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Living outside the lines

For almost three years, I have embraced the concept of not only planning {outside the lines} but also living — a gently ordering my private world — ever-so-splendidly outside the lines! While it was a wee bit disconcerting as first — I consider to be one of my very best life-changes. Look at life through [...]

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Why freelancers {and creAtives} cannot keep a daily schedule

Ever wonder why checklists, calendars and daily schedules don’t work for you? Perhaps you have even parked yourself at the corner of Discovery and Realization in hopes of learning why daily schedules seem to be a recipe for hair-pulling frustration and emotional dead-ends. Well, I started a list! Despite 25 years of consulting, listening and [...]

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Knowing what you want

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want or you don’t want it intensely enough. ~Frank Crane I have a swirled response to that idea. Because sometimes knowing what you want becomes a work-in-progress, and the passionate intensity with which you pursue it is indeed {enough}. You simply are not “there” [...]

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Freelance Schedules

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. ~Norman Vincent Peale Yep. I used the “s” word; the dreaded linear tool creAtives typically love to live without. However, the road to distraction and lost clients are paved with a freelancer’s good intentions! So … how about we accomplish this task creAtively? [...]

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Country Drives

Coastal beaches and rocky mountains have their natural, paradisal appeal … But my home state offers its own unique varieties of paradise.  Tall grass prairies are one of the many scenic views and natural habitats of Oklahoma. When those fields are converted to farm land, they host a favorite view of mine: Wheat fields — [...]

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Planning in Color Time

As a right brain dominant thinker, creAtive planning is something I have always done — I simply didn’t compile notes about it until 2008! I began to track my optimum hours of productivity {and creativity} — and to collect information pertaining to creAtive ways to organize my days. If you are interested in joining in [...]

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Routines

Routines are about incorporating patterns and customized blocks of times within our days.  Despite their lack of a positive “first-impression” for most creAtives — when we utilize routines, we find ourselves equipped to move through crazy-busy times and impossible deadlines, and carve out time for our creAtive adventures and restorative quiet times. When the days begin [...]

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Counting Days {Day 100}

Today is day 100 of 2010. There remain 265 days until the end of the year. As an experienced visual thinker — I see this is as an opportunity! An opportunity for a start line; I had been looking for one! A place to {begin again} — for “do overs.” To let myself off the [...]

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Pressing the Play Button

A friend called while I was watching a movie recently; I pressed the pause button on the DVD remote control and proceeded to chat and catch up with the details of what was going on in her life. After we had covered that, I updated her regarding my own life adventures. By the time I [...]

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How to develop a vision {creatively}

Lingo for strategic planning became a part of my vocabulary while I was in graduate school for my MBA. Incorporating new terms for existing habits is one of my quirky traits. Terms serve me by providing clarity and boundaries to the wavy lines of my thoughts. For example, although we don’t go around claiming to [...]

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