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It Isn’t The Mountain That Wears You Out…
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the Big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out…it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. ~Robert Service
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Social Distancing. 21 Things To Do…
With the influx of the pandemic worldwide many regular activities have come to a halt. Kids are home from school. Businesses have closed or implemented work-from-home with only a skeletal staff in office. Things are just basically at a standstill. What can you do when the work stops? When maintaining Social Distance confines you to your home? Beauty Bites and Radical Transformation Projects gave a few tips. Here I share my personal favs of 21 things that you can try:
- Sleep. Go ahead. You’ve always wanted to do it. Now you’ve got the time. Do it
- Listen to an audio-book
- Create a vision board of your dream life and hang it where you can see it
- Read a book
- Start a blog
- Watch motivational speeches online
- Make a self-care kit for when you feel down
- Write poetry
- Plan your week, month, year!
- Learn a new recipe
- Write a list of things you are thankful for
- Dance! Dance in your home
- Go for a walk.
- Enjoy nature
- Make a list of things you’re grateful for
- Learn a new language
- Make a list of the places you would like to visit
- Declutter your phone
- Plan to do something different every month for the rest of the year
- Update your resume…just in case
- Connect spiritually
Try something new!
Cheers!
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Social Distance. 5 Ways To Greet Safely…
Here’s a hug for you, and for you, and one for you.
But Hold up! With the advent of the Corona virus we are not supposed to be hugging right? It’s called keeping your social distance. We are now forced to find new ways to greet others at social gatherings such as in the networking sphere.
5 Ways To Greet Safely
Here are 5 Ways:
- Look the person in the eye and use your feet to greet (shown in video). It’s called the Wuhan Shake.
- Wave to say hello
- Fist Bump
- Head nod
- Just say hello
There are tons more circulating but for now as we battle the Corona health pandemic, these should help bridge the gap.
Cheers!
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Ditch It. Switch It. A Story…
Most of us have only one story to tell. I don’t mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there’s only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. The tale of someone’s life begins before they are born.
Listen to my interview with former Regional Director turned Radio personnel, singer, songwriter, Poet and Musician shares how he Ditched It to do what he loves in order to follow his passion. Learn the strategies he used.
Most important his audience was exposed to the inner secrets of the man behind the mic.
Stay tuned for new book soon to be released “Your Career: Ditch It. Switch It”
Cheers!
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Time Wasters. Manipulators Among The 5 Kinds Of Toxic People
They give headaches. Increase stress…and Simply make your life miserable. Living with one? Whew! Working with one? May God help you! (yep). But whatever your situation…Do something about it!
In my Success Strategies workbook, I outlined 8. Here are 10 kinds Jeffrey Moore posited. I’ll share my top 5 from his list. Check his 10 kinds of Toxic People for more including descriptions.
Toxic People
1.Time Wasters
2.The Victim
3.The Always Negatives
4.Manipulators
5.The Always Stressed Out
But how do you deal with them? Stay tuned to learn more in my soon to be released book Ditch It. Switch It.
From those listed here, what are your top 5? Do share. We would love to hear!
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Someday I Will…
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. ~Arthur Golden
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. ~Arthur Golden
Someday I will do this. Someday I will do that.
How many of us often sit or live at the ‘wishing well’ that someday I’ll do this, or that. Someday I’ll get that perfect body. I’ll have that perfect house, job, spouse, marriage with the perfect kids; go on that dream vacation, and much more! Oh if wishes were horses so many would ride.
Someday is Today
Why not let someday be today? I reflect on the movie Hidden Figures where each of the three women at NASA — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into space.
The inaugural team at NASA decided to step out and do something that was never done before. From the astronaut, NASA’s president, the…
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Writer To Entrepreneur: Top 11 Steps To Success…
You can make anything by writing.”
–C.S. Lewis
Developing your writing craft is not easy. As authors we stick to it because it’s our passion. The zeal with which we are connected is likened to a web but one in which we wish not to escape.
Many are the traditional thinking that authors hardly make money, let alone survive while working on their craft. But what do you say to the likes of Stephen King, Poet Maya Angelou, Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling and countless others. You may say that they are successful because they are well known. Banish that thought and delve into the story of Stephen King who was rejected so many times that he actually threw in the trash his best selling novel. Were it not for his wife, the world would not have enjoyed this story’s amazing work.
So here I share excerpts of my presentation on the topic of “From Books to Bucks”, held at the South Florida’s Writers Book Festival.
Books 2 Bucks
- Write Quality Work
- Books can have babies. Think of workbooks, series, and so much more
- Convert your book to Audio
- Create an audience through tapping into Podcast listener-ship
- Translate your Book into a different language. Oh the new audience it brings
- Convert your book to film, movie, documentary
- Written non-fiction? Immense business opportunities exists. Think of workshops, Spoken-Word, how-to events and more
- In the arts? Use your book as the stepping stone to fashion and design
- Want to develop and grow your passion? Stick with the right people
- Become a Conference Speaker. Share your expertise
- Don’t sit on it, enter your book for an Award
Want to go from Books to Bucks, Select from the list, focus your craft on the point(s) you believe you will get best win, then promote, promote, promote. Marketing your work is the key to success and it does not have to cost you a ton. Use social media wisely. It can help you grow into something you never thought you could be.
I end with encouraging you to Be Serious about your craft. SHOW UP and promote, promote, promote.
Cheers!
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Life. Take. Another. Shot.
Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. Develop from the negatives and if things don’t turn out – just take another shot.
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Do Something That Don’t Interest You…
That’s how you grow. Be curious. Do something that don’t interest you. Sounds contrary to today’s thinking right? But it’s a valuable lesson. Many are the career paths and relationships that we never thought would interest us.
HBR Writer Joseph Grenny shared in his stance on being creative on the go. Included in it was his stance on doing something that does not interest you. Personally, I never thought of photography but based on my writing interest developed years ago, I realized that I needed photographs to go with my social media posts. Rather than buying, I chose to take them. This has developed an unexpected interest in photography through taking just about anything. My preferred pics include nature, the sand, sea, waves, and just about anything other selfie-takers may miss around them.
So today I encourage you to do something different. Who knows you may find a new delectable pleasure you can’t resist.
Cheers!
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Maps: My Muse, My Story.
My Travel. My Muse. Maps and my Story.
What’s yours?
Where I’m From
Jamaica. Lazy Beaches. No Problem
Where I’ve Lived
Florida. The Sunshine State
Washington DC. The Nation’s Capital
Furthest I’ve Traveled
Where I Want to Go
Venice. Dreams of Cafes and Gondola
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Don’t Be Scared. Ask.
Don’t be afraid. Ask
Heart pounding. I reached for the phone ….10 times. Scared. How can I ask? They will say no or think I’m factitious. But the feeling of uneasiness, discomfort and pain would not go away. So pride aside, I picked up the phone.
They said yes.
Aren’t we all like that at times? Whether its a job, promotion, increase, entrepreneurial venture, or relationship, we encounter sleepless nights and stress because we are afraid to ask. Our wants, desires and needs go unfulfilled because we are afraid to ask.
But…
Asking alleviates confusion, conflict, clarifies, and resolves our challenges and issues. Most important it helps us grow and creates a feeling of importance and joy to the person who has the answer.
But what if they respond negatively? What if they don’t? Go ahead and ask….I dare you?
Cheers!
