Author: Paula
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Excuse Busting: Two Reasons I Make Excuses
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Over the last week I’ve thought a lot about excuses, still, since my time on CreativeLive with Michelle. It’s made me really get mindful about excuses when I hear them come up in my subconscious. On CreativeLive with Michelle Ward in her amazing “Create Your Dream Career” course Why am…
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Free Wallpaper Download: Excuses Rob Us Of Possibilities in the Future
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Embracing my new found title of “The Excuse Buster,” I tweeted this quote … “Excuses Rob Us of Possibilities in the Future.” It came to me after writing my last post. I paired it with a photo of a passionflower on a cement floor. Hardy and gorgeous, the passionflower grows…
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The Excuse Buster! Learning to Live Past the Excuses and Why I do It
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Tomorrow I get to wake up, put on a dress and a new sweater and go be on CreateLive with Michelle Ward as part of her “Create Your Dream Career” course. She’s bringing me on to talk about being an “Excuse Buster,” which surely fits me. I don’t know what…
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The Dream is Free, The Hustle is Sold Separately: The Recession is Bullhonkey with The When I Grow Up Coach
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Today I’m pretty excited because I have a little guest post action going on over at Michelle’s blog. She has a cool series she calls “The Recession is Bullhonkey,” and in today’s post I share a bit about my job journey over the last few years. Here’s my post. It…
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Big News! CreativeLive Interview with Michelle Ward
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Big news! One of my favorite people and THE all around awesome life coach, Michelle Ward, is going to be teaching a FREE three day course on CreativeLive on September 11-13. And, get this, she’s asked me to join her on that Friday to be part of an interview session!…
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Puff the Magic Dragon: A Boy and His Dragon
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My three year old son, who’s nickname around here is Zoom, loves dragons. I can’t say just when the fascination started, but it must have been a couple of years ago. It doesn’t completely surprise me that he loves the beasts, I too adored Elliot (Pete’s Dragon), and Puff. Puff…
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Struggling to Live a Balanced Life: How “Shoulds” Effect How We See Things
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My search for the last year has been specifically around finding balance, and it is the topic for the next retreat I am leading. And my experiences over the last year have been full of not only searching for balance, but also in trying to actually define what balance would…
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How One Business Trip Changed My Life, Or That Time I Went to New York and saw Kinky Boots
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In January, when I was still at my last job, my team was flying to New York for a bit meeting with out client. All of the agencies were gathering together for an annual meeting, and it was being held at BBDO New York. After what had been a very…
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My New Fitbit One and Losing Weight
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Over the last year, I gained about twenty pounds. If you’re a regular reader, you know I’m 4’10” and so that’s a rather substantial amount on my frame. Twenty pounds is nearly as much as I gained when I was pregnant! This last round of weight gain was from stress,…