Author: Paula
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How to Study for the PMP Exam When You’re Busy
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As part of my “Ten in Three,” I’m studying to become PMP (Project Management Professional) Certified. It’s a crazy four hour test that covers the contents of the Project Management Book of Knowledge, and if that doesn’t make it sound fun enough, it’s also a requisite of my current job…
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Add Intern Supervisor to My Resume. And, Let’s Talk About Wedding Dresses.
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I tend to freeze up and stop blogging when I’m super busy. Or sometimes I freeze up when I’m faced with things that are just too big to jump in and explain in a quick blogging format. Right now, I’m just plain-old-fashioned-busy. At work, I’m supervising three interns. It’s a…
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California Coastal Wedding Ideas: Location, Bakeries, Shoes, and A Song from the Movie Babe
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The first of my “ten in three” goals is to get married! Sean and I are currently working at getting details polished and ready to go, and I find that it is both fun and so totally all-encompassing to be planning a wedding. I find that I really do want…
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The Search for Balance: New Priorities as a Working Mother
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I’m no stranger to busy-ness. I work, I have a three year old son, and I’m studying for the PMP (Project Management Professional) exam, I’m planning a wedding, and planning a retreat. Appropriately, the retreat is on …. balance. Life Changes Make us Rethink PrioritiesBalance has been that thing I’ve…
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A Twenty Year Reunion at UC Santa Barbara
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A couple of weeks ago we packed up the car and headed south to Santa Barbara for a twenty year reunion of myself and five of my closest buddies. Here’s part of the road near Cachuma Lake. I love those California Live Oaks. The planning for the trip had started…
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About My Last Year in a Terrible Job or Why I Left Advertising
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In the book Abundant Simplicity by Jan Johnson, I discovered a quote that hit home pretty hard for me. “Marketing folks have identified the masters we don’t even know we are serving. ‘Marketing theory says that people are driven by fear, by the promise of exclusivity, by guilt and by…
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Ten in Three: My Plan Over the Next Three Years
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In my sheepish return, I said I had some big plans over the next three years. So, let’s cut to the chase and get sharing! In October of last year I started working with a life coach, the wonderful and amazeballs Michelle Ward. I was working at a very terrible…
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A Sheepish Hello!
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Welcoming Spirit has sat dormant for a year, and so I’m a bit sheepish as I come back and say a quiet “hello!” It’s been a year of big learnings, of bad jobs, and strange days. I was trying so very hard to find balance, and over the course of…
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The Bravest Thing, Running Through the Fields
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The first thing I read this morning, as I lay in my bed, just waking up was this, shared by my friend Kathy on Facebook. the bravest thing by the beautiful due maybe the bravest thingis opening your eyes in themorning and placing yourtwo feet on the cold floor andrising…