the stress any more.  I’m retiring at the end of the…

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Changing the world

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One Business at a time You are meant to make a difference in the world. Don’t underestimate the power of your message. It starts with mental clarity–the clearer you are on your possibilities and your impact the greater your focus. When you are focused, nothing can stop you. But it’s not all vision. It’s following…

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Five Tips to Tap Into Your Creative Spirit

We All Are Creative Every creative is challenged with how to best structure their life to engage in creative pursuits. Just how do you get the work done? How do you tap into that creative spirit? Do you require yourself to spend a designated amount of time every day working on your craft, no matter…

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What is holding you back?

 Three Mindsets that Keep You Stuck One of my favorite books is Who Moved My Cheese?  by Spencer Johnson.  I especially like the children’s version with it’s colorful pictures and clever text. As a school counselor, I read the story in classrooms and discussed the behavior of the four characters with children. I’ve also loaned…

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Living a purposeful life

Three ways to live a life of purpose Are you living the life you wish to live? Or are you living a life of comfortable complacency? I believe we all have a mission or a calling in life.  It might not be a big world wide mission like caring for the dying as Mother Teresa…

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What is your calling?

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Trying to figure out your calling? Do you feel like everyone else knows their calling, except you? Do you feel like you have been trying to figure it out for too long? Do you just want things to fall into place so you can move on? One of the things that I do in Dream…

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How do you find your passion?

Finding your passion through discovery Is your job also your passion? Could it be?   What if it were possible to be passionate about the 9-5 that you show up for every morning? A 2014 Gallup poll found that more than two thirds of workers were not only disengaged in their work… they were actively…

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