Is Your Writing Holding You Back Online? Five Quick Ways to Improve

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This is a guest post by Ali Luke. She is a writer and writing coach, and blogs about writing on her site Aliventures. You can find her on Twitter as @aliventures, where she’s always happy to answer questions about writing. Although podcasts and videos are becoming more and more popular online, we still live in [...]

10 Free Gifts That Can Change Your Life

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It’s gift giving time again and you have probably spent hours at the shopping centers, malls, and online stores buying gifts for everyone on your list. But what about yourself? After all this hard work, you deserve a gift or two for you. Well you are in luck. I have compiled a list of 10 [...]

Making Time Stand Still

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Have you ever wanted to make time stand still. To stop everything around you and have utter silence. To look around and have everything stopped… no cars honking, no TV’s blaring, no children crying. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a switch that you could turn time off with. You just flip it and everything [...]

Weekly Highlights

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This was our fourth theme based week on Success Begins Today. The theme was metaphor, but it really should have been about blogging frequency. The week ended with an important creative decision on my part. Theme: Metaphor The week started out with a fundamental argument on blogging. It boiled down to this. Should I blog [...]

An Experiment In Blogging

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For the last week I’ve struggled with an ongoing debate among the bloggers that I follow. It boils down to a simple question… Should I put up a blog post every day? It sounds simple enough, but there are powerful arguments on both sides. Here are the competing voices Pro: Popular bloggers like Chris Brogan [...]

Adding Contrast To Your Speech

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In my last post, I talked about how to create and give your first speech. While primarily aimed at Toastmasters, giving their icebreaker speech, the 7 concepts apply to almost all presentations. Today I want to expand on those tenets and add a very important one… Contrast. Contrast allows us to differentiate from the good [...]