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Dear
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Happy New Year!
Or maybe not! The gentleman I greeted with Happy New Year responded by saying, “What’s so happy about it?” Have you noticed that lots of people seem to be walking around with that attitude? It’s the economy. The worst is yet to come. The unemployment rate is so high. There’s just no way to get ahead right now. The sky is falling!
Don’t get caught up in this! The more we all talk about how awful it is, the more awful it will get. It’s called “collective consciousness.” Resolve right now to get through the next 24 hours without complaining about anything. Then the next 24 and the next 24 and so on. When we stop complaining and start looking at what we DO have and what we CAN do, our minds become creative and life gets better. Ok, so maybe some of us have to tighten our belts a bit. I’ve given up the gym membership. I never went there anyway. I’ve eliminated all the automatic send out birthday card sites I belong to on the net. I’ve cut down my use of credit cards and grouped my errands to specific parts of town on specific days to save on gasoline. If we each look at our lives, there are lots of little changes we can make that will, in the long run, make our lives better.
This is the time to act. Prepare yourself for a better future. Expand your skills. Do something new that you’ve always wanted to do. Find a charity and give the gift of your time. Feed the homeless for a few days and you’ll realize how fortunate you are just to have a roof over your head and food on the table. Plan for brighter days ahead. Take some time to relax and dream. Eat chocolate. My dad once told me that things would never get so bad that I couldn’t run away from them. Now, I’m not suggesting you run away. I’m just wanting you to realize there is another way. If one thing isn’t working, try something else.
If indeed the sky is falling, then “sell sky.”
Yamte*,
* You Are More Than Enough
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By Gregory A. Kompes, The Writerpreneur
You must treat your career like a business. This requires that you build your business just as any entrepreneur does by planning, working hard, promoting, and taking advantage of technology.
What do you think when you hear the word branding? Does Coca-Cola or FedEx come to mind? Their logos and colors just popped into your head, right? This is branding. Solid brands build loyal customers.
Writers and speakers benefit from brand recognition just like products. What about Boston Legal or Desperate Housewives? Did your favorite show characters come to mind? Think of Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Tony Roberts, or Stephen R. Covey. Even if you’ve never read their books or heard them speak, you know these names and their genres. For writers and speakers, branding is the process of creating a perception that you are the best person for the job. It’s about building your image.
Everything the public sees about you, even your daily correspondence strengthens your position as an expert and creates your brand recognition.
An easy way to begin your branding program today: take advantage of email signatures. Email signatures are those few lines of text at the bottom of every email you send. They’re easy to create and can automatically be included in your emails. Think of them as a virtual business card.
You can access the signature creation option in your email program by clicking on the “Options” or “Preferences” link and following the simple directions provided. In most cases, you’ll type your signature into a box and click “include with every email.”
Diana Burrell, co-author of The Renegade Writer and Query Letters that Rock, goes a step further using multiple signatures. She recommends that you “customize your signature depending on who an email is going to.” Diana has different signatures for personal, press, client, and interview emails.
A few email signature rules: Keep it to six lines or less; Provide your contact information, especially your email and web addresses; Don’t use cute messages, they don’t brand you as a professional; Do include your current marketing message (promote your new book or project); Change your signature on a regular basis–at least once a month.
Author Unknown
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit!
We all have milestones in our lives. These are the events that stand out as turning points and mark the passage of time. From the gold star in kindergarten for good manners to our most recent promotion, these are the successes that have defined who we are. Make a list of yours.
Then ask yourself the following questions:
- Where do I want to go from here?
- What do I daydream about?
- What would I do if I had the courage to go after my dreams?
- Where will I begin?
“The Ultimate Cat Lover”
HCI Publications
Shotsie: Career Cat
By Judi Moreo
One day I came home from work and found a blanket on the stairway. It was a bit startling as I thought perhaps someone had broken into my home. I don’t leave blankets on the staircase. After checking the house thoroughly, I discovered that nothing else had been disturbed. Strange. How could that blanket have gotten there?
A few days later, I came home to find that a dishtowel had been moved upstairs. It was on the floor in the bathroom next to dirty clothes basket. I was beginning to wonder if I had ghosts. Maybe there was such a thing after all.
This continued for several months with anything that seemed to be left out of place ending up next to the dirty clothes basket in the bathroom. Maybe this ghost had a need to have everything in its place.
One morning I woke up with a terrible cold and decided to stay at home in bed. About midmorning I was awaken by my cat, Shotsie, a chocolate Burmese, jumping up on the bed and making a crying sound. When I could get my eyes open enough to look at her, I realized she had something in her mouth. It was the corner of an afghan she had brought from downstairs to put on the bed with me. Then she snuggled in to keep me company for the day.
Shotsie has a need to clean. If anything is left out of place anywhere in the house whether it’s a jacket or a towel, she brings it upstairs and it either goes by the dirty clothes basket or under the bed.
For a while, a friend’s daughter lived with me and this child was not exactly neat. She left her stuff all over the house. In addition, most of the time, her room looked like a cyclone hit it. No matter how much I pleaded with her to keep her things picked up, she constantly dropped her clothes right where she took them off. One day, I heard her grumping away at someone about leaving her things alone. As there was no one else in the house at the time, I couldn’t imagine who she was speaking to. Upon further investigation I found that she was griping at the cat.
There stood Shotsie in the middle of the room with a t-shirt in her mouth. I watched her as she ran down the hallway dragging that shirt and under my bed she went. Checking under the bed, I found quite a stash of this girl’s clothing. It appeared that each time she left something on the floor, Shotsie felt it was her personal responsibility to pick it up and put it away.
Feeling that Shotsie perhaps needed a pal or a playmate to keep her occupied so that she wouldn’t have the need to become the cleaning lady, I got another Burmese kitten. This little guy was a champagne Burmese and quite light in color so I named him Brut. Once I brought him home, Shotsie took total control of his upbringing. She taught Brut where the cat box and the food were and that he shouldn’t scratch on the furniture. Each time he would start to scratch, she would give him a swat. She demonstrated the use of the scratching post.
I bought him a few small stuffed toys to play with and before long I noticed that he was taking the toys from upstairs to the food bowl downstairs. Shotsie had taught him to feed his babies, and so it began every morning the toys go downstairs to the food bowl and when Shotsie decides they have had their fill or spent enough time in the food bowl, then she and Brut bring them back upstairs to the toy box one at a time.
The more toys they get, the more work they do. Every morning each little stuffed chicken, duck, turkey, cat and dog go down to the food bowl and every afternoon they come back upstairs.
Now that she has him trained to feed the babies and pick up the miscellaneous things around the house, she seems to have taken an interest in a new profession. As my assistant works at my home, Shotsie has taken charge of watching the woman work. Each time this woman prints a document and Shotsie hears the printer start, she immediately jumps up on the table next to it and makes sure the paper comes out of the machine properly. Each time she hears the paper shredder, she runs to check out what is getting shredded.
Now, if we could only teach her to type!
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I can see the picture of where I am going and the road I’m taking to get there. I paint my own picture of how it will be. My life is my masterpiece. I am more than enough!
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