If you spend any time at all on social media, you’ve probably heard the word “connect” thrown around a lot. Don’t just post updates, experts advise, but connect with people in your social networks. Perhaps the better word to use is engage or interact, both of which are very different from connect. To connect implies [...]
Category Archives: authenticity
There’s a New skirt! in Town
If you read this blog regularly, you know that posts are often…lacking. I don’t post very often because, quite honestly, I struggle with what to write about. Sure, the purpose of this blog is to recount my experiences as a self-employed, freelance writer and single mother. Which leaves me the opportunity to talk about motherhood. [...]
You go! You gorgeous, talented, fabulous you!
“We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.” Those words from writer Marianne Williamson have touched people around the world, because they [...]
I am what I am…except when I'm on Twitter
As a writer, there are two times when I experience anxiety about what to say: 1) when I’m working on a project with a new client whom I want to impress, and 2) when I’m preparing to send an update on Twitter. It sounds ridiculous, I know. I, who am never at a loss for [...]
Straight, no chaser: the truth about my "fearless reinvention"
“A closed mouth never gets fed,” so the saying goes. Over the past week, I have learned first-hand that this is true. My prayers—that business would come, that clients would find me—have been answered several-fold. Now, I’ve been busy marketing myself, mind you, through social media, networking, and writing articles. But much of my new [...]
A lesson in compassion
“You invest time, energy, hours and funds in yourself and others without really noticing how differently you are presenting yourself to the world. To those who come in contact with you, you are different.” -Jonathan Fields My local Starbucks is my second home. To throwback to a popular 80′s sitcom, everybody knows my name. No [...]
When you get the chance to stand out, take it
“Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner’s manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.” — Oprah Winfrey I received the email shortly after I’d sent my client the first draft of copy for her website. “Absolutely fabulous!!!” it [...]
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