…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
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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
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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
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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
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I’ll admit it: I have Christmas Tree Brain. I’m so excited about this launch that it was hard to put my head on the pillow last night. So I spent a couple hours late last night getting the word out on social media to let my friends and business associates know that my new site
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A lot of copywriters are shameless automatons: they will give you what you say you want instead of what you actually need. This past week I’ve had two clients who were asking for the wrong things and would have gotten lackluster results(zero or seriously anemic) had I agreed to abide by their wishes. In the
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About a year ago I was at a networking meeting. The moderator polled the group of some 35 people, asking them to write on a piece of paper what they know they needed to do for their business that they hadn’t been doing. More than three quarters of the answers were “Marketing.” It floored me.
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I was out with the goats beyond the fence line for an hour or so this morning before the big, bad, drippy clouds rolled in. I hear we may get a wintry day sometime in the next 24 hours for about the third time in the Pacific NW this year , so I’ve super-duper filled
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I got some awesome news today. I was expecting to receive a monthly pension of about $73/month (lifetime annuity) from my time at a major motion picture studio . As it turns out , it will be $373/month! What a godsend! Receiving it is still nearly a year away, as is Medicare, but I’m very
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