Self Improvement & Motivation

Confident Writing

I discovered Joanna Young’s blog, Confident Writing, while cruising Blog Catalog. I really want to get serious about freelance writing in the year 2008 and I believe with Joanna’s motivating and extremely helpful blog I can accomplish this. She is a writing coach who offers some great tips on how to be confident in your [...]


TED

I learned about this remarkable website and blog, heck, it’s more of a movement, from Dosh Dosh. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. It is a group of successful people who started gathering in Monterey, California to discuss, well, technology, entertainment and design, and it has turned into what looks like a global phenomena.
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Taking Stock

This is the time of year when we begin to look back, reflecting on the things we have or have not accomplished and making plans for the future. It’s natural, and its necessary. Counting our victories as well as our loses provides a balanced view of ourselves and prompts us to make changes that will [...]


Spiritual Healing

There is nothing more important, in my opinion, than the continued renewal of the spirit. Sometimes spiritual healing is the only thing that can help us solve our problems. But did you know that there are actually classes you can take an graduate from that teach you how to heal yourself and to help others [...]


Perfection Does Not Exist

I often refer to post that Maki at Dosh Dosh makes and that is because he is one of my favorite bloggers. With this post, Why You Shouldn’t Be a Perfectionist he has very possibly moved up to the top of my favorite bloggers list! Why? Because he must have read my mind. So many [...]


What I Learned From Sports

Robert over at Middle Zone Musings has started a group writing project and the subject matter is so compelling that I couldn’t help but join in. Robert ask the question, what did I learn from the world of sports? There are so many things I have learned from the world of sports that I could [...]


Making the Best of Being Single During the Holidays

With Thanksgiving less than a week away and Christmas just around the corner my thoughts turn to family, as do most of ours. But there are many people across the world who have no family or their families are too far away for them to be with during the holidays. There are also those, like [...]


Improving Your Life

As most of you know I am a big on self improvement. I believe it is our duty to ourselves to be the best we can be, to grow and learn from every experience we have, whether positive or negative. Life is a journey and I wanted to tell you about something that can make [...]


Being Honest About Fear

I was reading Successful Blog today where Liz Strauss has this hilarious post about blogger fear. She did something similar to what a bunch of us did a few weeks ago, using reverse psychology to make her point. Great post, Liz. There are also some links to other post from the B5Media channel on fear [...]


Saving the Environment One Blog at a Time

Today is Blog Action Day! Already over 15,000 blogs are participating in this effort to help educate readers on what they can do individually to save our planet. I found this post at Freelance Folder, (I wanted to tell you about what a great blog Freelance Folder is for freelance writers too!) that covers some [...]