Trimming Down for the Summer? - Life Coaching
I know, I know, the most important kind of beauty one can possess is inner magnificence, but hey were only human and looks do count to a certain extent. I for one have been exercising and trying to eat right for almost two decades, so imagine my ... [... more]
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Could Mentoring Be For You? - Life Coaching
Children who have mentors are less likely to drop out of school, abuse drugs or alcohol and participate in other risky behaviors says Alyse Rome, the Founder and Executive Director of Amazing Kids! an organization dedicated to inspiring ... [... more]
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Take a Leap of Faith - Life Coaching
One fine spring morning I woke up with a vision. As clear as day, I could see my by-line within the pages of Time magazine. And I wondered if when I began to write for the big national magazines-as in my vision-would I spell out my whole name ... [... more]
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More To-Do List Tricks - Life Coaching
Are you working on a project with lots of moving parts that you need to keep track of? It's not complicated enough for Microsoft Project, but not simple enough to rely on your memory, so what do you do? I'm in this situation right now. As a ... [... more]
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Discover Your Self -Confidence Advantage - Life Coaching
When I was eighteen years old and a freshman in college, my self-esteem as a writer was so low that even as a journalism student who had been writing poetry for years I wouldn't apply for a position with the school's newspaper. A year or so ... [... more]
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Affirmations - Life Coaching
After I'd read the leading sentence to my latest news article for the 15th time, I realized something. In order to be a writer you've got to be able to tolerate repetition. I'm sure some writers can come up with a great lead sentence-or the hook ... [... more]
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Controlling your Spending - Life Coaching
It is so easy for us to get in over our heads with our spending. Credit cards are easy to obtain, especially when you pay your bills on time. Companies will entice you to keep charging until you can't keep up and then they will make your life ... [... more]
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Lead with Your Strengths - Life Coaching
Lara Vapnyar in first novel, Memoirs of a Muse, describes a scene where the story's narrator, Tanya, opens up a brand new journal and suddenly becomes shy "when faced with an empty page." And as I read this I realized, with all of my fears, ... [... more]
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Tap Into the Wonders of Your Imagination - Life Coaching
Last week, California based family therapist and short story writer, Anjuelle Floyd shared with Bella her views on using writing for self-discovery. This week we're talking to Anjuelle, who recently released a new book Keeper of ... [... more]
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Use Your Free Time Productively - Life Coaching
Over a four year period from 2001-05, when I commuted by subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan every weekday, I always made sure I packed my bag full of goodies. A bit of a manuscript I was working on, a newspaper, a story I was critiquing for one of ... [... more]
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Self Definition - Life Coaching
Like many people, I am a bundle of contradictions. My first love is romantic fiction. I've been reading romance since I was an adolescent sneaking my mother's books. While romance is a passion, my natural tendency is to write personal experience ... [... more]
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Time Management - Life Coaching
In a recent interview I was asked what advice I can give to those who desire to be writers/editors. In addition to the same advice I normally give, which most writers give-to read, read read-this time I added something. I think one of the major ... [... more]
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