“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~C.S. Lewis
via The Difference Between Fulfillment and Achievement | Tiny Buddha.
Make a New Ending
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson
via Make a New Ending.
Reaching Out for Help When The Road Gets Rough
“Pain is not a sign of weakness, but bearing it alone is a choice to grow weak.” ~Lori Deschene
via Reaching Out for Help When The Road Gets Rough | Tiny Buddha.
5 Ways to Validate Yourself: Be Part of Your Support System
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ~Louise L. Hay
Full story at: 5 Ways to Validate Yourself: Be Part of Your Support System | Tiny Buddha.
10 Best New Products That People Don’t Know About
Get more here: 10 Best New Products That People Don’t Know About.
When life falls apart
Gemma Stone writes this about our mutual friend Farhana Dhalla:
Sometimes a crisis is a summons to reconfigure our entire lives.
Even though we are resilient creatures, we are still easily hurt. There are times when living hurts. A lot.
There is purpose in pain; often life falls apart exactly when it needs to be rebuilt.
Our stories become burdensome & false.
Our defenses become exhausting & crumble.
When we are no longer able to maintain the stories and defenses that protect us, we can easily dissolve to bits.
When our lives fall apart, it’s the perfect opportunity to build something newer, truer, fuller.
When Farhana’s life crumbled, she used it as a catalyst for transformation. She courageously ventured within herself, found truth, and emerged glowing with love and light.
And that is why I rely on to her to pull me along when I’m dragging my feet and to shine some light when all I see is darkness.
Thank You for Leaving Me is being released today. Farhana’s story is a heartfelt, refreshingly real account of her journey through divorce.
If you’re moving through the end of a relationship, struggling with heartache, or questioning your relationship patterns, I’m confident this book will be helpful. If you’re hesitant, check out this video. If this sounds like the medicine you need, head over here to pick up her book.
Kudos, Farhana! For the book and a life well lived in the face of overwhelming hardship…
In order to be found in the ‘Zero Moment of Truth’, there are two main activities you need to master; FINDING and SHARING great content. Another way of putting it is…
- Deepening your expertise
- Documenting your expertise
Here’s how I do it [By the way, there is a Mac version at about 17:00 but you need to understand the principles in the Windows version. Sorry, Mac boys and girls!]:
Here is the mindmap of my screencast:
Here are the direct links to the tools I use in the screencast:
http://storify.com/e1evation/my-most-important-curation-tools
By the way, this post and this post might also give you some insight as to how I apply Getting Things Done [GTD] principles to this process. Comment below or connect with me so we can talk about how this applies to you and your situation…
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Heidi Cohen shares this valuable tidbit today:
About nine out of ten B2B marketers use social media to distribute their content marketing according to recent research by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs. On average these marketers use five social media sites to spread their content marketing more broadly through social sharing.
For B2B marketers, this requires that your content marketing be formatted to work well on the social media platforms where you place it and that you encourage readers to share it. (Here’s a chart showing how to leverage different types of content marketing across social media.)
Respondents cited fourteen different social media platforms that they used to distribute content. (Here’s additional research and analysis from the content marketing survey.) Half of the social media venues were used by over 20% of respondents.
Source: Social Media: Where to Distribute B2B Content Marketing [Research/Chart] | Heidi Cohen
Go to the source if you’d like to have the rest of Heidi’s insights – come back here if you’re not sure how to put them into practice!
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30 Ways to Improve Your Mood When You’re Feeling Down
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.” ~ Anais Nin
Full story at: 30 Ways to Improve Your Mood When You’re Feeling Down | Tiny Buddha.
When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed: Create a To-Live List
“The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself” ~Mark Messie
Full story at: When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed: Create a To-Live List | Tiny Buddha.
Jeff Bullas has some interesting thoughts on how to become a better blogger:
Blogging plus Social Media
The rise of social media has allowed bloggers to display and market themselves and their content globally without having to pay a cent to a newspaper, television mogul or to the mass media elite.
Bloggers that were previously undiscovered became global brands on topics as diverse as food, fashion and technology. Marketing your blog was no longer restricted to building an RSS or email subscription list.
Publishing and marketing has been democratized. Freedom to express yourself globally is available in seconds and it is also mobile.
The age of the printing press is now threatened after 573 years. Print media marketing has now been surpassed by digital media for the first time in history.
So How do you Become a Better Blogger?
It is quite simple really.
- Blog late or early
- Blog while travelling
- Blog on holidays
- Blog even when your friends think you’re mad
- Blog on the bus
- Blog on the plane
- Blog when the boss isn’t watching
- Blog when your partner nags you to stop blogging
- Blog when your passion has taken a holiday
- Blog when you think no one cares about your blog
Get more here: 10 Simple Tips to Becoming a Better Blogger | Jeffbullas’s Blog
Jeff has a great perspective on the importance of blogging. Comment below or connect with me so we can talk about how this applies to you and your situation…
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Stanford Smith has some great ideas on produce blog content:
WordPress rocks because it makes it point-and-click easy to share your content – any content. The default content type is text-based but you can do much more.
You can:
- Record yourself talking about a subject and upload the audio.
- Video record yourself discussing your topic and upload the video
- Publish illustrations, graphics, and captioned photos. Use a photo gallery template to show off your work.
- Use Google Hangouts to record an interview and link to it from your blog.
- Use Storify to create curated stories taken from blog posts, tweets and links
- Record your screen with Screenflow (Mac) or Camtasia (PC) while you demonstrate software, teach a skill, or walk through a presentation. Upload your content to your blog, Slideshare,Scribd, and YouTube.
- Have someone interview you and upload the recording. This technique works well if you get tongue-tied talking to a camera.
The point is that there are many ways to create interesting content without writing. Find what you feel the most comfortable with and go with it. Focus on your preferred content creation method until you master it.
Get the rest here: Blog Mastery #16: 7 Ways to Blog Without Writing – Pushing Social
These are all tools that I use liberally on this blog. Comment below or connect with me so we can talk about how this applies to you and your situation…
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Timing…
Melody Beattie writes:
Wait until the time is right. It is self-defeating to postpone or procrastinate; it is also self-defeating to act too soon, before the time is right.
Sometimes, we panic and take action out of fear. Sometimes, we take untimely action for revenge or because we want to punish someone. We act or speak too soon as a way to control or force someone to action. Sometimes, we take action too soon to relieve feelings of discomfort or anxiety about how a situation will turn out.
An action taken too soon can be as ineffective as one taken too late. It can backfire and cause more problems than it solves. Usually, when we wait until the time is right – sometimes only a matter of minutes or hours – the discomfort dissolves, and we’re empowered to accomplish what we need to do.
In recovery, we are learning to be effective.
Our answers will come. Our guidance will come. Pray. Trust. Wait. Let go. We are being led. We are being guided.
Today, I will let go of my need to control by waiting until the time is right. When the time is right, I will take action.
Source: Just For Today Meditations » Daily Recovery Readings – November 12, 2012
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