As an entrepreneur, I have two branches of my business that I manage. The first is related to the Army and the second is related to writing. I sometimes find it hard to go back and forth between the military world and the writing world. I have accounts for each on several different social media [...]
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I ran across this post at Man vs. Debt entitled How NOT To Suck At Blogging. I must admit that the title itself is what pulled me into the post and the site. Suck is a word in my vocabulary that is rather common. My dad used to try to convince me that crap and [...]
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This is a tough one for me to swallow, personally. But I absolutely must learn that I can’t please everybody all the time. In fact, I probably can’t please even some of the people all of the time. In one of my businesses, I routinely deal with hundreds of people on a daily basis. This [...]
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Since I was very young, writing has been an outlet for me to clear my head. I blast my iPod and just start writing. I don’t pay attention to grammar, spelling or punctuation. Just write what comes to mind. It has always brought me comfort to be able to write about my thoughts. It makes [...]
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This is a question I have been struggling with as of late. What is my purpose in life? Am I fulfilling it? Do I do any thing that is truly meaningful? I must say, I am still looking for the answer and I’m not sure I have found it yet. There are parts of my [...]
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I must admit that procrastination has always been a strength of mine. I routinely put things off to the last minute and actually feel like I work a little better when the pressure is on. But with this project, there was no way I could wait until the last minute to get started and complete [...]
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Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. This is a quote I found today by Mark Twain and it is so true. When I started working for myself, I had more naysayers around me than cheerleaders. [...]
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We have all heard about the superwoman mom who is expected to juggle everything from the household to the kids to a full-time job. Before I had a baby, I thought I could easily manage it all. After all, I had faced challenges in the past where colleagues left and their work was dumped on [...]
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Some are probably wondering where the connection between the two subjects lies. For me, it is a very important connection. When I chose to venture out on my own, I changed my world completely. Though I sometimes wonder what in the world I am doing, I could not be happier to be living the life [...]
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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” ~Mark Victor Hansen [...]
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