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Plan in color to increase your focus & productivity

Do you plan in color? Color coding your plans is more than making your calendar look organized and pretty. Used effectively, it can be one of your best strategies when it comes to executing those colorful plans!  And yes, a plan is different than a strategy. While I could give you a whole lesson on…

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The 3 Shifts You Need To Build Momentum

Is your goal-getting feeling a bit stagnant, stuck, or less than stellar lately? Well, good news, friend! There are 3 shifts you can make in order to build yourself some goal-getting momentum. Planning, plotting, and pursuing your course is one thing, but I’ve got 3 different “p’s” for you to ponder today. How’s that for…

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How to bring a mostly dead dream back to life

Bet you’re pretty intrigued aren’t ya? And probably not even wondering if you have a mostly dead dream, let alone, how to bring it back to life. Most don’t think of our dreams in terms of being alive or dead, and certainly not in terms of it being a mostly dead dream. Ah, but there…

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How to put the POWER back into your hours

If you’ve been a fan, follower, or fellow student of all things related to self-development, you are no stranger to the term, power hours. And in case you are not so familiar with this go-to time management hack, it’s essentially setting aside an hour for specifically assigned tasks. I have a lot to say about…

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How to make progress, not just plan for it

Plans, strategies, goals, systems and habits. You need them all to make progress in your faith, your life and your business. But how do you move past just the plan for your potential progress and actually make it? In this post we are going to explore the usual go-tos when it comes to goal setting…

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5 Lessons Learned in 5 Years of Business

I’d like to share five lessons I’ve learned along the way in my five years of being in business. As I think about the fall season winding down and winter quickly approaching, I’m reminded of how quickly the seasons in my business have and still are ever changing. Five years ago I never would have…

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Are You Living An Unapologetic Life?

The word, unapologetic, literally just came to mind as I sat with my planner open looking at the thoughts I had written. Both coherent and random words, in the appropriately titled Brain Dump section. Am I living an unapologetic life? My first instinct was to look for the biblical meaning of the word. That may…

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Better Life Adventures Are Ahead – Maybe?

Adventure We all say we love a good adventure, but do we really? If we’re truly honest with ourselves, and others for that matter, it would be more accurate to say, we love to choose our own adventure.  As a kid I loved reading those types of books. Remember those? You’d go to your school’s…

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