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Category: ten in three

  • Three Wedding Cakes: One for the Bride, One for the Groom, One for Our Son

    Our wedding last month was gorgeous and wonderful. We have plenty of photos to show you from our wedding photographer (check out this Rhode Island wedding photography firm if you’re looking for a similar photographer to ours in the Rhode Island area), so get ready to be inundated with snaps!…

  • A Sneak Peek of Our Coastal Wedding in Northern California

    Three weeks ago, Sean and I got married. We chose a little town, up on the coast for the location. It’s a place we love, a place we visit a lot. We had 30 guests, eight of whom were age seven and under.  It was perfect. Such dear family and…

  • Excuse Busting: Two Reasons I Make Excuses

    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…

  • Free Wallpaper Download: Excuses Rob Us Of Possibilities in the Future

    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…

  • The Excuse Buster! Learning to Live Past the Excuses and Why I do It

    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…

  • Big News! CreativeLive Interview with Michelle Ward

    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!…

  • Struggling to Live a Balanced Life: How “Shoulds” Effect How We See Things

    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…

  • How One Business Trip Changed My Life, Or That Time I Went to New York and saw Kinky Boots

    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…

  • How to Study for the PMP Exam When You’re Busy

    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…