Writing.

Think for a moment about all the ways writing touches your business.

Quite a bit, eh?

Writing is a skill that you would do well to master.

Right?

Or you can become another statistic and just write so so — and really I do not want that for you!

Today — if you are not writing, you are sinking faster than a rock.  To be sexy to your audience, you must write and connect with them. Engage them. Rope them in like cattle.

Just like yourself — when you read or listen to something – it either resonates with you or it becomes road kill.  It could stir up some creativity with that immaculate mind of yours.  THAT IS THE TIME. RIGHT THERE!

GO WRITE!

When you are inspired — capture it.  Put those fingers on that keyboard — voice your opinion, comment on information, and articulate fresh insights.

I carry around a small voice recorder and look like an idiot, but WHO CARES. It’s My Life — I can do what I want!

Face your fears and swing your shirt around like a helicopter:

1. Just start. Write often. You will get better every single time!

2. Become a student. Find copy that sells — scan the headlines — how are they talking to their audience — how are they influencing other — KEEP LEARNING!

3. Hour of Power! Allocate 50 minutes a day for **reading**listening to positive information i.e podcasts, audio books, or a webinar**write what you are grateful for, what you have learned, who you have helped, what challenges you, or even what you look forward to**prepare for tomorrow!

Before you know it, you will have enough material to create a product that can be sold online for additional income! CHA-CHING!

Still a bit stressed about writing?

Stop it!

This is not a college assignment where you wait until the last minute and then you turn what you think is your best work! Make it fun, make it cool!

Try this:

First -- write the way you talk.  **I hope my high school English teacher is not reading this**  If you record yourself talking and write it down, you have the start of a pretty good blog.  Who cares about sentence structure, grammar, and those other scary school assignments.

Just speak your words in short sentences.

Use simple words. Just talk.

Second -- Write as if you were only talking to ONE person.  Regardless of how many people will read it — this makes it feel conversational. Ask rhetorical questions, then answer them — just as if your best friend was sitting across from you drinking your morning coffee.

Third -- SHOW YOUR PERSONALITY! I can not express this enough.  It can be scary — just remember there is ONLY one YOU! Be yourself.  People who read what you write will know it is from YOU, even if they didn’t know when they started reading it.  Refer back to  First!

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Fourth — Tell a story! As annoying as — “That one time at band camp…” was — we listened because she was telling a story.  Story telling is WAY more fun to read than boring, information, that makes my eyes fall over in 2.2 seconds.  Agree?

On the fence?

What are you waiting for?

Be free! Write till your fingers bleed!!!

From my fingertips to your eyes

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How many of you made those New’s Year’s Resolutions?

Were you pressured? It is March 1st – how many of those have you completed or are even still working toward!

Let’s re-evaluate!

Two key things to do first – look at all the pluses and minuses of 2011 – use this as a checkpoint to measure against the 2012– each year should be growing exponentially and this documentation will provide that.  After you have written it all down, fold it up and place into an envelope to open up next year at this time.

Just a little tidbit about SANG – I like lists, so I shall list here!

Four keys to achieving your 2012 goals:

1. Make Clear and Concise goals
1. Car – not clear and concise. What kind? What color? 2 dr or 4 dr?
2. Home – where? How many rooms? Area? Budget?
3. Suit – what kind? Color?
2. Must Set Priorities
1. Car or home? Which is first in line of priority?
3. Detailed Plan of Action – you must know what actions need to be done to accomplish your goals
4. Concentrate single minded on the highest tasks towards your goals – after you have the clear and concise goals, set your priorities, created the detailed plan, you now need to concentrate on the highest task and make it happen!

2011 was an interesting year.

Have you ever noticed every year, say around January, the year starts off great and you are full of vigor and resolutions?. Damn society for creating resolutions and brainwashing everyone.

Same here. I was one of those people until I realized that when I looked back, I had the SAME DAMN “resolutions” every year and by December 31st – said resolutions were not accomplished. WTF?

So the word for 2011 – STAGNANT

STAGNANT MOVEMENTS

• Being a mother. This one is first and foremost because I had to make some very heart-wrenching decisions. Having that feeling of being a mother that could not handle certain situations, a mother who failed at mother hood, a mother who could not have possibly raise her child to be this way.  Yes, no matter who told me I was not a bad mother, my heart said otherwise and sometimes still does
• Love. I found love in 2010 and I am the happiest I have been in all of XX years of life. We mesh. We connect. We get one another. We defy all odds. More to come…
• Work. Work. Work. This is the MOST stagnant of them all. I was comfortable. I felt “safe”. Because I created the position where I was contrary to popular belief.  I worked when I wanted, went in when I wanted, worked from home when needed, but the work I was fucking awesome.  I made the paper look good. This was my downfall. My strength was my weakness
• Stepping out. The desire to work from home, travel with my Honey, and do what what I want, when I wanted, where I wanted and work in pajamas all day was in my heart, but because of said WORK and my comfort, I forgot to step OUT of the comfort zone. So what happened. I lallygagged to get it off the ground
• Family. However important you make NOT think it is. It is. But I discovered that even family shoots down your dreams. Family is harsh. Family is love. Family is smaller than I thought with a family of 5. Oh how I miss my mother!

So what happens in 2012 (February)

• I write
• I build
• I conquer
• No more stress
• I let go of my fears and set my own sail
• Run. Because I realized that when I do not get up and run in the morning, my day is blown and slow moving
• Connect and Collaborate with other AWESOME people
• Sit back, sip of my coffee, and create magic from nothing
• Travel more places (I shall start with my sister’s wedding in Grand Cayman in May – please don’t be jealous)
• Learn to understand that I am not SUPERWOMAN and I need a maid (because I hate domesticness)
• Nurture the relationships I have
• Continue to grow at being awesome

January has been historical. Change. Honesty. Heart. Movement. Taking a leap. Emotional Roller Coaster. Lost friendships. Anxiety. Stress. Happiness. And then my friend sent me this:

“We’re coining a new “age-old” adage: if you can get through January, you can get through anything. It may sound dramatic, but the truth is that January is trying on every level. Physically, you’re forced by society and the media to take stock of your physique and vow a hollow promise to make it better in the new year. Emotionally, you’ve just plowed through the most family-laden time of year only to realize that the light at the end of that tunnel only lasts until 4 PM because we live in the land of apocalyptic winter darkness. It’s hard. January is just plain hard.”

Thus I give January the middle finger and move on.

And that is my friends…what is going on around here. 

What does your 2012 look like?

From my fingertips to your eyes