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Windmill, by Pazleonel
What to Do when your Situation isn't Changing Fast Enough

If you don’t feel like your situation is changing fast enough, it’s actually time to slow down.

What do you want?

Who do you want to be in the world?

Define who that person is (consider writing an opinion piece...

Seagull, by Keven Law
Getting out of your own Way

As women, sometimes we put our own roadblocks in front of us. The more we become successful, the greater the challenges that face us. And, incredibly, the larger the obstacle in our path, the more life-affirming, creative, and energizing is the solution --...

Pineapple, by GALodise
Hearty, Easy 5-Minute Meals

I’d like to share with you some of my hearty, easy 5-minute meals that I love to prepare when I’m in the middle of a busy day.

Prep ingredients before the week starts and have everything ready for your meals: just assemble and go.

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Successful Life Coaching Business Strategies You Can Apply In Your Own Life Coaching Career

We always desire for our life coaching business to succeed. However, not all life coaches are where they want to be now. The challenge is to move from that situation to another direction where the life coaching career can grow further. The following strategies may just...

Victory, from the Chrysler Superbowl 2011 Commercial
If You're Going to Fail, Fail Spectacularly

It's one thing to have a series of little failures along the way -- you can usually deal with a missed appointment, a broken friendship, a bounced check, or a small flaw.

It's quite another thing entirely to have a spectacular failure -- something that...

Roll of bills, by amagill
The Key to Building Net Worth

In the United States, it’s commonly known that retirement planning is a good thing.  Many employers offer retirement benefits, government agencies offer pensions, and Americans are generally encouraged to save money for retirement.  If the general...

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Choosing Modern Furniture for your Office

One's working environment plays a great role in how effective and productive you feel. With multiple distractions, it's easy to lose sight of your big picture-- but with a focused environment you're free to intently focus on your step-by-step goals. ...

Plum Leaf, by halfrain
101 Reasons to Be Successful

1) Every day is a wonderful day to be alive.
2) You no longer fear failure. In fact, the more failure you have, the more opportunity for more success.
3) You fulfill your life's purpose.
4) Your intention quickly and easily turns into your reality....

Bulova Watch
A Timepiece to Keep You on Track

It's February, and most of us are doing our best to keep up with resolutions. One of my resolutions is to show up- on time, focused, and prepared.

If I'm doing something (playing with my kids, talking with a client, walking) I aspire...

Yellow Flower, by Matsuo Amon
Better Living through Technology! (or, Do Fat-Burning Machines Belong in Your Life?)

From a purely mathematical perspective, if you consume more calories than you expend through your regular metabolism and exercise, you'll gain weight. Alternately, if you use up more calories than you drink or eat, you'll lose weight.

So many of the...

F Report card - by amboo woohoo
Not Everyone Gets an A+

I was an A+ student throughout K-12, so it was a real shocker when I got to my first semester at university and ended up on academic probation with a D average. Granted, it's an Ivy League school, I was taking 21 credits, spending hours in studio, and participating...

Escalator
Do the Best You Can With What You've Got

Sometimes, as busy wives, mothers, workers, and responsible people, we hold ourselves to very high expectations. This can be a challenge when we realize there just isn't enough time in the day to do all that is on our to-do list. 

During times of stress and...

Telephone
Why I Don't Answer the Telephone

I've been tracking my calls for the last three years through our provider, RingCentral, and I'm sorry to say that many of the unscheduled phone calls that I'm receiving come as totally cold leads from people I'm not likely to know. My scheduled phone...

Waikiki from the Air
How to Travel Light and Look Fabulous

Margaux Cameron is a guest blogger for An Apple a Day and a writer on sonography schools for Guide to Healthcare Schools.

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What’s Your Passion? Turn it into a Career

Find yourself heading in the right direction but not quite sure about next steps? Your work and your hobbies are two separate things? Don’t have much time to stop, assess, rethink, and restrategize? You need to talk and think it through with people who really listen...

Big Buildings - Makati
A Strong Foundation

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau

As you stretch into more solid, more powerful, and more certain areas of your life, you may find...

Snowman Figurine
How to End Your Year on a High Note

We are starting the last week of October, and I keep hearing business women talk about the upcoming holidays in November and December, with the thought that no business gets done during this time of the year.

Well, if you've had a challenging year, as most...

Women in Wine - Bordeaux
Women Winemakers of Bordeaux

Some occupations are most commonly thought-of as being male-dominated, such as automobile repair, neurosurgery, police detective work, civil engineering, firefighting, and airplane piloting. Even my own field, web design and development, remains heavily dominated by...

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Is Franchising Right for You?

If you're looking into starting your own business, consider franchising as an option.

Through a franchise, a person or group of people (franchisee) receives the right to market products and/or services using the trademark or trade name of an existing...

Abraham Lincoln
Honesty is the Best Policy

Your customers, clients, and associates want to know the "real" you. They want to know if they can trust you.

They want to know if your book will truly help them with their needs, or if your product will help them succeed, or if your...